Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)

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Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)

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Aidan Quinn

The Cast

AIDAN QUINN
Born in Chicago, the Irish-American actor Aidan Quinn has been working in the film business for over 20 years. In over 43 films he has played the baddie, the goodie, often romantic lead and all places in between. Made his acting debut at the age of eight when his father persuaded him to star in the local Illinois production of Waiting for Godot. In his early teens Quinn moved back to Dublin where he entertained the idea of becoming a writer then an actor but he returned to Chicago and the building sites where his acting career then began with a local theatre.

Song For A Raggy Boy is his third film in Ireland, in a year, following on from Bruce Beresford's Evelyn with Pierce Brosnan and Benedict Arnold.

His other films to date include his head turning performance in Desperately Seeking Susan, with Madonna, Reckless, Stolen Summer, Song Catcher, Wes Craven's Music of The Heart, Neil Jordan's In Dreams, Practical Magic, The Assignment, Michael Collins, Al Pacino's Looking For Richard, Haunted, Michael Apted's Blink, with Madeleine Stowe, Legends of The Fall with Brad Pitt, Avalon, Stakeout and The Mission. He produced and starred in This Is My Father, putting together the finance The experience was very much a family one with his younger brother Paul as writer and director, his brother Declan was the DOP and his sister Marian had a small acting part.

His television work includes A & E's Dark Eagle, Hallmark's The Prince & The Pauper, Two of US, All My Sons and An Early Frost.

IAIN GLEN
Born in Edinburgh, Iain Glen trained at RADA where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal in 1986. He is well known for his work as a theatre actor and recently starred on the London stage at the National, with Glenn Close in Trevor Nunn's adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire. He received major critical acclaim for his part in Sam Mendes' The Blue Room with Nicole Kidman, receiving an Olivier nomination for Best Actor. Hi other theatre performances include Martin Guerre for which he received an Olivier nomination, The Broken Heart at the RSC and Henry V at the Royal Shakespeare Company, receiving an Evening Standard nomination for Best Actor. King Lear at the Royal Court, the Kenneth Branagh directed Coriolanus, at the Chichester Festival Theatre and Hamlet at the Bristol Old Vic for which he won the Ian Charleson Award and Edward II, directed by Nicholas Hytner at the Royal Exchange.

His film and television work includes the recent Spy Sorge, directed by Masahiro Shinoda, My Name Was Sabina Spielrein, Impact, Darkness, Tomb Raider, Gabriel & Me, Silent Scream for which he won the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear for Best Actor. The TV series Trial and Retribution, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead and Gorillas In The Mist.

MARC WARREN
Marc Warren's television work includes, State of Play, BBC Films' No Night is Too Long, Clocking Off III, The Bombmaker, Men Only, Spielberg's award winning Band of Brothers, Black Cab, The Vice, Oliver Twist, Wycliffe, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles - Series III , appearances in A Touch of Frost, Prime Suspect VI, The Bill, Between The Lines, Heartbeat, and Casualty. He won the Royal Television Society's Best Actor Award in 200.

His film roles include photographer Rankin's Perfect, Film Four's Principles of Lust, Revengers Tragedy, Al's Lads, Dad Savage and Shine.

His Theatre work is wide ranging with Clubland at The Royal Court, Privates on Parade and East, at Leicester's Haymarket and roles in To Kill A Mockingbird, Nicholas Hytner's Volpone at the Almeida, and a national UK tour of Kes.

DUDLEY SUTTON
Dudley's many film credits include the recently released This Filthy Earth, Sally Potter's Orlando, The Devils, The Rainbow for Ken Russell, Fellini's Casanova and The Big Sleep for Michael Winner.

His numerous television credits include Paradise Heights, Sweeney, Fun At The Funeral Parlour and Down To Earth for the BBC. The Way We Live Now, Victoria and Albert, Randall and Hopkirk Deceased and five series of Lovejoy.

His theatre credits include Romeo and Juliet, After The Fire, Harry and Me, The Curse of The Starving Class, Strictly Entre Nous, Hangover Square, Macbeth at The Old Vic, The Hostage and Entertaining Mr Sloane at London's Wyndhams Theatre and Broadway. One More River, A Whistle In The Dark and Incident at Vichy.

ALAN DEVLIN
Alan Devlin is a winner of the West End Theatre Awards (Olivier Award) for his portrayal of Hogan in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten in London's West End. He has appeared with the Abbey Theatre Company on many occasions including The Power of Darkness, The Shadow of a Gunman and The Invisible Man. He appeared in Paris with The Abbey in She Stoops to Conquer and Borstal Boy as part of Jean Louis Barrault's Theatre des Nations at the Odeon Theatre. He has worked at The Gate, Olympia and Gaiety Theatre and all major Dublin theatres.

His film work includes The Long Good Friday, The Playboys, Neil Jordan's Angel and The War of the Buttons, Aisling Walsh's Sinners. Alan most recently played the role of 'Simon' in Ulysses for Stalheim Productions. His extensive television work includes, District Nurse, Remington Steel, My Son, My Son, The Crezz, Crossfire, The Year of the French, and was seen as Tidgh in RTE's long running soap opera Fair City. He has directed in repertory theatre in Britian and has worked as Assistant to Karl Francis, Head of Drama BBC Wales. In 1998 / 99 he directed Out of the Heaven's in Showers, by John Doorty, a musical play on the life of Micho Russell, the traditional musician from Clare which toured in the West of Ireland and was produced at the Galway Town Hall Theatre.

STUART GRAHAM
Irish actor Stuart Graham has a long list of theatre credits that include, The Force of Change at The Royal Court, The Carthiginians at the Lyric Theatre Belfast, As The Beast Sleeps at Dublin's Abbey Theatre, In A Little World Of Our Own at the Donmar and the Abbey and The Silver Tassie at The Almeida. How Many Miles to Babylon, Great Expectations, Noises Off, Dockers, Hamlet, The Country Wife, Rebecca and The Tempest at The Lyric.

He has had television roles in Silent Witness, Outside the Rules, Charles McDougall's bloody Sunday documentary, Sunday, As The Beast Sleeps, The Sins, Cyclops, La Plante's The Governor and Michael Winterbottom's Love Lies Bleeding. And for film, Misery Harbour, Jim Sheridan's The Boxer, One Man's Hero, Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy and Michael Collins.

SIMONE BENDIX
Simone Bendix trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Her work includes, for television, A Many Splintered Thing, Life Support, Noah's Ark, Bugs, Taggart, The Crow Road, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Between The Lines and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

On Film, in Mary and Jesus for Hallmark Films, The Informant andThe Chronic Innocent. And for theatre, A Woman Alone, Aladdin and The Importance Of Being Earnest at the Bristol Old Vic

JOHN TRAVERS
13 year old John Travers, is from the New Lodge area in North Belfast, close to the city centre. His interest in acting had always been through films, but apart from primary school productions he had never been to a drama class. He was discovered via his local boxing club. Song For A Raggy Boy is his first acting role.

CHRIS NEWMAN
Dublin boy Chris Newman is 15 years old and studying drama. He has had roles in, concerts, RTE's Fair City, Bull Isand...Sketch for RTE, Fear and regular appearances on the Billy Barry Variety Show. Song For A Raggy Boy is his first film.

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