Patrick O'Kane

Patrick OKane is an Irish actor who was born in 1965 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He attended St Malachys grammar school where he discovered a love of acting and then attended Manchester University, graduating with double honours in Drama and English. This was followed by training at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He has been part of the companies of the Royal National Theatre, where he appeared in The Playboy of the Western World and Peer Gynt, and the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he played the title role in Macbeth. At the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, he gave an eye-catching, triumphant performance in the title role of Christopher Marlowes Doctor Faustus in 2010.In Londons West End, he has appeared in War Horse. He played John Proctor in the Lyric Theatre, Belfasts production of Arthur Millers The Crucible, opening the theatres new performance space in April 2011 to rave reviews and receiving a nomination for best actor in the Irish Theatre Awards for his performance.In October 2011 OKane appeared to great acclaim in the lead role of 16 Possible Glimpses at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/event/16_possible_glimpses/In May 2012 He appeared as J. Bruce Ismay in Owen McCaffertys Titanic (Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry, 1912) at the newly opened MAC arts venue in Belfast and will be performing in Owen McCaffertys play Quietly in the Abbey Theatre in October 2012.In addition to his extensive stage work, OKane has appeared in the movies ( most recently in Prometheus) and on television in many parts including Game of Thrones, seasons two and three of The Borgias, series nine of the popular BBC New Tricks and the upcoming BBC detective series The Fall set in Northern Ireland.He won a Nesta Fellowship in 2005 and has released a book Actors Voices a series of conversations with modern actors( Oberon Press 2012 )He has also been in season 3 of HBO series Game of Thrones, playing as the new face of Jaqen Hghar.

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