Born in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, character actor Gerard McSorley has played a lot of bad guys during his prolific acting career. He started with a theater background working with Jim Sheridan at the Project Theater. In 1981 he joined Dublin's Abbey Players, Ireland's national theater company. After a small role in the TV movie S.O.S. Titanic, he made his film debut in Neil Jordan's debut film, Danny Boy. He went on to appear in Jordan's later film work Michael Collins and The Butcher Boy. In 1993 he appeared in In the Name of the Father, directed by Jim Sheridan. He would continue to work with the director at his Hell's Kitchen production company in Dublin on the films Some Mother's Son, The Boxer, Agnes Browne, and Bloody Sunday. He was also in Atom Egoyan's Felicia's Journey, Alan Parker's Angela's Ashes, and Thaddeus O'Sullivan's Ordinary Decent Criminal. As a voice actor, he narrated the film Dancing at Lughnasa as well as the television documentary series In Search of Ancient Ireland. He's also worked extensively on Irish television. In 2003 he can be seen as the psychotic gangster John Gilligan in Joel Schumacher's Veronica Guerin.
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War Horse
Actor |
2011 | |||
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Robin Hood
Actor |
2010 | |||
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Blood Creek
Actor |
2009 | |||
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Hesitation
Actor |
2007 | |||
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Middletown
Actor |
2006 | |||
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Tell it to the Fishes
Actor |
2006 | |||
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The Departed
Actor |
2006 | |||
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The Front Line
Actor |
2006 | |||
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Omagh
Actor |
2004 | |||
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Rory O'Shea Was Here
Actor |
2004 | |||
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Dead Bodies
Actor |
2003 | |||
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Veronica Guerin
Actor |
2003 | |||
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Bloody Sunday
Actor |
2002 | |||
| 2002 | ||||
| 2002 | ||||
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| 2002 | ||||
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Agnes Browne
Actor |
1999 | |||
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Felicia's Journey
Actor |
1999 | |||
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Ordinary Decent Criminal
Actor |
1999 | |||
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The Boxer
Actor |
1997 | |||
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The Serpent's Kiss
Actor |
1997 | |||
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Michael Collins
Actor |
1996 | |||
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Some Mother's Son
Actor |
1996 | |||
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Braveheart
Actor |
1995 | |||
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Nothing Personal
Actor |
1995 | |||
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An Awfully Big Adventure
Actor |
1994 | |||
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Widows' Peak
Actor |
1994 | |||
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Act of Betrayal
Actor |
1988 | |||
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Taffin
Actor |
1988 | |||
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Angel
Actor |
1982 | |||
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S.O.S. Titanic
Actor |
1979 |
