John Lynch

Known for: Acting
Born: December 26, 1961, Corrinshego, Northern Ireland, UK
Movies: 59

John Lynch (born 26 December 1961) is an Irish actor and novelist from Northern Ireland. He won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actor for the 1995 film Angel Baby. His other film appearances include Cal (1984), The Secret Garden (1993), In the Name of the Father (1993), Sliding Doors (1998), The Fall (2013–2016), Medici (2019), The Head (2020), and The Banishing (2021).

Lynch has also written two novels, Torn Water (2005) and Falling Out of Heaven (2010).

Best-Known Movies

7.9

In the Name of the Father

1993

6.3

The Watchers

2024

6.5

Sliding Doors

1998

7.4

The Secret Garden

1993

6.1

Black Death

2010

5.9

The Tournament

2009

7.6

Paul, Apostle of Christ

2018

6.0

Hardware

1990

6.0

Pilgrimage

2017

5.7

Möbius

2013

Filmography

2025	Sew Torn	Hudson Armitage
2024	The Watchers	Kilmartin
2023	Starting Tomorrow I'll Get Up Late
2021	Boys from County Hell	George Bogue
2021	The Banishing	Malachi
2020	Caravan	Sam
2018	Kissing Candice	Donal
2018	Paul, Apostle of Christ	Aquila
2017	Number One	Gary
2017	Upstream	Sean
2017	Pilgrimage	The Herbalist - Brother Ciaran
2017	Detour	Frank Malone
2016	Alleycats	Redman
2014	Scintilla	Powell
2013	Möbius	Joshua
2012	Private Peaceful	Sergeant Hanley
2011	Ghosted	Jack
2011	Night of the Hunt	Narrator (voice)
2010	13Hrs	McRae
2010	Black Death	Wolfstan
2010	Mo	Gerry Adams
2009	Holy Water	Tom Gaffney
2009	The Tournament	Gene Walker
2008	In Tranzit	Yakov
2007	The Yellow House	Paul Gaugin
2005	Lassie	Sam Carraclough
2005	Isolation	Dan
2004	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Captain Alvarado
2003	Alien Hunter	Dr. Michael Straub
2003	Conspiracy of Silence	Father Francis
2002	Evelyn	Senior Counsel Mr. Wolfe
2002	Puckoon	O'Brien
2001	The Seventh Stream	Tomas Dunhill
2000	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song	Sean O'Casey
2000	Best	George Best
1998	The Quarry	The Man
1998	Sliding Doors	Gerry
1997	This Is the Sea	Padhar McAliskey
1996	Nothing Personal	Liam
1996	Some Mother's Son	Bobby Sands
1996	Moll Flanders	Fielding
1995	Angel Baby	Harry
1994	Princess Caraboo	Amon McCarthy
1994	Words Upon the Window Pane	John Corbet
1994	The Secret of Roan Inish	Tadhg
1993	In the Name of the Father	Paul Hill
1993	The Secret Garden	Lord Archibald Craven
1992	Monkey Boy	Peter Carson
1992	The Railway Station Man	Damian Sweeney
1991	Edward II	Spencer
1991	Out of the Blue	Rudy
1990	Hardware	Shades
1990	1871	O'Brien
1990	Who Bombed Birmingham?	IRA man in cottage
1988	James Joyce's 'Ulysses'	Stephen Dedalus
1986	Waiting Tables
1984	Cal	Cal

Directing, Writing & Producing

2000	Best	Writer
1998	Night Train	Director

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