Jer O'Leary

Known for Acting

8/4/1945

Ireland

Biography

Jeremiah James Dominic O'Leary was born in Ireland. An actor known for My Left Foot (1989), Michael Collins (1996), In America (2002) and Game of Thrones. He was married to Eithne O'Brien.

Known For (26 credits)

5.1

Movie

Supervized

2019

Four aging superheroes in a retirement home in Ireland come together for one last hurrah.

Movie

The Tattoo

2017

A Holocaust survivor working in a New York funeral home in 1980 makes a life-changing discovery.

4.0

Movie

Banshee Blacktop

2016

A drifter is picked up by police in connection with the disappearance of a young couple on a remote, windswept island months before. But the drifter turns the table on their investigation and relates a tale of madness and the supernatural.

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Out of Here

2013

Ciaran is a passionate yet restless college dropout who has returned home to recession-struck Dublin after a year of travelling. Broke and living with his parents, struggling to re-connect with the ex-girlfriend that he left behind and the friends and social scene that have moved on without him, Ciaran questions whether he should stay or go - and comes to realize the difference between being stuck and being present

5.9

Movie

Milo

2012

Milo, an isolated 10-year-old boy with 'sensitive skin', lives a life rigidly controlled by his father. Sparked by his first friendship, he runs away from home to attend the school camping trip - but never arrives. He falls into the hands of an ageing criminal couple, with whom he enjoys pure freedom from constraint - until he learns the shocking truth about his skin condition. Filled with doubt about his father's love for him, Milo must try to come to terms with who he really is.

7.0

Movie

This Must Be the Place

2011

A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.

8.5

Game of Thrones

2011

Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.

4.8

Movie

Savage

2009

An exploration of masculinity and violence. A story of obsession and revenge, as a man tries to come to terms with a brutal, random attack and its consequences.

6.8

Movie

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

2005

A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.

5.4

Movie

Turning Green

2005

Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced to live with his three Irish aunts. Displaced and depressed, he longs for a way to make it back to America. One lucky weekend in London, James discovers pornography and, desperate for cash, he decides to sell them back in Ireland. His success spreads wildly. After finding a possible way home, he must decide where home really is, and finds that one's place in the world is all a state of mind.

7.2

Movie

In America

2003

A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

2.0

Movie

Headrush

2003

Headrush is a crime comedy about two disillusioned youths, struggling through a haze of cannabis, who hope to solve all their problems by smuggling a consignement of drugs for a local gangster. It's set in the present day in Dublin, Ireland against the backdrop of the end of the Celtic Tiger: the bursting of the bubble of this economy boom that's supposed to have done wonders for us all.