1. Barry Keoghan's accolades include a BAFTA Award, along with nominations for an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
23 Facts About Barry Keoghan
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Barry Keoghan gained praise for his performances in the Irish crime film Calm with Horses and in the fantasy film The Green Knight.
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Barry Keoghan expanded to big-budget films with his role as Druig in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals.
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Barry Keoghan then starred in the psychological drama Saltburn, for which he gained nominations for a Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Actor.
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Barry Keoghan was born on 18 October 1992, and grew up in Summerhill, Dublin, Ireland.
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Barry Keoghan's mother struggled with drug addiction and died when he was 12.
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Barry Keoghan began his acting career in 2011 when he answered a casting notice in a Sheriff Street shop window for the crime film Between the Canals.
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Barry Keoghan portrayed Aido in a small role in the film, which was released in 2011.
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Barry Keoghan featured as George Mills in Dunkirk and starred as Martin Lang in The Killing of a Sacred Deer alongside Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman.
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Barry Keoghan won the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
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Barry Keoghan portrayed Spencer Reinhart in the film, based on a real-life theft of rare books from a university library.
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In February 2020, Barry Keoghan left the main series production of Y: The Last Man, in which he had cast lead character Yorick Brown.
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In 2021, Barry Keoghan played Druig in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals, and appeared in The Green Knight.
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Barry Keoghan appeared in Matt Reeves's film The Batman, credited as "Unseen Arkham Prisoner", a charachter subsequently confirmed to be the Joker.
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Barry Keoghan received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination, and won BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in the 2022 film The Banshees of Inisherin, written and directed by Martin McDonagh.
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In 2023, Keoghan played the lead role of Oliver Quick in Emerald Fennell's psychological thriller Saltburn, alongside Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Alison Oliver, Richard E Grant, and Carey Mulligan.
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Barry Keoghan received critical acclaim for his performance, and was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actor.
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Barry Keoghan was cast as Ringo Starr in a series of four interconnected but separate biopics about the Beatles from filmmaker Sam Mendes.
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In March 2022, Barry Keoghan was announced as the new ambassador for the Barretstown children's charity.
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Barry Keoghan helped open the charity's new Aladina Studio funded by the Spanish Aladina Foundation.
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Barry Keoghan was later released without charge and issued with a fixed charged notice.
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In September 2021, Barry Keoghan began dating Alyson Kierans, a dental nurse and orthodontic therapist.
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Barry Keoghan has received various accolades, including a BAFTA Film Award and nominations for an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.