1. Stephen Rea is an Irish actor of stage and screen.
23 Facts About Stephen Rea
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Stephen Rea came to the attention of international film audiences in Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan's 1992 film The Crying Game, and subsequently starred in many more of Jordan's films, including Interview with the Vampire, Michael Collins, Breakfast on Pluto, and Greta.
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Stephen Rea played a starring role in the Hugo Blick 2011 TV series The Shadow Line.
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Stephen Rea is a co-founder of the Field Day Theatre Company with Brian Friel.
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Stephen Rea was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Crying Game, and won a BAFTA Award for his role in The Honourable Woman in 2015.
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Stephen Rea's father was a bus driver and his mother a housewife.
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Stephen Rea's family was Protestant but sympathetic to Irish nationalism.
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Stephen Rea studied English at the Queen's University Belfast and drama at the Abbey Theatre School in Dublin.
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Stephen Rea helped establish the Field Day Theatre Company in 1980 with Tom Paulin, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, and Seamus Deane.
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In 2007, Stephen Rea began a successful and acclaimed relationship with both the Abbey Theatre and Sam Shepard, appearing in Kicking a Dead Horse and Ages of the Moon, both penned by Shepard and both transferred to New York.
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Stephen Rea returned to the Abbey in 2009 to appear in the world premiere of Sebastian Barry's Tales of Ballycumber.
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Stephen Rea starred in Enda Walsh's 2014 play Ballyturk and portrayed Jordan in Out of the Dark, in which he co-stars alongside Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman and Alejandro Furth.
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Stephen Rea came to international attention when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Irish film-maker Neil Jordan's film The Crying Game in 1992.
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Stephen Rea is a frequent collaborator with Jordan, starring in his other films Interview with the Vampire, Michael Collins, The End of the Affair, Breakfast on Pluto, and Greta.
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In 2011, Stephen Rea featured in the BBC crime drama The Shadow Line, playing antagonist Gatehouse.
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In 2023, Stephen Rea appeared as Frank, husband to Eileen in the film The Miracle Club.
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Stephen Rea was hired to speak the words of Gerry Adams when Sinn Fein was under a broadcasting ban from 1988 to 1994.
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Stephen Rea narrated for the BBC Radio 4 production of Ulysses for Bloomsday, 16 June 2012.
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Stephen Rea is an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Tony Award nominee, a two-time BAFTA Award winner, and a three-time Irish Film and Television Award winner.
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Stephen Rea was nominated for a BAFTA Award and for the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Crying Game.
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In 2004, in recognition for his contribution to theatre and performing arts, Stephen Rea was given honorary degrees from both the Queen's University Belfast and the Ulster University.
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Stephen Rea won a BAFTA Award for his role in The Honourable Woman in 2015.
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From 1983 to 2003 Stephen Rea was married to Dolours Price, a former Provisional Irish Republican Army bomber and hunger striker who later became a critic of Sinn Fein.