Liam Carney
Liam’s work at the Abbey Theatre includes The Playboy of the Western World, The Seafarer, Romeo and Juliet, Homeland, Portia Coughlan, Done up Like a Kipper, Brothers of the Brush, A Picture of Paradise, The Passion of Jerome and Twenty Grand. He has just finished playing Leo in There Came a Gypsy Riding by Frank McGuinness. Other work includes Cruel and Tender by Martin Crimp (Project Arts Centre), John Plunkett in Dublin Carol by Conor McPherson (Everyman Palace Cork and national tour), Frozen (Tall Tales), Mud (The Corn Exchange), All’s Well That Ends Well (Classic Stage) and Bedbound (Corcadorca). He works regularly with The Passion Machine, most recently playing Walter in Studs by Paul Mercier at the Gaiety Theatre. Films include Speed Dating, Studs, Spin the Bottle, Ocras, Martin, Tubberware, Gangs of New York, When the Sky Falls, Angela’s Ashes, The Boxer, JJ Biker, Braveheart, Far and Away and The Commitments. Television credits include Single Handed, Running to Standstill, Pure Mule, The Clinic, The Ambassador, Glenroe, Ballykissangel, Making the Cut and The Hanging Gael. Liam recently made his directorial debut with the ‘Molly Soliloquy’ from Ulysses.
