Credits

• 2025 · Prime Target as Professor James Alderman
• 2023 · The Miracle Club as Frank Dunne
• 2022 · The English as Sheriff Robert Marshall
• 2022 · The Ghost of Richard Harris as Self
• 2022 · Nightride as Joe (voice)
• 2020 · Disclosure as Fergus (archive footage)
• 2020 · The Stranger as Martin Killane
• 2019 · Lost Lives as
• 2019 · Cyprus Avenue as Eric Miller
• 2019 · Greta as Brian Cody
• 2018 · Black '47 as Conneely
• 2018 · Unquiet Graves as Narrator
• 2017 · Counterpart as Alexander Pope
• 2016 · War and Peace as Vassily Kuragin
• 2015 · Dickensian as Inspector Bucket
• 2014 · The Honourable Woman as Hugh Hayden-Hoyle
• 2013 · Utopia as Conran Letts
• 2012 · Werewolf: The Beast Among Us as Doc
• 2012 · Underworld: Awakening as Dr. Jacob Lane
• 2010 · The Heavy as Anawalt
• 2010 · Ondine as Priest
• 2009 · Nothing Personal as Martin
• 2009 · Spy(ies) as M. Palmer
• 2007 · Stuck as Tom Bardo
• 2007 · The Reaping as Father Costigan
• 2006 · V for Vendetta as Finch
• 2005 · Breakfast on Pluto as Bertie
• 2005 · Tara Road as Colm
• 2004 · Control as Dr. Arlo Penner
• 2004 · The Halo Effect as Fatso
• 2004 · The Good Shepherd as McCaran
• 2004 · The I Inside as Doctor Newman
• 2003 · Bloom as Leopold Bloom
• 2002 · FearDotCom as Alistair
• 2001 · The Musketeer as Cardinal Richelieu
• 2001 · On the Edge as Dr. Figure
• 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Callum Donovan
• 1999 · I Could Read the Sky as P.J.
• 1998 · The Butcher Boy as Da Brady
• 1997 · Fever Pitch as Ray, the Governor
• 1996 · The Last of the High Kings as Cab Driver
• 1996 · Michael Collins as Ned Broy
• 1996 · Crime of the Century as Bruno Richard Hauptmann
• 1995 · Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea as Nikos
• 1995 · Citizen X as Lt. Viktor Burakov
• 1994 · Interview with the Vampire as Santiago
• 1994 · Angie as Noel Riordan
• 1993 · Hedda Gabler as Eilert Lovborg
• 1992 · The Crying Game as Fergus
• 1991 · Performance as Ejlert Lovborg
• 1991 · Performance as Seumus Shields
• 1987 · Scout as Marshall
• 1986 · Boon as Frank Warren
• 1985 · Screen Two as Frankie
• 1984 · The Company of Wolves as Young Groom
• 1979 · Minder as Roddy Allan
• 1978 · On a Paving Stone Mounted as
• 1977 · The Professionals as Pellin
• 1977 · BBC2 Play of the Week as Pavel Hollar
• 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
• 1973 · Thriller as Arden Buckley
• 1972 · The Moonstone as Major Frayne
• 1970 · Play for Today as Shay
• 1970 · Play for Today as Peter
• 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Konstantin Treplev
• 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
• 1953 · The Oscars as Self
• Future · Visitation as
• 2025 · Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now as Self
• 2022 · Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman as Self
• 2021 · Sadie as Self - Lyric Theatre
• 2020 · Secrets from Putumayo as Narrator (voice)
• 2020 · Flesh and Blood as Mark
• 2019 · Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett as Self
• 2019 · Thanksgiving as Melchior
• 2018 · Hard Border as Self
• 2015 · Ruby Strangelove Young Witch as Danforth
• 2014 · Out of the Dark as Jordan
• 2014 · The Curse of Styria as Dr. Hill
• 2013 · Asylum as McGahey
• 2013 · Tasting Menu as Walter
• 2012 · Stella Days as Brendan
• 2011 · Blackthorn as Mackinley
• 2011 · The Shadow Line as Gatehouse
• 2011 · Roadkill as Seamus
• 2010 · Harold Pinter: A Celebration as Self
• 2009 · Father & Son as Augustine Flynn
• 2008 · Heidi 4 Paws as Doctor (voice)
• 2008 · Kisses as Down Under Dylan (uncredited)
• 2008 · 10 Days to War as General Tim Cross
• 2008 · The Devil's Mercy as Tyler
• 2007 · Celebration as Waiter
• 2007 · Until Death as Gabriel Callaghan
• 2006 · Sisters as Dr. Philip Lacan
• 2006 · Sixty Six as Dr. Barrie
• 2005 · River Queen as Francis
• 2004 · Fluent Dysphasia as Murph
• 2004 · Proud as Barney Garvey
• 2002 · Evelyn as Michael Beattie
• 2002 · Copenhagen as Niels Bohr
• 2001 · Snow in August as Rabbi Judah Hirsch
• 2000 · In the Shadow of the Vampire: The Making of Interview with the Vampire as Self
• 2000 · The King's Wake as King Conor
• 1999 · The End of the Affair as Henry Miles
• 1999 · The Life Before This as Brian
• 1999 · Guinevere as Connie Fitzpatrick
• 1999 · This Is My Father as Mission Priest
• 1999 · In Dreams as Doctor Silverman
• 1998 · Still Crazy as Tony Costello
• 1997 · A Scare at Bedtime as
• 1997 · Sink Or Swim as Brian
• 1997 · Double Tap as Cypher
• 1997 · A Further Gesture as Sean Dowd
• 1996 · Trojan Eddie as Trojan Eddie
• 1996 · Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told as Voice
• 1995 · Lumière & Company as (segment "John Boorman")
• 1995 · All Men Are Mortal as Fosca
• 1995 · Shadow of a Gunman as Seamus Shields
• 1994 · Prêt-à-Porter as Milo O'Brannigan
• 1994 · Princess Caraboo as Gutch
• 1993 · Bad Behavior as Gerry McAllister
• 1990 · Life Is Sweet as Patsy
• 1990 · Not with a Bang as Colin Garrity
• 1989 · Nobody Here But Us Chickens as
• 1989 · Endgame as Clov
• 1986 · Shergar as Frankie
• 1985 · The Doctor and the Devils as Timothy Broom
• 1984 · Four Days in July as Dixie McConville
• 1984 · The House as The Soldier
• 1984 · Loose Connections as Harry
• 1982 · Angel as Danny
• 1980 · Caleb Williams as Tyrell
• 1980 · Caleb Williams as Tyrell
• 1979 · The Out of Town Boys as Shay
• 1978 · The Seagull as Constantin
• 1977 · Professional Foul as Hollar
• 1977 · The Hollywood Greats as
• 1976 · Early Struggles as Chas
• 1975 · Days of Hope as Reporter
• 1975 · I Didn't Know You Cared as Carter Brandon
• 1974 · Fugitive as Peter
• Future · The Body Is Water as Mr M
• 1974 · K Is for Killing as Arden Buckley
• 1973 · A Place Called Ardoyne as Narrator (voice)
• 1972 · The Moonstone as Major Frayne
• 1970 · Cry of the Banshee as Villager