- Eugene O'Hare is an Irish actor, Methuen-published playwright and screenwriter. He has played recurring roles in major dramas for HBO, Netflix, BBC, Starz and Sony. He is currently writing for the upcoming Netflix UK series 'Grown Ups'. He made his Broadway debut at 24 and has worked with directors such as Sam Mendes, Ridley Scott and Alex Graves. In May 2024 he was named the winner of the inaugural Victoria Wood Playwriting Prize for Comedy; a major new-writing prize created by Sean Foley at Birmingham Rep Theatre, BBC Comedy and Victoria Wood Foundation. His play 'Portugal' beat 600 anonymous entries.
He plays Governor Martin in 'Outlander' Seasons 6 & 7 and recently filmed for the new series of 'The Diplomat' for Netflix.
O'Hare's performance in True West was publicly lauded by its author the late Sam Shepard in the last British revival before Shepard's death.
O'Hare created the role of Magennis in Jez Butterworth's hit play The Ferryman directed by Sam Mendes in 2017. His first American stage role was on Broadway playing Colm Meaney's son in the Eugene O'Neill masterpiece A Moon for the Misbegotten. O'Hare later returned to New York to St Ann's Warehouse to create the role of Pierre opposite Adrian Lester in Lolita Chakrabarti's multi award-winning debut play Red Velvet.
He has both written for and performed at the National Theatre in London and has played many roles on stage at theaters such as the Royal Court, Shakespeare's Globe, The Old Vic and in London's West End.
in 2022, he played American tech millionaire James McKelvey in Season 2 of HBO's Industry and he played Michaelis in the Netflix/Sony remake of Lady Chatterley's Lover. He has had roles in Black Mirror, Marcella, The Fall, Dublin Murders and Prometheus.
In 2019, his debut plays, published by Methuen, debuted in the same season at the Park Theatre in London to critical and public acclaim. One of these plays, Sydney & the Old Girl, featured the Harry Potter Bafta-winning actress Miriam Margolyes.
in 2023 his new Irish play The Dry House headlined the first spring season of the new Marylebone Theatre in London on 31st March. It ran until 6th May and starred Derry Girls actor Kathy Kiera Clarke. O'Hare also directed the play. The production was publicly lauded by the actor and filmmaker Paddy Considine. It was described by theatre critic Patrick Marmion as "as bleak and beautiful a work as you can care to imagine".The play received nightly full standing ovations with some audience members claiming to have seen the play several times- describing its effect as cathartic and profound.
The BBC commissioned his first outing as a screenwriter in 2018. The Music Room featured the entire Ulster Orchestra and played to a record audience on BBC One during Children in Need. In 2023 he received a commission from ITV Comedy which is currently in development with Element Pictures.
O'Hare has several original feature film scripts optioned and in development with Northern Ireland Screen. A wide range of high profile talent have attached to, or performed ,his work including Stephen Rea, David Tennant, and Caitriona Balfe.
He is represented by the Literary agency Curtis Brown in London and as an actor he is represented by Charlie Cox at EBA.- IMDb mini biography by: Savage Artists
- Nationality / Religious or Ethnic identityIrish
- Since 2020, O'Hare's poetry has appeared in dozens of international magazines such as Rattle, Causeway, Stand, Cyphers and as a featured news piece in The Irish News. He was shortlisted for the 2021 poetry prize at Belfast Book Festival, shortlisted by Billy Collins for the Fish Publishing Prize, and in 2024 he was named runner-up in the 52nd Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award for an unpublished first collection.
- "Don't know where I stand with the weatherman these days. One day it's all warm and breezy, and the next Old Jack frost comes to take the skin off your back"- The Weatherman (Methuen Drama)
- "Then all the clouds vanish and one by one the little stars that barely had time to shine; they cover their mouths, clutch their noses, close their eyes and shut down their lives until all there's left is the dark. What are we gonna do when we only got each other and the long cold dark?"- from "The Weatherman" (Methuen Drama)
- "The Irish strike me as a very real sort of people"- from "Sydney & the Old Girl" (Methuen Drama)
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