Stuart Graham (born 31 August 1967) is a Northern Irish film, television, and stage actor, born and brought up in Northern Ireland.
Life
Born in Belfast and educated at the University of Ulster, where he took a degree in media studies, Graham trained for an acting career at a drama school in London. In 1990 he played a minor part in a revival of Berenice at the Cottesloe Theatre, Lambeth, and in 1991 appeared at the Dublin Theatre Festival in a production of Michael Collins Big Fella! by the Praxis Theatre Laboratory of Greenwich, playing the part of Eoin O'Duffy.
Most of Graham's stage work has been in Dublin and Belfast, while in film and television he has worked in both Irish and British productions, specializing in playing Irishmen. However, his leading roles have included the part of the Englishman Howard Carter in Egypt (2005).
In 2000, Graham directed the premiere of Gary Mitchell's new play, Marching On, at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
In an interview in 2011, Graham commented
In April 2017, he appeared in The Ferryman at the Royal Court Theatre, ahead of a transfer to the Gielgud Theatre in the West End.
Filmography
Michael Collins (1996) – Thomas Cullen
The Informant (1997) – Det. Astley
One Man's Hero (1999) – Corporal Kenneally
Misery Harbour (1999) – John Wakefield
Song for a Raggy Boy (2003) – Brother Whelan
Omagh (2004) – Victor Barker
Hunger (2008) – Raymond Lohan
The Whistleblower (2010) – McVeigh
Parked (2010) – George O'Regan
Christopher and His Kind (2011) – Passport officer
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) – Minister
Grabbers (2012) – Skipper
Shadow Dancer (2012) – Ian Gilmore
A Patch of Fog (2015) - Tom Breslin
Mary Shelley (2017) - Publisher
The Foreigner (2017) - Detective Inspector Donald Greig
Bad Day for the Cut (2017) - Trevor Ballantine
Selected television work
Shockers: Cyclops (Channel 4 television film, 2001) - Carl Gatliss
Silent Witness (BBC television series, S06 E03 & E04, Kith and Kill, 2002) - DS Tony Ashton Egypt (BBC television series, 2005) – Howard Carter Waterloo Road (BBC television series, 2007) – Russell Millen Single-Handed (RTÉ Television series, 2007) – Johnny Mallon The Fall (BBC television series, 2013–2016) – DCI Matt Eastwood Our World War (BBC television series, 2014) – Father Brookes Thirteen (BBC television series, 2016) – Angus Moxam The Secret (ITV television series, 2016) – Dave Stewart Vera (ITV television series, 2017) - Alan Marston The Wheel of Time (Amazon Prime Video series, TBA) - Geofram Bornhald
On stage
Berenice (1990) at the Cottesloe Theatre, Lambeth (a Royal National Theatre production) Michael Collins Big Fella! (1991) at the St George's Theatre, Dublin (Praxis Theatre Laboratory of Greenwich, at Dublin Theatre Festival, 1991) The Silver Tassie (1994) at the Almeida Theatre, London Alternative Future (1994) at the Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast In a Little World of Our Own (1997) at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin As the Beast Sleeps (1997) at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin Carthaginians (1999) at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast Force of Change (2000) at the Royal Court Theatre, Kensington A Number (2007) at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin Pump Girl (2008) at the Queen's Drama Studio, Belfast The Painkiller (2011) at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast The Ferryman (2017) at the Royal Court Theatre and Gielgud Theatre, London