LIAM CUNNINGHAM was born in Dublin and had begun working as an electrician when he saw an advertisement for an acting school and decided to give it a try. His first film role was as a policeman in Mike Newell’s “Into The West”. Since then, he has been involved in many films and theatre productions on both sides of the Atlantic. His feature films include Alfonso Cuarón’s “The Little Princess”, Jerry Zucker’s “First Knight”, Michael Winterbottom’s “Jude”, Neil Marshall’s “Dog Soldiers”, Neil Jordan’s “Breakfast on Pluto” and Daniel Barber’s “Harry Brown”. He played the lead in John Michael McDonagh’s first, short film, “The Second Death” in 2000. Cunningham has been nominated six times for Irish Film and Television Awards, winning twice for his performances in Ken Loach’s “The Wind that Shakes the Barley” and Steve McQueen’s “Hunger” and he was named as one of the top five Irish actors of the Millennium in a poll conducted by the Ireland Film and Television Network. His most recent films are Neil Marshall’s action-adventure “Centurion”, set in Roman Britain, Louis Leterrier’s tale of warring Greek gods “Clash of the Titans” and Larysa Kondracki’s “The Whistleblower”, with Rachel Weisz as an American cop in post-war Bosnia.
BOYLE FILM PRODUCTIONS LIMITED