Rea frequently worked with Irish filmmaker Neil Patrick Jordan during the early part of his career and made a name for himself in the British film industry as well. }; const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'app_purchase'); base: { Born in Belfast to a protestant father and an atheist mother, Rea aligned politically with the IRA: a progressive socialist, he believes in a United Ireland. window.showNonSubscriberElements) { if (getCookie('guid')) { } else if (badge.indexOf('print_annual_') > -1) { return; const selectedPriceRadioInput = node.querySelector('.subtitle2 input[type="radio"]'); }); Stephen Rea is an Irish actor who has been starring in numerous theater plays in Ireland and the United Kingdom since the early 1970s, but best known for the success he achieved with The Crying Game in 1992, where he starred as Fergus alongside Forest Whitaker. showPremiumBadge(node); // if we have a selectedPrice we will continue to use it The story centers on a news reporter (Sevigny) who, after witnessing a murder, becomes involved in a crime investigation surrounding a mysterious doctor (Rea) and one of his former patients, a young French woman who was born with a Conjoined twin . We decided that we would have the performances as close as possible to the location where the person fell.\u0026amp;quot;It\u0026#039;s full of technical challenges - we have a massive team of technicians wiping down everything.\u0026amp;quot;Alongside Stephen Rea, who is directing, other stars involved in the project include Moe Dunford (Vikings), Laurence Kinlan (Love/Hate), and Jane Brennan (Brooklyn).Each piece will last about 14 minutes and will be performed by a solo actor. if (priceA.badges['home-delivery'] && priceB.badges['premium']) { const badgeToFilterBy = badgeMap[tab.id]; } The official story is that she was crushed in the crowd - but in fact she was shot. } Rea helped establish the Field Day Theatre Company in 1980 with Tom Paulin, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney and Seamus Deane. } if (badges.indexOf('home-delivery') > -1 && !isHomeDelivery) { For people in the North, it means something entirely different.\u0026amp;quot;I always felt the conflict in the North was not understood by southerners. dispatchEvent(new Event('reinitialize')); Actor Stephen Rea has revealed how he has now found peace spending as much time as he can in his home in Donegal. return charCode > 31 && (charCode < 48 || charCode > 57) ? }); //if the item doesn't exist, return null He attended Belfast High School and the Queen's University, where he studied English. setBundleToFullWidth(plan); // Regionals Container You can't connect to the DUP. const item = setPriceSelected(priceID); } This is the first time that the Abbey and the GAA have ever worked on something together, and I think that's a wonderful thing.". eventAction: 'change_cc', }, }; window.showSubscriberElements(); productClickSource = undefined; bundleContainer.classList.toggle('-three', bundleContainer.children.length === 3); } The film stars Isabelle Huppert, Chlo Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe, Colm Feore and Stephen Rea, and follows a young woman as she befriends a lonely widow who becomes disturbingly obsessed with her.. Greta held its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2018. When your life is driving you insane, you can stay sane by just getting down and doing some work.\u0026amp;quot;So could he ever imagine stopping?He gives me one of those signature wry Rea smiles and says: \u0026amp;quot;Sometimes I wonder if I\u0026#039;ll get up in the morning.\u0026amp;quot;100 years on: 14 Voices commemorates the lives lost in Croke Park on Bloody Sunday This month, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bloody Sunday on November 21, the Abbey Theatre partners for the first time with the GAA to give voice to the 14 men, women and children who were killed in Croke Park on that day, in 14 Voices From The Bloodied Field. } } else if (isUpgrades) { document.getElementById('fp-tog-1').click(); card_expiry_style: stripeInputStyle, \u0026#039;Brits out\u0026#039; for a Cork man means [film producer and member of the House of Lords] David Puttnam or the Brits who are living in West Cork. 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Your anonymised data includes your information, the pages you visit on Independent.ie, and products or services you buy from us. \u0026amp;quot;There\u0026#039;s people who want to talk about her politics but I\u0026#039;ve two boys upstairs who lost their mother and they need to come to terms with the fact that they don\u0026#039;t have a mother.\u0026amp;quot;Fatherhood is one of the great joys in his life, and something that has eased the pain of lockdown. A city\u0026#039;s life force is waning and the actor reads an extract from Samuel Beckett\u0026#039;s Malone Dies, in which the narrator portends his own end. }; \u0026amp;quot;I\u0026#039;m not quite sure what my role is because it\u0026#039;s a monologue and the actor just really has to learn it.\u0026amp;quot;Bloody Sunday, he says, is \u0026amp;quot;part of the story of the War of Independence which goes back 400 years\u0026amp;quot;. subscriptionStatus: cookieData.subscriptionStatus, if (faq) { }); } template_summary_other_paymet_options_apple_pay: "

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