Date of birth: 1946-10-31
Place of birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Стивен Ри, 斯蒂芬·瑞, استیون ری

Stephen Rea (born 31 October 1946) is an Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in a number of high profile films, both Irish and international, such as V for Vendetta, Michael Collins, Interview with the Vampire and Breakfast on Pluto. Rea was nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance as Fergus in the 1992 film The Crying Game.

2008-07-11
Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror

2005-11-16
In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in se

1994-11-11
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi

1998-10-30
In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, inte

2006-02-23
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” c

2007-04-05
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her fa

14-year-old Maria is sent to live with Catholic nuns as her mother is dying. Her arrival at the conv

1996-10-25
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but

2004-03-21
When a clergyman is accused for the murder of a social worker, the parish priest recruits a reporter

1994-12-23
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue an

2005-05-11
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

1999-12-03
On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, hus

2007-01-19
Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious acciden

1998-02-20
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a vi

2001-09-07
Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but h

1992-09-02
Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier

2006-11-03
A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.

2004-03-21
When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the las

2005-09-12
An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themse

1984-09-21
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods,

1995-02-25
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 p

2002-08-09
When four bodies are discovered among the industrial decay and urban grime of New York City, brash y

2004-12-07
Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new c
2018-01-01
Belfast-born actor Stephen Rea explores the impact of Brexit and the uncertainty of the future of th

2007-05-21
A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.

2010-04-08
Sibling rivalry turned into betrayal between two brothers. One a prime candidate for Prime Minister,

2008-01-01
A couple and their six-year-old son move into an old Connecticut house where the boy soon becomes di

1990-11-15
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy c

2009-01-28
In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to seduce

1999-09-12
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.

1994-09-16
Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is trie

1996-12-06
It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis P

2010-03-05
On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a divorced fisherman who has stopped drinking. His precocious daug

2009-08-14
Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up

2001-08-10
A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who gr

2011-07-01
In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, a

1985-10-04
In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on,

2002-09-27
No one knows for sure what transpired when German physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his Jewish Da

2012-01-19
Having escaped years of imprisonment, vampire warrioress Selene finds herself in a changed world whe

2011-04-23
Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally run

2006-11-10
A reporter witnesses a brutal murder and becomes entangled in a mystery involving a pair of twins.

2022-01-06
The playwright Brian Friel stands among the giants of Irish literature. From the 1980s onwards, he w

2003-06-13
Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway

1994-03-04
Angie lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and dreams of a better life. When she finds out she's pregnant

2012-03-09
A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he

1982-05-14
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questio

1993-05-28
The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children and ho

1996-09-09
Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies,

2012-10-09
Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on

2001-08-12
When a young boy witnesses a crime, he turns to a rabbi, and the ancient mysteries of the Kaballah,

2013-06-14
As one of the world's best restaurants opens for its final evening, a couple in the midst of a divor

2013-09-30
A veteran hostage negotiator's next call leads him to an overrun insane asylum. He soon finds that d

1984-11-29
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in

1995-05-28
A Greek-Irish sailor becomes friends with a 10-year-old sampan girl while his freighter is docked in

1996-09-14
In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held f

1997-09-05
A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.

1995-10-07
The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages, "Sh

1989-01-01
A performance of Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame', a play in which nothing happens, once - unlike Beckett'

2014-08-21
In 1989, Lara Hill, accompanies her art historian father to an abandoned castle across the Iron Curt

1993-03-27
Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then

2020-06-19
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about t

2022-08-31
A candid and revealing insight into the private life and public career of Richard Harris. One of the

2014-08-27
A couple and their daughter moves to Colombia to take over a family manufacturing plant, only to rea

1995-11-17
Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed
1989-11-25
Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.

1999-09-15
Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhoo

2002-09-30
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unem

1999-01-15
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict thi

1999-05-07
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been

2000-06-06
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the 1994 film, Interview with the Vampire.
1987-01-01
Drama about a Northern Irish football scout by Frank McGuinness and directed by Danny Boyle.

1977-09-21
Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to r
1978-02-05
A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an exper

2015-10-05
Ruby Strangelove Young Witch: When Ruby, a young witch discovers her long lost mother was abducted b

2023-07-14
Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey

1973-01-01
The award-winning 1973 documentary looks at the situation in Northern Ireland as it affects the Cath

1997-01-01
Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in

1997-04-04
A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling auto

1978-12-12
An impressionistic look at Irish emigrants in London, representing the emigrant's journey, a confusi

2004-07-02
The true story of the only African-American crew to take a Navy warship into combat in World War II.

2007-02-26
All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultant

1997-09-19
Brian is a television writer-producer who has to script a 22-episode anthology, but lacks inspiratio

1995-12-20
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invente

1980-12-02

1984-04-13
A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference

1972-01-01
Adaptation of the classic novel. A priceless jewel, originally plundered from a Hindu shrine, is pr

2018-09-05
In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long y

2010-01-24
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration

1999-09-03
The film concerns an old Irish immigrant living in London who is looking back over his life. He reca
2000-01-01
It's Samhain (Hallowe'en) in old Ireland, and King Connor is haunted by his life, his legacy, and th

2019-02-28
A young woman returns a lonely widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the t

2004-11-19
Fatso is the proprietor of what may be the worst eaterie in the city, and is struggling to keep a si

2018-07-15
This feature-length documentary investigates the role the British government played in the murder of

1986-03-23
Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?

2019-09-15
David Ireland's award-winning dark comedy about sectarian hatred in Northern Ireland. Eric Miller, a

1984-09-27
Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and

2019-10-10
This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northe

2008-11-10
"Heidi 4 Paws" is a live-action re-telling of Johanna Spyri's 1880 children's classic, "HEIDI", but

2019-12-22
Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Becket

1996-04-13
A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his fo

1974-12-05
After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too mu

2004-10-16
Starring Academy Award Nominee Stephen Rea as Murph, who has little to say to his teenage daughter.

2020-10-03
Documentary about the man who is currently considered the father of violation of human rights inques

1976-03-30
Kevin's wife walked out and left him holding the baby – no sleep, dirty nappies, and a career in pop

1979-01-02
A self-made man finds his building firm in trouble as a new office block nears completion.

2021-03-31
Filmed at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast for BBC's Lights Up season of theatrical films, David Ireland's

1974-03-02
A husband and wife team are hired to protect an eccentric millionaire from an assassin but a series

1970-07-22
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present s

2022-03-04
In this single shot thriller, we're in the driver's seat with small-time dealer Budge as he tries to
Set between Houston, Texas, and the weathered coastline of West Cork, Ireland, a grieving man vanish

2025-02-24
Over an extraordinary acting career spanning a decade, Stephen Rea has shown himself to be a versati