Con O'Neill (actor)
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| Born | 1966 Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England |
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| Years active | 1980s-present | ||||||||||
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Con O'Neill is a British actor, born in 1966 Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England to parents from Dundalk in Ireland. He started acting at the Everyman Youth Theatre in Liverpool.
He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1988 for "Best Actor in a Musical" for his performance in Willy Russell's Blood Brothers and was nominated for Broadway's 1993 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical) for Blood Brothers.
He also starred in Dancin' Thru the Dark, the film adaptation of Willy Russell's Stags and Hens. In 2006 he starred as Aston in a tour of Sheffield Theatre's production of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, alongside David Bradley and Nigel Harman.
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- ^ http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/awards/winners Laurence Olivier Awards: Past winners
