Barry McEvoy
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Barry McEvoy is an Irish film actor/writer best known for writing and playing the lead in An Everlasting Piece (2000), directed by Barry Levinson. McEvoy's first screen appearance of note was in the supporting role of a gangster in Gloria (1999), filmed after he had spent a decade performing in Off Broadway plays in New York City. McEvoy also appears in Gettysburg (1993), Veronica Guerin (2003), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), and Five Minutes of Heaven (2009).
McEvoy based the screenplay of An Everlasting Piece upon the adventures of his own father selling toupées to both Protestants and Catholics in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the height of the conflict.
Before his career in film, Barry was lead singer for legendary 1980s Washington, D.C., punk band Phlegm, who released several records before disbanding in 1988.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.105 |
Birthday | 1967-07-11 |
Place of Birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK |
Also Known As |
2000
An Everlasting Piece
5.9/8
Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business...
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An Everlasting Piece
2022
You're Not Home
5.5/2
When an ominous mould appears in their room, two African brothers seeking asylum are faced with a dark entity lurking within their direct provision ce...
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You're Not Home
1999
Gloria
5.7/118
After serving a prison term for her boyfriend, a streetwise, middle-aged moll named Gloria stands up against the mobs, which is complicated by a six-y...
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Gloria
2003
Veronica Guerin
6.6/299
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin...
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Veronica Guerin
2009
Five Minutes of Heaven
6.2/201
The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting b...
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Five Minutes of Heaven
1993
Gettysburg
6.9/290
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching t...
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Gettysburg
2003
Gods and Generals
6.3/174
The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from th...
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Gods and Generals
2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
7.4/15800
Captain Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davy Jones to avoid eternal damnation.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2017
The Barber Shop
0/0
A young kid who has been the butt of an ongoing cruel joke gets to have the last laugh.
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