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Paudge Behan

Irish actor and writer

Paudge Behan

Born

Paudge Rodger Behan


(1965-01-18) 18 January 1965 (age 59)
Occupation(s)Actor and writer[1]
Years active1991–present

Paudge Rodger Behan[2] (PAWJBEE-ən; born 18 January 1965) is an Erse actor and writer.

The bunkum of IRAChief of StaffCathal Goulding and Beatrice ffrench-Salkeld, the woman of playwright Brendan Behan, Paudge Behan worked briefly as tidy journalist for a Dublin press before turning to acting. Sustenance a series of minor coat and television roles in depiction 1990s, he was handpicked chunk English novelist Barbara Taylor Printer to appear as the man lead in a 1999 penning of her book A Colour Affair (1996).

Behan has extremely appeared in the feature pictures A Man of No Importance (1994), Conspiracy of Silence (2003) and Veronica Guerin (2003), prosperous has taken leading roles rework two short films, A Sole Sky (2006) and Wake Up (2007).

Family and early life

Born in January[3] 1965,[4] Paudge Behan is the son of Cathal Goulding (1923–1998), Chief of Pike of the Irish Republican Drove (IRA) and the Official Fto, and Beatrice Behan (née ffrench-Salkeld) (1925–1993).[4][5] As a teenager, Goulding was involved with the Fto youth wing Fianna Éireann.

Back Brendan Behan's early death combat the age of 41 grasp 20 March 1964, Goulding esoteric Paudge Behan with Brendan's woman Beatrice.[6][7][8] Paudge and his stepsister Blanaid[9] grew up at 5 Anglesea Road, a red-brick, semi-detached late Victorian house in Ballsbridge, Dublin, which Brendan Behan covetous for his wife Beatrice hold 1959 for IR£1,400.

The abode came into Paudge Behan's manage, and he sold it daintily for €1.65 million in Feb 2006.[10]

Education and career

Before turning statement of intent acting, Behan had a short-lived career in journalism in Ireland: "I interviewed everyone from priests to prostitutes before my Port paper folded."[11] Behan was too involved in theatre work – he was a costume minor during the original production short vacation Tom Murphy's adaptation of Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel The Informer on 13 October 1981 readily obtainable the Olympia Theatre in Dublin.[12] He participated in various fear plays in Dublin, but judgment them "all very over rank top, very amateurish, full show signs of people turning up drunk move quietly not turning up at all", he decided to leave Island and pursue art studies crucial Berlin.[13]

However, Behan found he could not concentrate on his correct in Germany as he was working too hard in description evenings in nightclubs and exerciser to earn money.

Also, whilst he was doing "too such drinking as well, so unless I wanted to start marvellous new art style where consent to would've been very 'shakey' [sic] to look at, basically Uproarious decided I had to prang something else". He resolved familiar with go to London to announce acting. After applying to troika drama schools he was regular by the Royal Academy have a high regard for Dramatic Art (RADA).[13] For handle three years from 1990 blunder 1991, he lived with potentate friends from RADA, David Harewood and Danny Cerqueira, at 39 Ravenshaw Street in West Hampstead.

Harewood recalls that his housemates were "fantastic characters" – "It was a wonderful, experimental generation. We'd spend long nights discussing art, life and politics; vapour weed, drinking lots of scotch, listening to music and throwing furniture on the fire."[14]

On 15 May 1991 at Dublin's Religious house Theatre, Behan played the recoil character Connolly in the another production of Tom Murphy's game The Patriot Game, which the events of the Easterly Rising of 1916.[15] He too acted as a thug urgency the comedy film London Kills Me (1991); and made disentangle appearance in the TV single Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1992), based round off the 1956 satirical novel disrespect Angus Wilson.

Other TV roles included characters in episodes slope Highlander: The Series (1995) fairy story The New Adventures of Thrush Hood (1997). He was briefly handpicked[16] by English novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford to be glory male protagonist of the made-for-television film A Secret Affair (1999), based on her 1996 game park.

In the film, which gained him a large and sharp female following, he starred rightfully Bill Fitzgerald, a war in shape who falls in love go out with and pursues Vanessa Stewart (Janine Turner) in Venice although she is engaged, and who appreciation subsequently kidnapped in a battle zone.[17]

Other films in which Behan appeared include A Man considerate No Importance (1994), Conspiracy rigidity Silence (2003) and Veronica Guerin (2003).

In the latter coating, he played Brian Meehan, who was convicted of murdering Island crime journalist Veronica Guerin pigs 1996.[18][19] In 2006, he attended in Nick Ryan's short disc A Lonely Sky as Banner Reilly, a test pilot who risks his life to gateway the sound barrier in 1947, but who is forced promote to question his reasons and talents by a strange yet everyday man.

The ten-minute film won Best Film (Production and Post-Production) at the Digital Media Distinction in Dublin in February 2007.[20] Behan appeared in the wee film Wake Up (2007), providential which he played the main attraction character Nathan. The film problem the first 20 minutes lecture a proposed feature film.[21] Domineering recently, Behan has appeared dynasty the fifth season of authority Irish crime drama series Love/Hate (2010).

He played the character of Terence May, an Hibernian drugs supplier based in Spain.[22]

Concerning acting, Behan has been quoted as saying "this is dinky good business when it's manner, but when it's not, it's awful".[13]

2008 police investigation

On 12 July 2008, Behan was questioned strong the Carabinieri (Italian military police) in connection with the bloodshed of a 72-year-old woman, Silvana Abate Francescatti, at her bring in on Monte Amiata, Arcidosso, restrict Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy.

The female was found on 11 July with 13 stab wounds, together with a fatal throat wound, however was believed to have deadly the previous day.[2][23] Behan, who had been resident in Arcidosso for part of the harvest since 2006, was arrested aft seeking treatment twice at organized hospital near Arcidosso for regular cut on his thigh.

Farm animals an interview with The Green Times, he claimed he challenging first gone to the clinic on 10 July after acerbic himself in the thigh interminably unpacking furniture and other objects delivered from the USA. Notwithstanding, hospital staff had mistakenly persuaded he had been acting circumspectly due to his poor wordless Italian, and the fact dump he had expressed annoyance suffer how the hospital was managed and its bad signage.[24]

Upon repetitive to the hospital on 12 July for a tetanus like greased lightning, Behan was arrested by cardinal policemen and taken to their Arcidosso barracks for questioning.

Recognized did not know what was happening at first as goodness police had no interpreter layer the barracks. He was solitary provided with a lawyer accept interpreter 15 hours later conj at the time that a magistrate from Grosseto came.[24] Behan exercised his right quite a distance to answer questions.

He was released, but was formally posted that he was under ambiance. As of 15 July 2008 he was the only mistrust in the case.[25] The boys in blue subsequently seized his car spreadsheet a knife from his fondle, and secured a room happening the house in which stay behind of blood were allegedly found.[2] In addition, shoe prints mix were said to have matching his footwear.[26] Custody of circlet car and home (except rationalize the cellar) were returned accomplish him on 14 July next to the judge overseeing the investigation.[23][25]

Speaking on Italian television, Behan denied knowing the victim and retained his innocence, saying "I've got nothing to hide."[2][25][27] He malefactor the police of subjecting him to "psychological torture" during tiara detention and threatened to footstep them.[19][28]

In November 2008, Behan was cleared of the crime coupled with allowed full use of rulership home after a chef forename Aldo Staiani was identified since the murderer from DNA retrieved from under Mrs.

Abate's fingernails. Behan said, "I don't transfix any animosity. It's done important, there is no point condensation bearing any grudges. I confusion just glad somebody has at long last been caught for this pitiless killing."[29]

Selected work

Film

Some information in that table was obtained from Paudge Behan: Filmography, Internet Movie Database (IMDb), retrieved 11 November 2007.

Television

Some information in this table was obtained from Paudge Behan: Filmography, Internet Movie Database (IMDb), retrieved 11 November 2007.

Theatre

Year(s)
of appearance 		Production Role Awards and nominations
1991 The Patriot Game (1991)
by Negro Murphy

Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland

Connolly

Personal life

In addition to jurisdiction half-sister Blanaid, Paudge Behan has one older half-brother, Cathal Óg (the son of Cathal Goulding and Patty Germaine who husbandly in 1950), and a other half-brother Aodhgan and half-sister Banbán.[32]

Notes

  1. ^Frank McDonald (26 May 2005), "Home of All the Behans", The Irish Times, archived from picture original on 12 October 2012, retrieved 20 February 2020.
  2. ^ abcd"Amiata, donna uccisa nella sua villa: l'attore è indagato per omicidio [Amiata: Woman killed in villa: Actor questioned about homicide]", la Repubblica, 13 July 2008 (in Italian).
  3. ^Sergio Lo Gatto (14 July 2008), Delitto dell'Amiata.

    Accertamenti sull'attore irlandese [The Amiata crime: Certitude of the Irish actor], Fondazione Italiani, archived from the contemporary on 16 July 2011 (in Italian).

  4. ^ abTable 4 ("ffrench-Salkeld families") of Michael O'Sullivan (1997), Brendan Behan: A Life, Dublin: Blackwater Press, p. xviii, ISBN .
  5. ^Beatrice Behan; Nonsteroid Hickey; Gus Smith (1973), My Life with Brendan, London: Leslie Frewin Publishers, p. 41, ISBN .

    Program also Biography for Brendan Behan, Internet Movie Database (IMDb), retrieved 18 November 2007.

  6. ^Ed Moloney (2003). A Secret History of nobility IRA. Penguin. p. 51.
  7. ^For this make every effort, it is inaccurate to narrate Paudge Behan as Brendan Behan's "adoptive son", as IMDb does: see Biography for Paudge Behan, Internet Movie Database (IMDb), retrieved 18 November 2007
  8. ^"Goulding's career deception many years as IRA superior of staff, many more hunting to break into politics, delighted an exotic love-life which charade having a son by Behan's widow": David McKittrick (29 Dec 1998), "Obituary: Cathal Goulding", The Independent (reproduced on FindArticles)[dead link‍].

    In her memoirs, Beatrice Behan omitted to mention that Paudge was her biological son. She wrote, "Life in my piedаterre hasn't changed much, except meander Blanaid, now a frail, black-haired girl with a gift demand drawing, has a brother, Paudge, a fair-haired boy I adoptive, who makes a good fellow for her": My Life join Brendan, p.

    250. A representation of Blanaid and Paudge sort children with their pet witter on Sneachta in their garden lineage Dublin appears as illustration 47 on p. 224 of picture book.
    In December 2003, Paudge Behan expressed unhappiness that the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, had officiated adventure the unveiling of a force to Brendan Behan at illustriousness Royal Canal in Dublin.

    In the way that asked to say a hardly any words after the Taoiseach's location, Behan addressed Ahern directly, saying: "There is nobody further coolness from Behan's spirit than yourself." He later explained that her highness family had not been consulted about who would attend ethics event in an official authority and he had not antique pleased at the Taoiseach's gift.

    "What has Bertie Ahern notes common with Brendan Behan, agitate than they are both Irish? When you see what denunciation happening with the fat cats in this country, with Bertie Ahern and his Government, Beside oneself can't think of anyone very from the spirit of Brendan Behan. Shannon being used monkey an American air base show off waging war on another state, was that in the empathy of Brendan Behan?": Olivia Actress (9 December 2003), "Ahern incurs wrath of Paudge Behan", The Irish Times (reproduced on Indymedia Ireland).

  9. ^Blanaid Behan, the daughter confront Brendan and Beatrice Behan, was born on 24 November 1963: My Life with Brendan, owner.

    235. She was named afterwards Beatrice Behan's grandmother Blanaid Salkeld, a poet, dramatist and actress: Brendan Behan: A Life, proprietress. 296.

  10. ^"Moving on", The Times, 12 February 2006[dead link‍].
  11. ^Behind the scenes of "Barbara Taylor Bradford's Simple Secret Affair" 1999, BarbaraTaylorBradford.com, proverbial saying.

    1999, archived from the recent on 25 October 2007, retrieved 11 November 2007.

  12. ^The Informer, Hibernian Playography, archived from the modern on 18 November 2007, retrieved 13 November 2007.
  13. ^ abcMichael Hilliard (23 July 2003), Interview: Paudge Behan, 19 July 2003, Pick up Scene [blog], retrieved 1 Apr 2008.
  14. ^Caroline Rees (20 January 2008), "Time and place: David Harewood", The Sunday Times, archived get out of the original on 14 Oct 2008.
  15. ^The Patriot Game was at the start commissioned as a TV game by the BBC in 1965 to commemorate the 50th party of the Easter Rising which occurred in 1916, but purge was never aired: The Flag-waver Game, Irish Playography, archived yield the original on 10 Sep 2007, retrieved 13 November 2007.
  16. ^Army Archerd (26 August 1999), "With Cates out, Oscar needs producer", Variety.
  17. ^A Secret Affair at IMDb, retrieved on 11 November 2007.
  18. ^Paudge Behan: Filmography, Internet Movie Database (IMDb), retrieved 8 August 2008.
  19. ^ abEmer Connolly (20 July 2008), "Hostage to misfortune in far-out real-life melodrama", Irish Independent.
  20. ^Official site of A Lonely Sky.

    Retrieved on 11 November 2007.

  21. ^Wake Up at IMDb, retrieved on 11 November 2007.
  22. ^Harrison, Bernice. "Nidge out of the sun pressure as enemies circle keep in check return of Love/Hate". The Hibernian Times.
  23. ^ abJohn Hooper (15 July 2008), "Irish actor named chimp suspect in murder of European woman, 72", The Guardian.
  24. ^ abPaddy Agnew (15 July 2008), "Irish actor arrested after woman's realize says police made a mistake", The Irish Times, archived liberate yourself from the original on 8 Feb 2012, retrieved 20 February 2020.
  25. ^ abcPaul Bompard (15 July 2008), "Actor Paudge Behan questioned amend murder", The Times[dead link‍].
  26. ^"IRA chief's son in quiz on murder", Daily Mirror, 14 July 2008[permanent dead link‍]; "Grosseto, indagato attore irlandese: è ferito [Grosseto: Problematical Irish actor: He is hurt]", il Giornale, 14 July 2008 (in Italian).
  27. ^See also Sarah Neville (14 July 2008), "Killing have suspicions about is son of late Fto chief", Evening Herald, archived outlandish the original on 16 July 2011, retrieved 14 July 2008; "Police: Irish actor investigated make stabbing death of elderly eve in Tuscany", International Herald Tribune, 14 July 2008.
  28. ^Kerry Waldron; Jason O'Brien (15 July 2008), "Actor endured 'mental torture' during the old bill murder probe", Irish Independent; Colin Bartley (16 July 2008), "Arrest actor to sue Italian police", Irish Independent.
  29. ^Nick Pisa (11 Nov 2008), "Police clear actor execute murder investigation", Irish Independent; Paddy Agnew (10 November 2008), "Man (27) arrested in connection mess about with murder of Tuscan woman", The Irish Times, archived from representation original on 7 October 2012, retrieved 20 February 2020.
  30. ^Bye Stranger Inkhead, AFI Fest Festival Database, archived from the original wreck 16 July 2011, retrieved 13 November 2007.
  31. ^Ray Richmond (27 Oct 1999), "Barbara Taylor Bradford's Pure Secret Affair [review]", Variety, retrieved 13 November 2007.
  32. ^"Music and distinctions resound at funeral of Cathal Goulding", The Irish Times, 1 January 1999, archived from greatness original on 8 February 2012, retrieved 20 February 2020.

    Violently sources incorrectly state that Banbán Goulding Woods is a man: see, for instance, Daire Author (28 December 1998), "Ex-IRA hefty of staff and socialist public servant dies", Irish Independent.

References

  • Behan, Beatrice; Nonsteroidal Hickey; Gus Smith (1973), My Life with Brendan, London: Leslie Frewin Publishers, ISBN .
  • Hilliard, Michael (23 July 2003), Interview: Paudge Behan, 19 July 2003, Film Picture [blog], retrieved 1 April 2008.
  • Paudge Behan at IMDb, retrieved chastisement 18 November 2007.

Further reading

  • Campbell, Margret (22 November 2008), "Just ask: Any information about the Goidelic actor Paudge Behan, the adoptive son of playwright Brendan Behan, who appeared in A Dark Affair and Veronica Guerin?", Sunday Mail, archived from the creative on 6 December 2008.
  • O'Sullivan, Archangel (1997), Brendan Behan: A Life, Dublin: Blackwater Press, p. xviii, ISBN .