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Place of birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Homepage: https://linktr.ee/gerardmccarthy

Movie Involvements: 4

TV Involvements: 3


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Biography

Gerard McCarthy Is an actor from Belfast, Northern Ireland. McCarthy was born in Belfast and attended St. Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School. They came out as non-binary in 2022 Gerard McCarthy was awarded Sir Kenneth Branagh's Renaissance Scholarship to train at Laine Theatre Arts, graduating in 2002. They currently play Kevin McSwain in BBC 2's BAFTA nominated drama The Fall, starring Gillian Anderson. On Netflix, they can be seen alongside Sir Derek Jacobi, Neve Campbell and Joely Richardson as Ashley Stokes in Titanic: Blood & Steel, an epic 12-part series charting the extraordinary construction of RMS Titanic in the shipyards of Edwardian Belfast. The series was nominated for 5 IFTA Awards including Best Series. They played Brondsted in the first episode of Michael Hirst's History Channel series Vikings, starring Gabriel Byrne. McCarthy also played Rory Thompson in Samson Films' Belonging to Laura, a modern-day adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan directed by Karl Golden, which was nominated for Best Single Drama at the IFTA Awards. McCarthy is known for his award-winning performance as Kris Fisher on the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2006 to 2010, for which he was nominated in the Best Newcomer category at the British Soap Awards and the National Television Awards.

Most Famous Work

Vikings
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Vikings

(2013) Brondsted
The Fall
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The Fall

(2013) Kevin McSwain
Belfast
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Belfast

(2021) Bobby Frank
Titanic: Blood and Steel
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7

Titanic: Blood and Steel

(2012) Ashley Stokes
A Nightingale Falling
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A Nightingale Falling

(2014) Captain Shearing
Belonging to Laura
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Belonging to Laura

(2009) Rory Thompson

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