{"id":240903,"date":"2025-12-19T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/240903\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:34:12","slug":"irish-actor-wins-first-hollywood-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/240903\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish actor wins first Hollywood award"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a varied career in which he has played a psychopath, a romcom heart-throb, an intergalactic warlord and a plucky newspaper editor among others, Domhnall Gleeson has won his first Hollywood award.<\/p>\n

The US-Ireland Alliance announced that Gleeson will receive the Oscar Wilde award at the event\u2019s 20th anniversary in Los Angeles in March in the run-up to the Oscars. It honours a body of work rather than a particular performance.<\/p>\n

The Irish actor has received critical plaudits and nominations for film and TV performances, and has won Irish film and television awards and a Berlin international film festival award, but had not landed a major Hollywood prize.<\/p>\n

\u201cI first saw Domhnall in 2006 when he played the role of Davey in Martin McDonagh\u2019s play The Lieutenant of Inishmore,\u201d said Trina Vargo, the founder and president of the US-Ireland Alliance. \u201cHis talent was obvious 20 years ago, it\u2019s been a pleasure to watch him go from strength to strength, and we look forward to honouring him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The US-Ireland Alliance is a nonprofit that fosters ties between the countries and is credited with hosting one of the liveliest parties of Hollywood\u2019s award season. Previous award recipients include Jamie Dornan, Kenneth Branagh and Kerry Condon.<\/p>\n

\"DomhnallDomhnall Gleeson as Alan Milne and Margot Robbie as Daphne Milne in Goodbye Christopher Robin. File picture: David Appleby\/PA<\/p>\n

Next year\u2019s ceremony will also honour Maura Tierney, who starred in Twisters and is best known for the TV series ER.<\/p>\n

Gleeson made his name on indies and blockbuster film franchises such as Harry Potter and Star Wars and is a proliferating presence on TV shows.<\/p>\n

He plays the editor of a struggling Ohio newspaper in The Paper, a spin-off from the US version of The Office which follows the mockumentary format. He stars opposite Jessie Buckley in the forthcoming BBC Christmas special, The Scarecrows\u2019 Wedding and did voiceovers for Ken Burns\u2019 documentary The American Revolution.<\/p>\n

He has also appeared in two Apple TV productions, Guy Ritchie\u2019s Fountain of Youth, with John Krasinski and Natalie Portman, and Echo Valley, with Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney.<\/p>\n

An Esquire profile last month said Gleeson\u2019s performances have earned praise \u201ceven as he has somehow remained critically underrated\u201d. The article was headlined: \u201cWhy isn\u2019t everyone talking about Domhnall Gleeson?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DomhnallDomhnall Gleeson and Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn. File picture<\/p>\n

The Dubliner was nominated for a Tony for The Lieutenant of Inishmore in 2006 and for a Golden Globe in 2023 for The Patient, in which he plays a serial killer opposite Steve Carell, but has missed out on Emmy and Oscar nominations.<\/p>\n

The son of Brendan Gleeson, his filmography includes Ex Machina, Anna Karenina, True Grit, Brooklyn, Calvary, The Revenant and About Time, a time-travelling romcom. He played General Hux in the Star Wars reboot and Bill Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he\u2019s performing his appearance is almost fluid, absorbing the contours of his characters\u2019 expressions so thoroughly that he sometimes appears reconfigured,\u201d said Esquire. It noted his \u201calabaster skin and burnt-sienna eyebrows\u201d \u2013 a more lyrical description than the Guardian, which called Gleeson a \u201cginger Hugh Grant\u201d.<\/p>\n

\n \u2014\u00a0The Guardian\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a varied career in which he has played a psychopath, a romcom heart-throb, an intergalactic warlord and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[1201,18,117,19,17,5,1202],"class_list":{"0":"post-240903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-court-and-crime","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-politics-and-analysis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115746024155117634","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}