Colm Meaney
Acting • Born 1953-05-30
Biography
Colm J. Meaney (born May 30, 1953) is an Irish actor. He is widely known for playing Chief Miles O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He is second only to Michael Dorn in most appearances in Star Trek episodes. He has guest starred on many other television shows, from Law & Order to The Simpsons, and has a significant career in motion pictures.
Filmography
151 credits
Die Hard 2
Movie • 1990
Windsor Plane - Pilot
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
Movie • 2003
Jimmy
The Ballad of Davy Crockett
Movie • 2024
Caleb
Con Air
Movie • 1997
Agent Duncan Malloy
Renegade
Movie • 2004
Jimmy McClure
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Movie • 1995
Morgan the Goat
The Road to Wellville
Movie • 1994
Dr. Lionel Badger
Layer Cake
Movie • 2004
Gene
Monument Ave.
Movie • 1998
Jackie O'Hara
Law Abiding Citizen
Movie • 2009
Detective Dunnigan
Far and Away
Movie • 1992
Kelly
The Damned United
Movie • 2009
Don Revie
Five Fingers
Movie • 2006
Gavin
The Van
Movie • 1996
Larry
The Commitments
Movie • 1991
Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.
This Is My Father
Movie • 1999
Seamus
Bring Them Down
Movie • 2025
Ray
No Way Up
Movie • 2024
Brandon
Get Him to the Greek
Movie • 2010
Jonathan Snow
The Snapper
Movie • 1993
Dessie Curley
The Gambler: The Legend Continues
Movie • 1987
Tinkerer
Marlowe
Movie • 2023
Bernie Ohls
Caved In: Prehistoric Terror
Movie • 2006
Vincent
Unnatural Causes
Movie • 2008
Trevor Jones
The Conspirator
Movie • 2011
David Hunter
Three and Out
Movie • 2008
Tommy Cassidy
Mystery, Alaska
Movie • 1999
Mayor Scott Pitcher
The Last of the High Kings
Movie • 1996
Jim Davern
Intermission
Movie • 2003
Jerry Lynch
Claire Dolan
Movie • 1998
Roland Cain
King of Texas
Movie • 2002
Mr. Tumlinson
Omega Syndrome
Movie • 1986
Sean
Kings
Movie • 2007
Joe Mullan
The Dead
Movie • 1987
Mr. Bergin
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior
Movie • 1995
Miles O'Brien
Save the Cinema
Movie • 2022
Martyn
Bad Apple
Movie • 2004
Gibbons
A Lobster Tale
Movie • 2006
Cody
Alleged
Movie • 2010
H.L. Mencken
Journey's End - The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Movie • 1994
Self
The Legend of the Happy Worker
Movie • 2025
The Problem with People
Movie • 2024
Ciáran
Battle of the Brave
Movie • 2004
Benjamin Franklin
Backflash
Movie • 2002
Gin O'Malley
Parked
Movie • 2010
Fred Daly
Bel Ami
Movie • 2012
Monsieur Rousset
The Perfect Stranger
Movie • 2011
Mark O'Reilly
The Hot Potato
Movie • 2011
Harry
How Harry Became a Tree
Movie • 2002
Harry
Soldiers of Fortune
Movie • 2012
Mason
Whole Lotta Sole
Movie • 2011
Detective Weller
The Race
Movie • 2009
Frank Kensay
Free Birds
Movie • 2013
Myles Standish (voice)
One Chance
Movie • 2013
Roland Potts
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Movie • 2013
Patt Farrell
Owd Bob
Movie • 1998
Keith Moore
A Belfast Story
Movie • 2013
Detective
Chapter Zero
Movie • 1999
Frank Lazaras
Pelé: Birth of a Legend
Movie • 2016
George Raynor
Random Passage
Movie • 2002
Thomas Hutchings
Under Siege
Movie • 1992
Daumer
Easter 2016
Movie • 1982
Kevin Murphy
Four Days
Movie • 1999
Fury
Duchess
Movie • 2024
Frank Monaghan
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Movie • 2023
Robert McQue
Money Kings
Movie • 1998
Al Sheehan
The Yank
Movie • 2014
Fintan McGuire
There's Always Hope
Movie • 2023
Jonathan
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes
Movie • 1993
Himself
Three Day Millionaire
Movie • 2022
Mr. Barr
Norm of the North
Movie • 2016
Grandfather (voice)
Nailed
Movie • 1981
Younger Protestant
October 22
Movie • 1998
Steve
The New Explorers: The Science of Star Trek
Movie • 1995
Self
The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations
Movie • 1996
Self
A Dangerous Arrangement
Movie • 2015
Leslie
Re-Creation
Movie • 2025
Ian Bailey
The Journey
Movie • 2017
Martin McGuinness
The Secrets of Emily Blair
Movie • 2016
Father Avital
The Cold Light of Day
Movie • 2012
Bandler
I Am Your Father
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
War of the Buttons
Movie • 1994
Geronimo's Dad
Halal Daddy
Movie • 2017
Martin Logan
Perfect Witness
Movie • 1989
Meagher
National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Movie • 2018
Big Daddy
Tolkien
Movie • 2019
Father Francis Morgan
Seberg
Movie • 2019
Frank Ellroy
Dick Tracy
Movie • 1990
Cop at Tess'
Into the West
Movie • 1992
Barreller
Pelé: Birth of a Legend
Movie • 2016
Coach George Raynor
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Movie • 2018
Self
The Banker
Movie • 2020
Patrick Barker
The Murdoch Mysteries: Poor Tom Is Cold
Movie • 2004
Inspector Brackenreid
The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying
Movie • 2004
Inspector Brackenreid
The Last Right
Movie • 2019
Detective Donall Crowley
Turning Green
Movie • 2005
Tom
Pixie
Movie • 2020
Dermot O'Brien
The Flight of the Swan
Movie • 2011
Giannopoulos
The Devil's Hand
Movie • 2014
Elder Beacon
The Last of the Mohicans
Movie • 1992
Major Ambrose
Deep Space Nine: Ending an Era
Movie • 2003
Self
Unwelcome
Movie • 2023
Colm “Daddy” Whelan
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds
Movie • 2013
Chief Miles O'Brien (archive footage)
Come See the Paradise
Movie • 1990
Gerry McGurn
Confession
Movie • 2022
Father Peter
The Monkey
Movie • 2021
MacDonell
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Movie • 2026
Shelter Me
Movie
Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
Movie • 1996
Self
Muide Éire
Movie • 2011
Himself
The Panic
Movie
J. Pierpont Morgan
Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things...
Movie • 2014
Miles O'Brien
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes
Movie
Jack
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Tom O'Flanagan (voice)
Hell on Wheels
TV • 2011
Thomas 'Doc' Durant
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
TV • 1993
Miles O'Brien
Star Trek: The Next Generation
TV • 1987
Miles O'Brien
Gargoyles
TV • 1994
Mr. Dugan (voice)
Men in Trees
TV • 2006
Bob O'Donnell
The Unit
TV • 2006
MacGyver
TV • 1985
Irwin Malcolm
Tales from the Darkside
TV • 1984
Constable
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
TV • 1993
Jake Slicker
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Harold Garrett
ZOS: Zone of Separation
TV • 2009
George Titac
Mercy
TV • 2009
Brooklyn Bridge
TV • 1991
The Murdoch Mysteries
TV • 2004
Inspector Brackenreid
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Wyatt Landon
Alice
TV • 2009
King of Hearts
Stargate Atlantis
TV • 2004
Cowen
The Driver
TV • 2014
The Horse
Back to Barrytown
TV • 2021
Self / Narrator
Fúria
TV • 2021
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
TV • 1999
Seamus Muldoon
Will
TV • 2017
James Burbage
Covert One: The Hades Factor
TV • 2006
Peter Howell
Childhood's End
TV • 2015
Wainwright
Moonlighting
TV • 1985
Keterina Suitor (as Colm Meany)
The Santa Stories
TV • 2023
The No Man/ Bill
Gangs of London
TV • 2020
Finn Wallace
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
TV • 2005
Shelley Kelly
The Serpent Queen
TV • 2022
Francis I of France
The Singapore Grip
TV • 2020
Major Brendan Archer
Random Passage
TV • 2002
The Late Late Show
TV • 1962
Self
The Cowboy
TV • 2016
Self
Safe Harbor
TV • 2025
Kieran Walsh
Scary Tales of New York
TV • 2023
Storyteller
Scarlett
TV • 1994
Father Colum O'Hara
Strangers
TV • 1978
Peter Smolett