John Lynch
Acting • Born 1961-12-26
Biography
John Lynch (born 26 December 1961) is an Irish actor and novelist from Northern Ireland. He won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actor for the 1995 film Angel Baby. His other film appearances include Cal (1984), The Secret Garden (1993), In the Name of the Father (1993), Sliding Doors (1998), The Fall (2013–2016), Medici (2019), The Head (2020), and The Banishing (2021). Lynch has also written two novels, Torn Water (2005) and Falling Out of Heaven (2010).
Filmography
83 credits
Sliding Doors
Movie • 1998
Gerry
Angel Baby
Movie • 1995
Harry
Alien Hunter
Movie • 2003
Dr. Michael Straub
Hardware
Movie • 1990
Shades
The Tournament
Movie • 2009
Gene Walker
In the Name of the Father
Movie • 1993
Paul Hill
In Tranzit
Movie • 2008
Yakov
Isolation
Movie • 2005
Dan
Black Death
Movie • 2010
Wolfstan
Cal
Movie • 1984
Cal
The Secret of Roan Inish
Movie • 1994
Tadhg
Lassie
Movie • 2005
Sam Carraclough
Edward II
Movie • 1991
Spencer
Holy Water
Movie • 2009
Tom Gaffney
This Is the Sea
Movie • 1997
Padhar McAliskey
Starting Tomorrow I'll Get Up Late
Movie • 2023
13Hrs
Movie • 2010
McRae
Out of the Blue
Movie • 1991
Rudy
Conspiracy of Silence
Movie • 2003
Ghosted
Movie • 2011
Jack
Best
Movie • 2000
George Best
The Quarry
Movie • 1998
The Man
The Yellow House
Movie • 2007
Paul Gaugin
Private Peaceful
Movie • 2012
Sergeant Hanley
Möbius
Movie • 2013
Joshua
1871
Movie • 1990
O'Brien
Moll Flanders
Movie • 1996
Fielding
Scintilla
Movie • 2014
Powell
Monkey Boy
Movie • 1992
Peter Carson
Some Mother's Son
Movie • 1996
Bobby Sands
Sew Torn
Movie • 2025
Hudson Armitage
Pilgrimage
Movie • 2017
The Herbalist - Brother Ciaran
Night of the Hunt
Movie • 2011
Narrator (voice)
Detour
Movie • 2017
Frank Malone
Who Bombed Birmingham?
Movie • 1990
IRA man in cottage
The Secret Garden
Movie • 1993
Lord Archibald Craven
The Watchers
Movie • 2024
Kilmartin
Alleycats
Movie • 2016
Redman
Upstream
Movie • 2017
Sean
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Movie • 2004
Captain Alvarado
Nothing Personal
Movie • 1996
Liam
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
Movie • 1988
Stephen Dedalus
The Seventh Stream
Movie • 2001
Tomas Dunhill
The Railway Station Man
Movie • 1992
Damian Sweeney
Mo
Movie • 2010
Gerry Adams
Kissing Candice
Movie • 2018
Donal
Number One
Movie • 2017
Gary
Puckoon
Movie • 2002
O'Brien
Paul, Apostle of Christ
Movie • 2018
Aquila
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Movie • 2000
Sean O'Casey
Waiting Tables
Movie • 1986
Words Upon the Window Pane
Movie • 1994
John Corbet
Boys from County Hell
Movie • 2021
George Bogue
Princess Caraboo
Movie • 1994
Amon McCarthy
The Banishing
Movie • 2021
Malachi
Caravan
Movie • 2020
Sam
Evelyn
Movie • 2002
Senior Counsel Mr. Wolfe
Bleak House
TV • 2005
Nemo / Captain James Hawdon
Silent Witness
TV • 1996
Tom Flannery
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Tomas Dunhill
Trial & Retribution
TV • 1997
Movie Connections
TV • 2007
Self
The Passion
TV • 2008
Sagan
Chimera
TV • 1991
Peter Carson
Natural World
TV • 1983
Narrator
Blue Lights
TV • 2023
James McIntyre
Labyrinth
TV • 2012
Simeon de Montfort
The Fall
TV • 2013
Jim Burns
Peak Practice
TV • 1993
Father Mel Davey
Vera
TV • 2011
Edmund Fulwell
Crossing Lines
TV • 2013
Frankie
The Jury
TV • 2002
Alan Lane
Merlin
TV • 2008
Balinor
One of Us
TV • 2016
Bill Douglas
Making Out
TV • 1989
Shetland
TV • 2013
Frank Blake
All Good Things
TV • 1991
Vincent Gibney
The Trials of Jimmy Rose
TV • 2015
DI Steve McIntyre
The Assets
TV • 2014
Vitaly Yurchenko
Spooks
TV • 2002
Davie King
The Head
TV • 2020
Arthur Wilde
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
TV • 1988
Stephen Dedalus
Boston Public
TV • 2000
Jerry