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Patrick Bergin

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Patrick Connolly Bergin (born 4 February 1951) is an Irish actor and singer. In 1991, he starred opposite Julia Roberts in Sleeping with the Enemy and played the title character in Robin Hood. His other roles include terrorist Kevin O'Donnell in Patriot Games (1992) and the villainous Aidan Maguire in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (2017–2018).

Early life

Bergin was born in Dublin, where he grew up in Drimnagh. His father, Paddy Bergin, was a Labour Party politician who once studied to be a priest with the Holy Ghost Fathers in Blackrock, Ireland. Patrick was one of four sons and one daughter (Pearse, Emmet, Patrick, Allen and Siobhan Bergin). He left Dublin for London in 1973, and by the time he was 17 he was in London running a theatre company. He worked on building sites and at a library. He studied at night and completed an education degree from North London Polytechnic (later the University of North London). He was an English teacher for several years, then formed his own theatrical company because "no one else would have him". His brother Emmet Bergin also became an actor, best known for playing Dick Moran in the soap opera Glenroe for its full 1983–2001 run.

Career

In 1980, Bergin decided to pursue acting full-time and found work in repertory theatre. He played the explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton in Mountains of the Moon (1990) and followed this with diverse acting roles, including a trilogy of Yeats plays; Morphine and Dolly Mixtures, for which he won a BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actor; Durango, based on John B Keane's novel; hosting TnaG's Suilín Draíochta; and narrating Patrick Cassidy's Famine Remembrance. Bergin played the menacing husband of Julia Roberts' character in the thriller Sleeping with the Enemy (1991). In the same year he portrayed the Robin Hood in Robin Hood, opposite Uma Thurman as Maid Marian.

Bergin is also known for his role as Irish terrorist Kevin O'Donnell in the film adaptation of Tom Clancy's Patriot Games (1992). He described 1996 as the lowest point in his career, a time when he rarely received any calls for film roles. In 2013 he appeared in the Scottish film The Wee Man playing notorious Glasgow gangster Arthur 'The Godfather' Thompson. He joined the BBC soap opera EastEnders towards the end of 2017, departing in March 2018.

Music

Bergin leads the band Patrick Bergin and the Spirit Merchants. They had a top 10 hit in Ireland with their song "The Knacker", released in 2003, which tells the story of a person who recycles horse carrion and turns them into glue. As a singer, Bergin collaborated with Vlad DeBriansky and appeared on his album Jacks Last Dollar. He also appeared in the video of DJ Steve Mac's song "Paddy's Revenge".

Bergin was onstage singing the Leonard Cohen song "Anthem" as Pope Francis, on his visit to Ireland, arrived in Croke Park for the Festival of Families as part of the World Meeting of Families 2018.

Charity work

In 1993, Bergin bought an old church in County Tipperary and converted it into a poetry centre. He explained: "I've recently come to feel I can encourage children and teenagers with their writing. I'm continually giving groups money to make videos, but I insist that they have a good script. I do it because it makes the difference between them doing a video or not. It doesn't cost a lot, and it gives kids an incredible boost of confidence." In 1998, in response to the murder of a 14-year-old Tallaght boy, Ben Smyth, Bergin helped to establish a special fund to sponsor young children from Tallaght.

Personal life

At a wedding in the early 1980s, Bergin met his future wife, Paula Frazier. They married in Trinidad and Tobago in 1992. They have a daughter. After their divorce, Bergin began dating Helen Goldin.

Filmography

Film

1988	Taffin	Mo Taffin
1988	The Courier	Christy
1990	Mountains of the Moon	Richard Burton
1991	Sleeping with the Enemy	Martin Burney
1991	Robin Hood	Robin Hood
1992	Highway to Hell	Beezle
	Love Crimes	David Hanover
	Map of the Human Heart	Walter Russell
	Patriot Games	Kevin O'Donnell
	The Hummingbird Tree	Stephen Holmes
1993	All Tied Up	Bartender (uncredited)	Direct-to-Video
1994	Double Cross	Jack Conealy	Direct-to-Video
1994	Soft Deceit	Adam Trent
1996		Dr. Benjamin Trace
	The Proposition	Rhys Williams
	Angela Mooney	Older Malone
1997	The Island on Bird Street	Stefan
1997	Suspicious Minds	Jack Ramsey
1998	The Lost World	Challenger
1999	Treasure Island	Billy Bones
	Promise Her Anything	Vernon Fry
	One Man's Hero	General Winfield Scott
	Eye of the Beholder	Alexander Leonard
	Escape Velocity	Cal "Captain of the Harbinger"
	Africa	John Young
2000	Press Run	Alex Dodge
	When the Sky Falls	Mackey
		King Arthur
2001	Cause of Death	Taylor Lewis
	The Invisible Circus	Gene
	High Explosive	Jack Randall
	Devil's Prey	Minister Seth
	Silent Grace	Peter, IRA man
	Amazons and Gladiators	Crassius
2002	Beneath Loch Ness	Blay
2003	Bloom	The citizen
2003	The Boys from County Clare	Padjo
2004	Ella Enchanted	Sir Peter
	Berserker	Thorsson
	High Art, Low Life	Cameron's Driver
2006	Johnny Was	Flynn
	False Prophets	Karl Hawthorne
	Played	Riley
	Secret of the Cave	Patrick Wallace
	The Far Side of Jericho	Jake
2007	Casanova's Last Stand	Casanova
	Babyface	John Roth
	The Black Pimpernel	US Ambassador
	Strength and Honour	Papa Boss
2008	Dick Dickman P.I.	unknown role
2008	Ghostwood	Fr Paul
2010	Eva	Oswald
2011	The McBrearty Affair	Narrator	Short Film
	A Kiss and a Promise	Detective Anthony Dolan
	Birthday	Hugo
	Perfect Day	Rick's Father
2012	Eldorado	Roy	Direct-to-Video
	Absolute Fear	Captain Morrow
	Songs for Amy	Patrick
	Shark Week	Tiburon
	Gallowwalkers	Marshall Gaza
	Angel	Successful Man	Short Film
2013	The Wee Man	Arthur Thompason
	Dance of the Steel Bars	Frank
	The Minnitts of Anabeg	Lord Goode
2014	Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest	Standartenfuhrer Kummel
2015	Age of Kill	Sir Alistair Montcrief
2016	Free Fire	Howie
	We Still Steal the Old Way	George Briggs
	Cage	Peter Karl Bradley
2017	Native	Irish Man	Short Film
2017	Roth	John Roth
2018	Train Set	Major Julian Muir
2019	Odilo Fabian or (The Possibility of Impossible Dreams)	The Mayor of Doubt	Short Film
2020	The Last Days of American Crime	Rossi Dumois
2021	Finding You	Seamus
2021	The Kindred	Father Monroe
2022	God's Petting You	The American
	Blackbird	The Head
	The Ulysses Project	Buck Mulligan / Leopold Bloom
	Nutcracker Massacre	Dmitri / Toymaker
2023	One Ranger	Doc

Television

1983	Those Glory Glory Days	Spurs Team Member	TV Movie
1987	Boon	DS Beecher	"Credit Where It's Due"
1987	Lapsed Catholics	Paul McNally	TV Movie
1988	Act of Betrayal	Michael McGurk	Miniseries (2 episodes)
1990	The Real Charlotte	Roderick Lambert	Miniseries (3 episodes)
1991	Screen Two	Terence O'Farrell	"Morphine and the Dolly Mixtures"
1992	Frankenstein	Dr. Victor Frankenstein	TV Movie
1993	Children of the Mist	Mark Samules	TV Movie
1994		Dr. Benjamin Ramsey	TV Movie (segment "Where the Dead Are")
1995	Triple Cross	Jimmy Ray	TV Movie
1996	The Witch's Daughter	Mr. Smith
1997	The Apocalypse Watch	Drew Latham
		Daniel Morgan
	The Ripper	Inspector Jim Hansen
1999	Durango	Fergus Mullaney
1999	Expedition Journal	N/A	Assistant Producer (1 episode)
2000		Patrick	TV Movie
2001	Jewel	Leston Hilburn
2002	King of Texas	Mr. Highsmith
2002	Dracula	Count Dracula	2 episodes
2003	Brush with Fate	Headmaster	TV Movie
2003	Smallville	Morgan Edge	"Shattered"
2005	Icon	Igor Komarov	TV Movie
2005	Casanova's Love Letters	Casanova	Miniseries (1 episode)
2006	Driven	Gerald Workman	"#1.1"
2009	Hustle	Toby Baxter	"Diamond Seeker"
2011	Ice	Quinn	Miniseries (2 episodes)
2016	Fir Bolg	Sean Seoige	2 episodes
2017	No Offence	Earl Kennedy	"#2.1"
2017	Red Rock	Jim Tierney	recurring role (7 episodes)
2017–2018	EastEnders	Aidan Maguire	series regular (32 episodes)
2018	Quantico	Liam Killoran	"Who Are You?"
2019	Wild Bill	Frank McGill	"Nothing Behind the Curtain"
2020	The South Westerlies	Big Mike	recurring role (6 episodes)
2024		Niall Walsh	"Touts"

Awards and nominations

1989	AACTA Awards	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Mini Series	Act of Betrayal
1992	BAFTA Cymru	Best Actor (Yr Actor Gorau)	Screen Two
1992	Saturn Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Sleeping with the Enemy
2018	International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema	Best Supporting Actor	Train Set
2018	Madrid International Film Festival	Best Supporting Actor	Train Set

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