Malachy McCourt

Malachy McCourt was born in Brooklyn, USA and from the age of three was raised in Limerick, Ireland. A very undistinguished academic career plus the need to eat led him to leave school at the age of thirteen to begin work in Ireland and England as a laborer. He returned to the land of his birth at the age of twenty and again worked at the manual tasks such as longshoreman, truck loader and dishwasher, until he became an actor. That career took him to Broadway and Off-Broadway and regional theatres in plays such as Mass Appeal, DA, The Hostage, Inherit the Wind, Carousel, and Translations. The soap operas such a Ryan's Hope, Search for Tomorrow, and One Life to Live were also a good source of work and sustenance as were the movies Molly Maguires, She's the One, The Devils Own, Green Card, and TV movies such a You Can't Go Home Again and the Dain Curse. Other screencredits include Happy Hour, Guru of Sex, Gods and Generals, The Last Run, and Ash Wednesday plus a running part in the HBO prison series Oz.