Colm Meaney

Gender: Male
Born: 30th May 1953 (currently 58 years old)
Nationality: Republic of Ireland
TV programs: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Life on Mars, Boom! Boom!, Alice, ZOS: Zone of Separation, 60 Minute Man, Scarlett, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, The Murdoch Mysteries (2004), One Life to Live, Hell on Wheels, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Movies: Caved In: Prehistoric Terror, Layer Cake, Monument Ave., The Commitments, Into the West, War of the Buttons, Intermission, The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns, Mystery, Alaska, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, Con Air, Die Hard 2, The Snapper, Under Siege, Dick Tracy, Kings, The Last of the High Kings, Five Fingers, The Van, Come See the Paradise, Random Passage, Bad Apple, October 22, The Damned United, Three and Out, Law Abiding Citizen, King of Texas, Turning Green, Far and Away, This Is My Father, Get Him to the Greek, The Boys From County Clare, Covert One: The Hades Factor, The Dead, The Last of the Mohicans, Bel Ami, Claire Dolan, Nouvelle-France, A Lobster Tale, The Race, Chapter Zero, Four Days, The Road to Wellville, Parked, The Conspirator, How Harry Became a Tree, Alleged, Whole Lotta Sole, The Perfect Stranger

Colm J. Meaney ( /ˈkɒləm/; Irish: Colm Ó Maonaigh; born 30 May 1953) is an Irish actor widely known for playing 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 TV shows from Law & Order to The Simpsons. He has also had a significant career in motion pictures, appearing in the British sports film The Damned United.

Meaney was born in Dublin. He started studying acting when he was fourteen years of age, and entered the Abbey Theatre School of Acting after secondary school. He became a member of the Irish National Theatre and spent the next eight years in England, touring with several theatre companies.

Meaney's first television appearance was in Z-Cars on BBC1 in 1978. He guest-starred on shows such as Remington Steele and Moonlighting before embarking on a successful film career; he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor for his role in The Snapper.

Meaney first appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation in its 1987 pilot episode, "Encounter At Farpoint", as an unnamed helm officer. His character became a frequently recurring one, and

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