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Don Wycherley
Irish actor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Don Wycherley is an Irish actor. He played Father Cyril McDuff in Father Ted, Father Aidan O'Connell in Ballykissangel, and Raymond in Bachelors Walk.[1]
Wycherley is a fluent Irish speaker.[2] He is the brother-in-law of actress Tina Kellegher.[3] His father was Florence Wycherley, an independent Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork West from 1957 to 1961.[4]
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Career
A graduate of St Fachtna's in Skibbereen,[5] Wycherley trained in the Gaiety School of Acting,[6] Wycherley's acting career began in The Abbey in the 1990's.[7] He played Father Cyril, the Rugged Island version of Father Dougal McGuire.[7] He played leading man Raymond in RTÉ's Bachelors Walk.[6] In 2001, he appeared in Gerry Stembridge's Black Day at Black Rock, and in Eugene O'Brien's Eden.[8] In 2005, he starred in The Abbey's The Shaughraun.[9][10] In 2011, he portrayed US Civil War soldier Thomas Francis Meagher in a docuseries "Fág an Bealach".[11] On stage, he has played Paddy Armstrong of the Guildford Four.[12][13][14] In 2014 he played a Dingle fisherman in After Sarah Miles by Michael Hilliard Mulcahy.[15] He has performed in Conor McPherson's The Seafarer.[16]
In 2021, he played Minnie Driver's husband in the second season of Modern Love.[17]
In 2023, Wycherley was performing a scripted interaction with disabilities activist Rosaleen McDonagh, at an Oireachtas Joint Committee on Assisted Dying, when he was inadvertently interrupted by Senator Mary Seery Kearney who misunderstood the nature of the performance.[18] He is a qualified primary school teacher.[19][20]
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Personal life
Wycherly is married to Deirdre.[21] They have three children.[6]
Selected filmography
- Father Ted (TV series; 1995–1998)
- Michael Collins (1996)
- Ballykissangel (TV series; 1998–2001)
- The General (1998)
- One Man's Hero (1999)
- Bachelors Walk (TV series; 2001–2003)
- Veronica Guerin (2003)
- Shrooms (2007)
- Garage (2007)
- Perrier's Bounty (2009)
- Ondine (2009)
- Zonad (2009)
- Pentecost (short film; 2011)
- Scúp (TV series; 2013)
- Moone Boy (TV series; 2014)
- Sing Street (2016)[22]
- Wild Mountain Thyme (2020)
- Flora and Son (2023)
- Northern Lights (2023)[23]
IFTA Awards
References
External links
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