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Peter Claffey
Irish actor and rugby union player (born 1996) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Peter Claffey (born 28 July 1996) is an Irish actor and former rugby union player.
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Early life
Claffey is from Portumna, in County Galway, he attended Garbally College and played rugby union for Galwegians RFC.[2][3]
Rugby union
Claffey played rugby union for Ballinasloe RFC and then University of Galway, subsequently joining Galwegians . A lock forward, he joined the Connacht Rugby academy in 2015. He played for Ireland national under-20 rugby union team in the 2016 Six Nations Under 20s Championship. He signed a professional contract with Connacht Rugby in 2018.[4][5] In 2019, he signed for Terenure College.[6]
Acting
Claffey trained in acting at the Bow Street Academy in Dublin. He made his professional stage debut in 2022 playing Iggy in Tom Murphy's A Whistle in the Dark at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.[7]
His onscreen career began in 2022 with television appearances on the shows Harry Wild and Apple TV dark comedy Bad Sisters.[8] That year, he played Cormac in BBC Three comedy series Wreck, for which he filmed a second series in 2023.[9]
Claffey appears in the third series of Vikings: Valhalla and the Cillian Murphy led film-adaptation of Small Things Like These.[10][11]
In April 2024, Claffey was cast in the Game of Thrones prequel series in the lead role of the legendary Ser Duncan the Tall—aka Dunk, in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, written by George R. R. Martin and Ira Parker. It is set a century before the events of Game of Thrones, but 72 years after the start of House of the Dragon.[12][13]
In 2024, he could be seen in season two of Bad Sisters, recast as the character Joe Walsh, love interest to Becka (Eve Hewson).[14]
Filmography
| † | Denotes works that have not yet been released |
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