Stephen Rea
Stephen Rea
Stephen Reais an Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in high-profile films such as V for Vendetta, Michael Collins, Interview with the Vampire and Breakfast on Pluto. Rea was nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance as Fergus in the 1992 film The Crying Game. He has during later years had important roles in the Hugo Blick TV series The Shadow Line and The Honourable Woman, for which he won a BAFTA Award...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth31 October 1946
CountryIreland
I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are.
I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.
I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.
I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.
At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.
At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?
Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.
Acting is way of making yourself exist.
I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.
People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.