Actor

Paudge Behan

Born January 18, 1965 in Dublin, Ireland 12 films

Paudge Rodger Behan is an Irish actor and writer. The son of IRA Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding and Beatrice Behan, the widow of playwright Brendan Behan, Paudge Behan worked briefly as a journalist for a Dublin newspaper before turning to acting. After a series of minor film and television roles in the 1990s, he was handpicked by English novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford to appear as the male lead in a 1999 dramatisation of her book A Secret Affair (1996).

Behan has also appeared in the feature films A Man of No Importance (1994), Conspiracy of Silence (2003) and Veronica Guerin (2003), and has taken leading roles in two short films, A Lonely Sky (2006) and Wake Up (2007).

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First watchVeronica Guerin20036.7as Brian MeehanIn this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those…View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach

5.6Uncovered1995

4.3American Night2021

Filmography

12 films as actor

2023Made in Dublin
2021American NightDirty Donnie
2020Final CurtainBrendan Bloom
2018The OrchardLeonard
2006A Lonely SkyJack Reilly
2003Veronica GuerinBrian Meehan
2003Conspiracy of SilenceNiall
1999A Secret AffairBill Fitzgerald
1996Snakes and LaddersDan
1995UncoveredDomenec
1994A Man of No ImportanceKitty
1991London Kills MeWhite Thug at Party