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Michael McElhatton

1963 - Today

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Michael McElhatton (born 12 September 1963) is an Irish actor and writer. He is best known for playing the role of Roose Bolton in the HBO series Game of Thrones from the second to the sixth season (2012–2016). Other credits include I Went Down (1997), Paths to Freedom (2000), Saltwater (2000), Blow Dry (2001), The Actors (2003), Spin the Bottle (2003), Perrier's Bounty (2009), Albert Nobbs (2011), Death of a Superhero (2011), Pentecost (2012), The Fall (2013), The Hallow (2015), The Zookeeper's Wife (2017), Chernobyl (2019), Das Boot (2020), The Alienist: Angel of Darkness (2020), The Wheel of Time (2021), Jack Ryan (2022) and The Long Shadow (2023). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). Michael McElhatton is the 4,968th most popular actor (up from 6,551st in 2024), the 241st most popular biography from Ireland (up from 289th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Irish Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Michael McElhatton ranks 4,967 out of 13,578. Before him are Chandra Wilson, Corinne Griffith, Tess Harper, Pierre Coffin, and Kim Hee-sun. After him are Amanda Bearse, Molly Ringwald, Rosalind Chao, Alexa PenaVega, Bernadette Peters, Edward Platt, and Brian Murphy.

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Among people born in 1963, Michael McElhatton ranks 301. Before him are Angus Macfadyen, Henri Leconte, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Fisher Stevens, Toru Sano, and Gabriele Reinsch. After him are Taki Inoue, Jean-Marc Vallée, Kevin Smith, Kalusha Bwalya, Dylan Walsh, and Mohamed Ould Bilal.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Michael McElhatton ranks 241 out of 549. Before him are Margaret Mazzantini (1961), Hugh O'Flaherty (1898), Richard Kirwan (1733), Michael William Balfe (1808), Henry Kellett (1806), and George Salmon (1819). After him are Lena Rice (1866), Ronnie Drew (1934), Joe Kelly (1913), Oliver Plunkett (1625), Alicia Boole Stott (1860), and Charles Haughey (1925).

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Among ACTORS In Ireland

Among actors born in Ireland, Michael McElhatton ranks 34. Before him are Jason O'Mara (1972), Sinéad Cusack (1948), Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913), Andrew Scott (1976), Sara Allgood (1879), and Ray McAnally (1926). After him are Alison Doody (1966), Owen Moore (1886), Domhnall Gleeson (1983), Stuart Townsend (1972), Milo O'Shea (1926), and Evanna Lynch (1991).

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