Tony Doyle

Actor

Ireland

Biography

Tony Doyle is an actor, writer, director and producer from Dublin, Ireland. He was the lead in the short film "11th Hour" opposite academy award nominee Salma Hayek. The film was directed by fellow Academy nominee Jim Sheridan. He has appeared in a host TV shows and movies that have screened at international film festivals like Tribecca, Sundance, Berlinale and TIFF.

Filmography

7.7

Kin

Gary Wright

The lives of a Dublin family embroiled in a gangland war and the consequences of their choices.

7.9

Sing Street

Wayne

A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

7.1

Red Rock

Carl

Starting on the day a long, dormant feud between two local families is brutally reignited, this continuing drama is based around a busy Dublin Garda station. On one side, the Hennessys, a local dynasty, whose name is above half the businesses in town. On the other side, the Kielys, who have turned petty crime into a cottage industry. Charting the life and dramas of a community about to be enveloped by a feud, through the eyes of those who police it, each episode will be a mix of 'crime of the week' stories and on-going serial arcs, following principle characters in both their professional and personal lives. A powerful and moving drama, Red Rock is a contemporary western, set in the shadow of Ireland's 'gold rush'.

6.2

Resistance

Ruairi O'Buachalla

This follow up to the Rebellion miniseries unfolds at the height of what became known as Ireland's War of Independence, and follows the lives of those caught up in the vicissitudes of history.

7.2

The Secret Scripture

Dessie

The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.

6.0

No Worries If Not!

Anto

Noisy, fast paced, comedy sketch show with quirky characters and off the wall sketches, featuring the biggest stars of Irish online comedy.

6.7

Stormskerry Maja

Captain Harris

Maja and Janne move to the barren and remote island of Stormskerry, where survival is a daily struggle. Growing up in a world of old values, Maja becomes aware of a new era: a woman can be an equal partner instead of a mere bystander. The couple have children, and life is good until trouble sets in: war arrives on the island, Janne is forced to flee from the English troops, and Maja and the children are imprisoned. The family also faces many financial difficulties and death. Years pass, but Maja remains strong and stays in Stormskerry despite all the hardships and difficulties.

9.0

The Flag

Gary

Builder Harry Hambridge is a down-on-his-luck paddy living in London. In one day he loses his job, father and beloved pet hamster, Mouse. On returning home to bury his father, he finds a statement from his Grandfather, claiming that it was he who raised the flag over the GPO during the 1916 Rising, which now hangs upside-down in an army barracks in England. Too long used to the mockery of his life, he sets out with his motley crew to find that “fecking flag” and maybe his passion for life along the way.

6.4

11th Hour

Firefighter

Based on a true story, 11th Hour recounts how, on the evening of 9/11, Maria Jose's bar is heaving with locals united in grief and a building rage.

6.7

Cardboard Gangsters

Tony

A group of young Cardboard Gangsters attempt to gain control of the drug trade in Darndale, chasing the glorified lifestyle of money, power and sex.

7.1

Dublin Oldschool

Young Addict

Join Jason on a chemically enhanced trip through the streets of Dublin as he stumbles from one misguided adventure to another. Somewhere between the DJs, decks, drug busts and hilltop raves, he stumbles across a familiar face from the past, his brother Daniel. Daniel is an educated homeless heroin addict living on the streets of Dublin. The brothers haven’t seen or spoken to each other in years but over a lost weekend they reconnect and reminisce over tunes, trips, their history and their city. Two brothers living on the edge but perhaps they have more in common than they think.

5.5

Kissing Candice

Sharkey

Candice longs to escape the boredom of her seaside town, but when a boy she dreams about turns up in real life, she becomes involved with a dangerous local gang.

N/A

A Different Kind of Day

Tony

A teen couple who have special needs are harassed by a gang. Their response to the attack changes the day for everyone.

7.0

Sunlight

Deano

When Leon, a recovering addict, discovers the terminally-ill sponsor he adores is planning to self-euthanise, he feels a sense of betrayal. He begs Iver - the man he sees as a hero - to watch the tribute show he's been preparing in his honour.

6.6

Michael Inside

Stephen Murphy

An 18-year-old man, living on a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather, is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and sentenced to 3 months in prison.

N/A

The Black Guelph

Virgil

Kanto, a small time drug dealer trying to get off the streets whose long absent father Cormac, an industrial school survivor, returns home looking for forgiveness and reconciliation.

N/A

For Molly

Robbie Brady

Uncertain about the future following a shock cancer diagnosis, a young father to be starts recording a series of home movie messages for soon to be born daughter in an attempt to offer some helpful fatherly advice and a document of who he is for when she is older.

7.0

Flicker

Stevo

‘Flicker’ is a portrait of Danny (Peter Newington), a typical twenty-something Dubliner, who gets assaulted one night in a city centre nightclub. Escaping the incident with only minor injuries, Danny throws himself back into his old routine: early-morning classes, five-a-side football, late nights on the sesh with the lads. Pretty soon, however, Danny begins to realise that the assault has affected him in more ways than one.

5.5

I Am Not a Monster

Ambrose Mordrake

A young man returns home uninvited to his brother's engagement dinner only to find himself fighting for his sanity against the violent, mind controlling growth on the back of his head. (ALTER)

10.0

Match

Him

Two strangers 'match' online and meet for a casual ride - of a Monday, no less. What they both expected is quickly turned on its head, as they both face their separate issues together over the course of one night.