Colm Meaney Biography, Movies and Tv Shows, the Snapper, Star Trek, Networth and Hell on Wheels
Colm Meaney born on 30th May 1953 is an Irish actor known for playing Miles O’Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He has guest-starred on many TV shows from Law & Order to The Simpsons, and starred as Thomas Durant on Hell on Wheels.
He has also had a significant career in motion pictures, and appeared in the film The Damned United, all three film adaptations of Roddy Doyle’s The Barrytown Trilogy, and in Get Him to the Greek, as well as Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.
Meaney was born in Glasnevin, Dublin. He began studying acting when he was 14 years old and entered the Abbey Theatre School of Acting after secondary school. He became a member of the Irish National Theatre and worked for the next eight years in England, touring with several theatre companies.
Meaney married Irish actress Bairbre Dowling in 1977, with whom he had a daughter, Brenda, in 1984. The couple divorced in 1994. He married French costume designer Ines Glorian in March 2007. They have a daughter together, Ada, born in 2005.
