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Colm Meaney

1953 - Today

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Colm J. Meaney (; Irish: Colm Ó Maonaigh; born 30 May 1953) is an Irish actor best known for playing Miles O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999). He has guest-starred on many TV shows including Law & Order and The Simpsons, and starred as Thomas C. Durant on Hell on Wheels (2011–2016). He has a career in films, appearing in Layer Cake, The Damned United, all three film adaptations of Roddy Doyle's The Barrytown Trilogy, and in Get Him to the Greek. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Colm Meaney has received more than 4,373,633 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Colm Meaney is the 2,375th most popular actor (up from 2,918th in 2019), the 113th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 138th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Irish Actor.

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  • 4.4M

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  • 52.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Colm Meaney ranks 2,375 out of 13,578. Before him are Elisha Cuthbert, Cheng Pei-pei, Madeleine Lebeau, Stana Katic, Nina Dobrev, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. After him are Dean Jones, Lam Ching-ying, Meryem Uzerli, Leopoldo Trieste, Sarah Paulson, and Michael Ballhaus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Colm Meaney ranks 154. Before him are Slavoljub Muslin, Leon Spinks, Robert Zoellick, Maryam Rajavi, Brigi Rafini, and Attilio Bettega. After him are Wim Mertens, Georgina Rizk, Lars Saabye Christensen, Tamir Pardo, Agathe Uwilingiyimana, and Dieter Hoeneß.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Colm Meaney ranks 113 out of 549. Before him are John Boland (1870), Roger Casement (1864), Richard Montgomery (1738), G. E. M. Anscombe (1919), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977), and Cornelius Ryan (1920). After him are Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760), Douglas Hyde (1860), Grace O'Malley (1530), George Abraham Grierson (1851), Daniel O'Connell (1775), and William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737).

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Among ACTORS In Ireland

Among actors born in Ireland, Colm Meaney ranks 18. Before him are Fionnula Flanagan (1941), Maureen O'Sullivan (1911), Liam Cunningham (1961), Edward Mulhare (1923), Fiona Shaw (1958), and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977). After him are Dan O'Herlihy (1919), Aidan Gillen (1968), Barry Fitzgerald (1888), Dorothea Jordan (1761), Ronan Keating (1977), and Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913).

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Television and Movie Roles

Law Abiding Citizen
Detective Dunnigan
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
Oct 15o 20097.4 / 10
No Way Up
Brandon
Characters from different backgrounds are thrown together when the plane they're travelling on crashes into the Pacific Ocean. A nightmare fight for survival ensues with the air supply running out and dangers creeping in from all sides.
Jan 18o 20246.384 / 10
Con Air
Agent Duncan Malloy
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
Jun 5o 19976.743 / 10