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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 4,085,050 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Colm Meaney is the 2,922nd most popular actor (up from 2,999th in 2019), the 139th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 156th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Irish Actor.

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  • 4.1M

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  • 50.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Colm Meaney ranks 2,922 out of 9,996Before him are Gale Sondergaard, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Andreas Katsulas, Alicia Silverstone, Lili Damita, and Mercedes Ruehl. After him are Sabu Dastagir, Zelda Rubinstein, Priyanka Chopra, Siân Phillips, Vladimir Zeldin, and Julian McMahon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Colm Meaney ranks 169Before him are Pat Benatar, Dieter Hoeneß, Andreas Vollenweider, Mohammed Waheed Hassan, Raoul Peck, and James Russo. After him are Norman Finkelstein, José Costa, Gali Atari, Slavoljub Muslin, Richard Bremmer, and Ivica Šurjak.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Colm Meaney ranks 139 out of 501Before him are Barry Fitzgerald (1888), Sally Oldfield (1947), Coloman of Stockerau (1000), Richard Montgomery (1738), Anne de Mortimer (1390), and Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (1909). After him are Brendan Behan (1923), Pat Cox (1952), Ninette de Valois (1898), William Howard Russell (1820), Kathleen Lonsdale (1903), and John Sealy Townsend (1868).

Among ACTORS In Ireland

Among actors born in Ireland, Colm Meaney ranks 21Before him are Edward Mulhare (1923), Fiona Shaw (1958), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977), Liam Cunningham (1961), Dan O'Herlihy (1919), and Barry Fitzgerald (1888). After him are Tom Moore (1883), Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913), Sinéad Cusack (1948), Jason O'Mara (1972), Domhnall Gleeson (1983), and Richard Todd (1919).

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