1953 - Today
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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Among actors, Colm Meaney ranks 2,922 out of 9,996. Before 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.
1899 - 1985
HPI: 50.16
Rank: 2,916
1946 - 1995
HPI: 50.16
Rank: 2,917
1946 - 2006
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 2,918
1976 - Present
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 2,919
1904 - 1994
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 2,920
1948 - Present
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 2,921
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 2,922
1924 - 1963
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 2,923
1933 - 2010
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 2,924
1982 - Present
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 2,925
1933 - Present
HPI: 50.13
Rank: 2,926
1915 - 2016
HPI: 50.13
Rank: 2,927
1968 - Present
HPI: 50.13
Rank: 2,928
Among people born in 1953, Colm Meaney ranks 169. Before 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.
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.40
Rank: 163
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.38
Rank: 164
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 165
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 166
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.20
Rank: 167
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.19
Rank: 168
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 169
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.13
Rank: 170
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 171
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.08
Rank: 172
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.08
Rank: 173
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 174
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.02
Rank: 175
Among people born in Ireland, Colm Meaney ranks 139 out of 501. Before 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).
1888 - 1961
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 133
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.82
Rank: 134
1000 - 1012
HPI: 50.71
Rank: 135
1738 - 1775
HPI: 50.57
Rank: 136
1390 - 1411
HPI: 50.39
Rank: 137
1909 - 1974
HPI: 50.35
Rank: 138
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 139
1923 - 1964
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 140
1952 - Present
HPI: 50.06
Rank: 141
1898 - 2001
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 142
1820 - 1907
HPI: 50.01
Rank: 143
1903 - 1971
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 144
1868 - 1957
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 145
Among actors born in Ireland, Colm Meaney ranks 21. Before 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).
1923 - 1997
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 15
1958 - Present
HPI: 53.24
Rank: 16
1977 - Present
HPI: 52.45
Rank: 17
1961 - Present
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 18
1919 - 2005
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 19
1888 - 1961
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 20
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 21
1883 - 1955
HPI: 48.89
Rank: 22
1913 - 2005
HPI: 48.76
Rank: 23
1948 - Present
HPI: 48.52
Rank: 24
1972 - Present
HPI: 48.29
Rank: 25
1983 - Present
HPI: 48.10
Rank: 26
1919 - 2009
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 27