ACTOR

Mark O'Brien

1984 - Today

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Mark O'Brien (born May 7, 1984) is a Canadian actor and director best known for his roles as Des Courtney in Republic of Doyle and Tom Rendon in Halt and Catch Fire. He won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards for his performance as Terry Sawchuk in the biographical drama film Goalie.At the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 he received two nominations for his film The Righteous, for both Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mark O'Brien has received more than 12,720 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Mark O'Brien is the 12,661st most popular actor (down from 11,353rd in 2019), the 1,284th most popular biography from Canada (down from 1,126th in 2019) and the 424th most popular Canadian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 13k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 28.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Mark O'Briens by language

Over the past year Mark O'Brien has had the most page views in the with 10,610 views, followed by Spanish (6,092), and Italian (5,378). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Afrikaans (51.71%), Armenian (43.84%), and Korean (17.01%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Mark O'Brien ranks 12,661 out of 13,578. Before him are Jemima Rooper, Todd Lasance, Dominique Fishback, Dylan Bruce, Aarthi Agarwal, and Frankie Shaw. After him are Stark Sands, Shazad Latif, David Dorfman, Johnny Pacar, Griffin Gluck, and Bobby Moynihan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Mark O'Brien ranks 1,041. Before him are Daniela Samulski, Carlo Molfetta, Aarthi Agarwal, Kei Kamara, Dustin Johnson, and Gilsinho. After him are Márcio Vieira, Modou Sougou, Anna Frolina, Jessica Lindell-Vikarby, Ioana Rotaru, and Adrián Colunga.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Mark O'Brien ranks 1,284 out of 1,622. Before him are Nathan Smith (1985), Dwight Powell (1991), Rekha Sharma (1970), Alexandre Bilodeau (1987), Marnie McBean (1968), and Dylan Bruce (1980). After him are Lars Hirschfeld (1978), Kevin Martin (1966), Kaetlyn Osmond (1995), Shea Weber (1985), Scott Bairstow (1970), and Jenn Proske (1987).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Mark O'Brien ranks 424. Before him are Cindy Busby (1983), Lorne Cardinal (1964), Landon Liboiron (1991), Aryana Engineer (2001), Rekha Sharma (1970), and Dylan Bruce (1980). After him are Scott Bairstow (1970), Jenn Proske (1987), Kyle Schmid (1984), Eric Bauza (1979), Nicole Oliver (1970), and Conchita Campbell (1995).

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Television and Movie Roles

Arrival
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Ready or Not
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Marriage Story
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