Born in Dublin in the '60s, the first nine years of Brian's life were
spent in Ireland before his family relocated to North London to set up
work in the pub trade. Missing his homeland too much he decided to
return home eight years later on his own aged 17, and got to work
straight away in everything from catering, labouring, factory work,
whatever he could get his hands on.
He met his wife Polly in his early twenties and went on to have two
sons, Larry and Kevin.
Brian was always interested in acting but had never got round to giving
it a shot due to family commitments, until one day in his late 30s he
finally bit the bullet and signed up for the Introduction To Acting
course at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. That was it, he was
hooked, and continued his training going from class to class,
eventually getting involved in low budget short films and features, and
then progressing to TV and bigger budget work. Brian has just finished
filming for the latest HBO series Game of Thrones, due to be screened
early 2011.
Played the role of an officially unnamed Senior Night's Watch Officer (a steward) in the first season of Game of Thrones before being invited back to play the role of a different Night's Watch officer, Othell Yarwyck, in season four.
Son received a shirt with cast members' signatures on it and posted it on Reddit.