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He’s popped up in random blockbusters – a slimy DEA agent in Con Air, a corpse in Last of the Mohicans – as well as Irish and British classics including The Commitments, The Damned United and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. On TV he’s had key roles in Gangs of London, the latest series of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and 211 episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Colm Meaney currently has five films and a miniseries in the works, but in his, the Irish actor plays a priest who goes to hell and back after a wounded gunman – Stephen Moyer – charges into his church. The pair undergo a reckoning in hope of redemption.

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