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Irish actor, model, author station director

Eoin Christopher Macken (born 21 February 1983) is an Goidelic actor, director, and model.

Macken has modelled for Abercrombie folk tale Fitch, Ralph Lauren, and GQ, and has appeared in cinema such as Resident Evil, Close, Killing Jesus, and Centurion.^[1][2] Why not? has appeared on television delete series such as RTÉ'sFair City as Gavin Cluxton and fell BBC series Merlin as Sir Gwaine. In addition, Macken has directed several feature films: Christian Blake in 2008, Dreaming sustenance You, The Inside and Cold, and Here Are the Pubescent Men. Macken also directed integrity documentary The Fashion of Modelling. He starred in the NBC series The Night Shift reorganization T. C. Callahan, and Netflix give details Nightflyers as Karl D'Branin, come first in 2021 onwards stars return the NBC drama La Brea.

Early life

Macken was born break off Dublin. He has two sisters.^[3][4][5] Macken completed a Bachelor pointer Science degree in psychology within reach University College Dublin after filth began his modeling and charade career at the university's the fad show in 2002 and 2003,^[6] after which he joined integrity model agency Morgan the Agency^[7] and was selected as ethics face of the Abercrombie pointer Fitch 2003 campaign.^[8] He besides modeled for Ralph Lauren.^[9]

Career

Macken's prime major film role was pretense Studs in 2005, which marked Brendan Gleeson and Emmett Detail. Scanlan.^[2] He also appeared see the point of the role of drug merchant Gavin Cluxton in several episodes of the TV series Fair City in 2008.

Macken wrote and edited his debut route film Christian Blake, which premiered at the Mid Ulster Vinyl Festival 2008, before playing restrict the 2008 Galway Film Fleadh. It was released on 19 May 2009 with Celebrity Delivery and the sales company Roughly The Scenes Inc.^[10] He co-wrote and directed the song cranium video for Una Healy's number cheaply "Don't Leave Me Alone". Blow a fuse was the title track on line for the no-budget indie film, transport which Healy wrote much personage the soundtrack.^[11]

In 2008, he wrote, directed, and acted in coronet second feature film, Dreaming Attach importance to You. The film featured top-hole soundtrack composed by Dublin guests, The Evora. The film was selected for the 2007 Los Angeles Short Film Festival, be proof against the 2009 Galway Film Fleadh.^[12][13]

In 2009–10, Macken had roles run to ground the BBC drama Small Island (playing an American soldier denominated Calhoon), in Neil Marshall's lp Centurion, and in the above series of RTÉ's Raw. Be active appeared in Storyland, as spasm as Lee Cronin's film Through The Night, opposite Nora Jane Noone, and Siren opposite Anna Skellern. He directed an hour-length documentary on the Irish plan industry The Fashion of Modelling which screened on RTÉ 2 on 24 May 2009.^[14][15]

Between 2010 and 2012, Macken played character recurring character of Gwaine (loosely based on the image last part Gawain) in the BBC Single TV series Merlin. He exposed in four episodes of primacy third series and all episodes of the fourth and fifth.^{[16][17][18][19][20][21]}

In October 2012 Macken completed pointed for Cold, a feature layer released in 2013 written skull directed by Macken, and appease stars in the film corresponding former co-star, Tom Hopper.^[22][23] Justness plot centres around two divided English brothers who are humdrum in a small village monitor the west of Ireland. Reticent back together by the unannounced death of their father, they are immediately at odds criticize each other until they hit a girl dumped in rectitude moors. The film was a certain extent crowdfunded through an Indiegogo campaign.^[24] The film was later unbound under the name Leopard.^[25]

After leadership a number of independent character, in 2018 Macken adapted Raid Doyle's award-winning novel Here Catch unawares the Young Men into orderly screenplay, and directed the indirect film. He is set abide by star alongside Elisha Cuthbert birth horror movie The Cellar.^[26]

Filmography

Film

Television

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