List of Famous people born in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Karen Hassan
Karen Hassan is an Northern Irish actress, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. From 2010 until 2013 she played Lynsey Nolan in the main series of Hollyoaks. Her work includes roles in Hollyoaks Later and Hunger.
Valene Kane
Valene Kane is an Irish actress. She is perhaps best known for her performances in all three series of BBC Two's BAFTA nominated The Fall, in which she played Jamie Dornan's first lover, Rose Stagg.
Ian Beattie
Ian Beattie is a Northern Irish actor. He is best known for playing Antigonus in the film Alexander (2004) and Ser Meryn Trant in the television series Game of Thrones (2011–2015).
Damian McGinty
Damian Joseph McGinty Jr. is an actor and singer from Derry, Northern Ireland. McGinty has been performing for over a decade, and a member of the group Celtic Thunder for thirteen years starting when he was fourteen. On 21 August 2011, McGinty won the Oxygen reality show The Glee Project, earning him a seven-episode guest-starring role on the hit Fox television show Glee which was later extended to 18 episodes.
Conor MacNeill
Conor MacNeill is a Northern Irish actor of film, television, and stage.
Bronagh Waugh
Bronagh Waugh is a Northern Irish actress. She is known for portraying the role of Cheryl Brady in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, as well as appearing on T4 On The Beach as herself.
Danny Kinahan
Daniel de Burgh Kinahan is a British politician from the Ulster Unionist Party, a former Member of Parliament for South Antrim and former member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for South Antrim.
Ian Paisley Jr
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley Jr is a British politician. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Antrim since the 2010 general election. Previously he was a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for North Antrim from 1998 to 2010. Paisley is a member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and is the son of the DUP's founder Ian Paisley.
John Lynch
John Lynch is an Irish actor and novelist. He won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actor for the 1995 film Angel Baby. His other film appearances include Cal (1984), The Secret Garden (1993), In the Name of the Father (1993) and Sliding Doors (1998). He has also written two novels, Torn Water (2005) and Falling Out of Heaven (2010).
Tomm Moore
Thomas "Tomm" Moore is an Irish filmmaker, animator, illustrator and comics artist. He co-founded Cartoon Saloon with Nora Twomey and Paul Young, an animation studio and production company based in Kilkenny, Ireland. His first two feature films, The Secret of Kells (2009), co-directed with Nora Twomey, and Song of the Sea (2014), have received critical acclaim and were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.