Biografi
Terry Byrne's career has combined acting, directing and writing. He has played a substantial number of roles in theatre, film and television. Film work has included major roles in Penance, a new Irish film and Chasing Leprechauns. Other work includes Agnes Brown, When Brendan Met Trudy, The Abduction Club, Veronica Guerin, St Patrick, and Growing Pains. Television has included The Tudors, Game of Thrones, Bull Island, Bachelors Walk, Ballykissangel, Fallout, Fair City. Theatre work has included A Streetcar Named Desire, Cyrano de Bergerac (Gate Theatre, Dublin), Sour Grapes, Juno and the Paycock (Abbey Theatre, Dublin). Other theatre work includes An Ideal Husband (Gallowglass), Glory Be To The Father (Red Kettle) Continental Call Girls, Out of Order Sweetie, Over The River and Through The Woods (Lane Productions). He played Morrie in Tuesdays with Morrie, a major hit which ran for over two years in an extensive national tour. Terry is also a freelance theatre director whose work has included a number of major hits - Elysium Nevada by Barry McKinley, which was nominated as best new play in the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2010; and a number of long-running hits, including - I Keano the musical satire, which broke box-office records everywhere; The Chastitute by John B Keane toured for three consecutive years; Twelve Angry Men which opened in Andrews Lane, was critically acclaimed and ran for two years at larger venues. 84 Charing Cross Road which was the final show in Andrews Lane. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest , Over The River and Though The Woods, A Night in November, Out of Order Sweetie, Over and Out, Continental Call Girls, Women on the Verge of HRT - all for Lane Productions, and Deathtrap, starring Keir Dullea, for Red Kettle. For Centreline Productions in London he directed Women on the Verge Get A Life by Marie Jones. He wrote "Matchmake Me Do", an adaptation of John B Keane's book Letters of a Matchmaker, and "Holy Smoke", an adaptation of Tartuffe by Moliere.
