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Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish actor and film director. He is the recipient of three IFTA Awards, two BIFA's, and a Primetime Emmy Award and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award, five times for a Golden Globe Award and once for an Academy Award. In 2020, he was listed at number 18 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. He is the father of actors Domhnall Gleeson and Brian Gleeson. He is best known for his performance as Alastor Moody in the Harry Potter films (2005–2010). He is also known for his supporting roles in films such as Braveheart (1995), Michael Collins (1996), 28 Days Later (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), Troy (2004), Suffragette (2015), Paddington 2 (2017), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). He is also known for his leading roles in films such as The General (1998), In Bruges (2008), The Guard (2011), Calvary (2014), Frankie (2019), and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022). He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the lattermost film. He won an Primetime Emmy Award in 2009 for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the television film Into the Storm. He also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance as Donald Trump in the Showtime series The Comey Rule (2020). From 2017 to 2019 he starred in the crime series Mr. Mercedes. He received an Emmy Award nomination for Stephen Frears' Sundance TV series State of the Union (2022).
Brendan Gleeson
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for Orson Welles in The rebellious princess
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The film tells the life of Ira Von Fürstenberg, from her birth in Rome in 1940, until her death in the same city in 2024. Daughter of a powerful aristocratic family, Ira marries Prince Alfonso de Hohenlohe at the age of 15, with who has two children, but soon rebels against social conventions and launches into a life of adventures, glamor and scandals. She divorces her first husband and marries the Brazilian millionaire Francisco Pignatari, from whom she also separates. He became a star of European cinema, working with directors such as Mario Bava, Franco Nero and Lucio Fulci. She designs jewelry, clothing and perfumes, and collaborates with the couturier Valentino. He is related to personalities such as Orson Welles, Salvador Dalí, Aristotle Onassis, Omar Sharif and Frank Sinatra. Your life is marked by love, art, partying, but also by tragedy, such as the death of her eldest son in a Bangkok prison or her own illness. The film is a tribute to a woman who broke molds and lived intensely, leaving an indelible mark on the history of the jet set.
