Colm Meaney to Receive Irish Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award
variety.comAlex Ritman Colm Meaney, the Irish actor perhaps best known for playing Miles O’Brien across all seven seasons of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” but with a wealth of other major film and TV credits to his name, is set to be honored with the Irish Academy Award for lifetime achievement.
Presented at the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) awards on Feb. 14, the honor will celebrate a career spanning five decades that has seen Meaney work with some of the world’s most renowned filmmakers and actors. “To say I was surprised when I got the news that IFTA wanted to give me this award, would be an understatement.
I was truly shocked,” said Meaney. “To be asked to join this long list of very illustrious previous recipients is a huge honour, and I’m thrilled and looking forward to a good night in Dublin.” Film credits on Meaney’s resume include all three films in Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy in the 1990s: “The Commitments,” “The Snapper” and “The Van,” landing a Golden Globe nomination for “The Snapper”.
Since then, other roles have included: “Intermission,” “The Dead,” “The Last of the Mohicans,” “Con Air,” “Layer Cake,” “Under Siege,” “Far and Away,” “Marlowe,” “Tolkien,” “Seberg,” “The Damned United,” “The Banker,” “Die Hard 2,” “Kings,” “The Journey” and “How Harry Became a Tree” (which won him his first IFTA award in 2002).
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