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Gerard McCarthy (born 31 March 1981) is an Irish actor from Belfast, Northern Ireland. ==Career== Gerard McCarthy was awarded Sir Kenneth Branagh's Renaissance Scholarship to train at Laine Theatre Arts, graduating in 2002. He currently plays Kevin McSwain in BBC 2's BAFTA nominated drama ''The Fall'', starring Gillian Anderson. He can be seen alongside Sir Derek Jacobi, Neve Campbell and Joely Richardson as Ashley Stokes in ''Titanic: Blood & Steel'', an epic 12-part series charting the extraordinary construction of RMS ''Titanic'' in the shipyards of Edwardian Belfast. The series was nominated for 5 IFTA Awards including Best Series. He played Brondsted in the first episode of Michael Hirst's History Channel series ''Vikings'', starring Gabriel Byrne. McCarthy also played Rory Thompson in Samson Films' ''Belonging to Laura'', a modern-day adaptation of Oscar Wilde's ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' directed by Karl Golden, which was nominated for Best Single Drama at the IFTA Awards. McCarthy is known for his award-winning performance as Kris Fisher on the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' from 2006 to 2010. On stage, McCarthy made his Shakespearean debut as Fenton in ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' at Shakespeare's Globe in London. The production received widespread critical acclaim and subsequently transferred to New York and Los Angeles with McCarthy reprising his role in both cities. 2012 also saw him return to the stage in a highly acclaimed production of Joe Penhall's Olivier Award winning play Blue/Orange. He recently filmed the BBC comedy ''Puppy Love'', written by and starring Jo Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine (co-creators of the BAFTA nominated ''Getting On''), and returned to the stage at the end of 2014 in the world premiere of ''Jonathan Harker and Dracula'' McCarthy's debut feature film, ''A Nightingale Falling'', premiered at the 2014 Galway Film Fleadh. In 2015 McCarthy returned to his homeland with his one-man show ''Cat - The Play'' before commencing a national tour of Jonathan Harvey's ''Beautiful Thing'', in which he played Tony. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gerard McCarthy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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