When this photograph landed in our intray  today it made us think of Barry Keoghan.  Again.  If we were totally honest we would admit to the fact that this Irishman is not far from our thoughts.  Often. The photo above is his latest film Andrea Arnold‘s highly-anticipated “Bird” which is just about to premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.  Keoghan plays a character named Bug (alongside Passages star  Franz Rogowski  as Bird)  although very few details have been shared as of yet, we do know that Keoghan exited Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator 2” to film “Bird” instead

The 31 year old Irishman  has been acting since he was 18 and hasnt been off our screens much at all since then. His breakthrough came in 2011 when he co-starred In Christopher Nolan’s triple Academy Award winning DUNKIRK  along side the likes of Kenneth Branagh,  Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance and Tom Hardy . That same year he also starred in Yorgos Lanthimos‘s The Killing of a Sacred Deer. for which he won   Best Supporting Actor  at 15th Irish Film & Television Awards,  Keoghan had well and truly arrived.  

Just 11 years later in 2022 he made two films The Joker and The Banshees of Inisherin, written and directed by Martin McDonagh  For the later he received   Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination, and won BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 

Then in 2023 his starring role in Emerald Fennell‘s psychological thriller Saltburn and received critical acclaim for his performance, and also much talk for his naked scene.  He picked up a nomination for a  Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

He has not only transformed as an actor but also has  become something of a pin up, heart throb and something like an old fashioned matinee idol. We cannot wait to see Bird after Cannes but in the meanwhile he’s a few of his roles to date