Michael Legge (actor) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Michael Legge is a Northern Irish actor.

He has appeared in a number of stage, film, television and radio roles. He may be best known for playing the teenaged Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt

Francis "Frank" McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, best known as the author of Angela’s Ashes, an award-winning, tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood....

in Alan Parker

Alan Parker

Sir Alan William Parker, CBE is an English film director, producer, writer and actor. He has been active in both the British cinema and American cinema and was a founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain.-Life and career:...

's 1999 film, Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes (film)
Angela's Ashes is a 1999 Irish-American drama film based on the memoir of the same title by Frank McCourt. It was directed by Alan Parker and starred Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, and Michael Legge .-Plot:Angela's Ashes tells the story of Frank McCourt and his childhood...

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Legge attended St Colman's College, Newry

St Colman's College, Newry

St Colman's College is a Roman Catholic school in Newry, Northern Ireland. Now named in honour of St. Colman, it was founded in 1823 as the Dromore Diocesan Seminary by a Father J.S. Keenan. The College stands on Violet Hill, the same 60 acre site it has occupied since 1829, adjacent to the...

Film

Year	Title	Role
1998	Soft Sand, Blue Sea	Store Guard
1999	Straydogs	Niko
1999	Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? is a film written by Ben Steiner, directed by Peter Hewitt and released in 1999. The British movie was filmed in Sheffield....	Vince Smith
1999	Angela's Ashes Angela's Ashes (film) Angela's Ashes is a 1999 Irish-American drama film based on the memoir of the same title by Frank McCourt. It was directed by Alan Parker and starred Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, and Michael Legge .-Plot:Angela's Ashes tells the story of Frank McCourt and his childhood...	Older Frank McCourt
2000	Girls from H.A.R.M.
2003	Cowboys and Angels	Shane Butler
2009	Sam and Jenny Go to a Play (short)>Sam and Jenny Go to a Play	Sam

2011
Whole Lotta Sole

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Theatre
2000	Cressida Cressida Cressida is a character who appears in many Medieval and Renaissance retellings of the story of the Trojan War. She is a Trojan woman, the daughter of Calchas a priestly defector to the Greeks...	Stephen Hammerton	Albery Theatre, London
2001	Presence	Pete	Jerwood Theatre, London
2002	Plasticine Plasticine Plasticine, a brand of modelling clay, is a putty-like modelling material made from calcium salts, petroleum jelly and aliphatic acids. The name is a registered trademark of Flair Leisure Products plc...	Maksim	Royal Court Theatre, London
2004/5	His Dark Materials His Dark Materials (play) His Dark Materials is a play written by British playwright Nicholas Wright adapted from the Phillip Pullman fantasy novel trilogy of the same title. The production premiered in the Royal National Theatre's Olivier Theatre, London, in 2003...	Will Parry	National Theatre, London
2006	Southwark Fair	Aurek	National Theatre, London
2008	Treasure Island Treasure Island Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881–82 under the title Treasure Island; or, the...	Jim Hawkins	Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
2009	Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme is a 1985 play by Frank McGuinness.-Plot synopsis:The play centres on the experiences of eight Unionist Irishmen who volunteer to serve in the 36th Division at the beginning of the First World War... ; a Hampstead Theatre Production by Frank McGuinness Frank McGuinness Professor Frank McGuinness is an award-winning Irish playwright and poet. As well as his own works, which include Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, he is recognised for a "strong record of adapting literary classics, having translated the plays of Racine, Sophocles, Ibsen and... , 18 June - 18 July 2009	Martin Crawford	Hampstead Theatre, London

Television

Year	Title	Role	Episode
1996	The Precious Blood	John Willis
1997/8	Dream Team Dream Team (TV series) Dream Team is a British television series produced by Hewland International which aired on Sky1 and Sky3 from 1997 to 2007; it chronicled the on-field and off-field affairs of the fictional Harchester United Football Club....	Conor McCarthy	1.01 - 1.64
2000	The Rosie O'Donnell Show The Rosie O'Donnell Show The Rosie O'Donnell Show is an Emmy Award-winning American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. It aired for six seasons from 1996 to 2002...	Michael Legge	21 January 2000
2002	On Home Ground	John King	2.1
2004	The Big Bow Wow	Frank	All
2004	Dunkirk	LCpl Wilf Saunders
2004	Omagh Omagh Omagh is the county town of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated where the rivers Drumragh and Camowen meet to form the Strule. The town, which is the largest in the county, had a population of 19,910 at the 2001 Census. Omagh also contains the headquarters of Omagh District Council and...	Michael Barrett
2007-9	Shameless Shameless Shameless is a British television drama series set in Manchester on the fictional Chatsworth council estate. Produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, the first seven-episode series aired weekly on Tuesday nights at 10pm from 13 January 2004...	Tom O'Leary	Season 4-5-6
2011	Outcasts Outcasts (TV series) Outcasts is an eight-part 2011 British television science-fiction drama serial, starring Liam Cunningham, Hermione Norris, Amy Manson, Daniel Mays, Jamie Bamber, Eric Mabius and Ashley Walters. It originally aired on BBC One, and BBC HD.-Plot:...	Tipper Malone	1-

Awards/nominations

Year	Group	Award	Result	Film
2000	Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in an International Film – Young Performer	Nominated	Angela’s Ashes
2001	London Critics Circle Film Awards	AFLS Award for British Newcomer of the Year	Nominated	Angela's Ashes Angela's Ashes Angela's Ashes is a 1996 memoir by the Irish-American author Frank McCourt. The memoir consists of various anecdotes and stories of Frank McCourt's impoverished childhood and early adulthood in Brooklyn, New York and Limerick, Ireland, as well as McCourt's struggles with poverty, his father's...
2004	Dallas OUT TAKES	Best Actor	Won	Cowboys and Angels Cowboys And Angels "Cowboys and Angels" is a song written and performed by George Michael and released on Epic Records in 1991. Among other things, the song is notable for being written in Waltz time....

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