Sean Boru
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Sean Boru was an Irish
actor
and author
.
Boru was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer (Hodgkins Lymphoma) in 1998, 2000 and 2002. He received radiotherapy the first 2 times, then chemotherapy
. He filmed the second and third treatments with the intention to help other patients and their relatives to understand the procedures.
During his 3rd treatment Boru wrote his autobiography
as a private project for his children and grandchildren. His book No Sense of Tumour (ISBN 978-141-202405-1) was published in June 2004 by Trafford Publishing
. This led to him writing the biography
of Michael Carroll (lottery winner)
, who won £9.7m in 2002, titled Careful what you wish For (ISBN 1-844-54313-7). The book was launched by John Blake Publishing in October 2006 unusually for an autobiography of this type, it features many references to its ghost writer.
In 2006 he was signed by literary agent, Diane Banks, and went on to ghost write the latest edition of the Alex Higgins
story, published in May 2007 by Headline. Sean Boru has also written a history book about London
. The book is called 'A Unique Historie of London: Featuring the American Connections' (ISBN 1-424-11869-7), and was published by Publish America on January 9, 2006.
In 2005 Boru wrote a stage show called And over here on the left which is a one man show in which he plays the character of a tour guide. Turning the theatre into the bus, he uses a mix of film, still pictures, and 3D images, projected onto the stage and a screen, for the audience to focus on.
Sean Boru went to Hollywood in 2006 to film a contribution, as a biographer, to a documentary made by the E!Entertainment channel, about Michael Carroll, as part of the E! True Hollywood Story
series on lottery winners. Boru has since got Carroll parts in films playing thugs, the press say he is `Type-Cast` for this kind of role. In the film Jack Said Carroll gets to beat up Danny Dyer, but Dyer gets his own back when he pummels Carroll unconscious during a robbery. The film also starring Boru goes on general release in October/November 2009. Pete Doherty asked Sean to write his autobiography in early 2009, after months of negotiations Sean declined the offer on the grounds that Kate Moss was concerned about her private life being told. After many emails from Kate's lawyers, and talks with mutual friends of Kate, Sean made the decision to not proceed.
In 2009 Sean Boru launched a book entitled `A historie of London and Londoners` ISBN No. 978-0-7524-4861-9 which is published by the History Press http://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=7613&ProductID=7266 he has also written a book on Snooker Miscellany which is being launched in March 2010. In 2008 after 3 years of applications Boru was invited to audition for the Dragons Den, he wanted to raise £250,000 to put on a unique theatre show based on his former bus tour of London, when he was a tour guide. After 2 auditions he was shortlisted for the next series in 2010. also in 2008 he met actor/producer Simon Phillips, and won the part of Detective Edwards in the second of the `Jack` films series, Jack Said. Boru stars in a leading role alongside actors Danny Dyer, David O`Hara, Terry Stone and Simon Phillips. The role is being carried over into the next `Jack` film, Jack Falls which is due to shoot in 2010 again with Boru playing Edwards. He has appeared on Irish and English TV shows talking about his relationship with former alleged Irish bank-robber Gerard Hutch. Boru has regular meets with Hutch when he is in Dublin, and it is believed that a book on the life of Hutch is in the planning. In 2009 he was asked by film director Liam Galvin to play a part in the film Killer Bitch
. Boru plays a porn film maker who gets murdered by former football bad boy Jason Marriner. Dave Courtney, Howard Marx, Roy Shaw and many more ex-gangsters are also featured in the film. The film raised issues when Cage Fighter Alex Reid shot a violent sex scene in a woods, with former Byker Grove
actress Yvette Rowland. Reid was dating Katie Price (Jordan) and the press made an issue of the scene, it was alleged to be a rape scene and women's groups raised issues about such scenes in films.
Sean Boru is a regular visitor to his native Dublin and he is currently working on a factual book about the city. He is a full member of the prestigious Lillies Bordello, which is a known haunt of celebrities. He is a regular visitor to the Cannes Film Festival in France. Sean Boru lives in Halstead Essex and is separated from his second wife Lesley; he has 5 children. He writes a regular 2 page column in all of the 45 magazines issued monthly by the Fish Publishing Group, the magazines are at the high end of Life Style magazines covering 5 counties, Herts, Bucks, London, Essex and Kent. The readership is an estimated 2m. a full account of the magazines are at www.life-mags.com
His latest book is `The Little Book of Snooker`, which is a book about Snooker history, evolution, player biographies and fun stats, his friend Jimmy White MBE wrote the foreword. All the royalties are being used to provide free copies of his 2005 film `Sleeping With the Light On`, which is an information film for cancer patients that has been endorsed by celebs and doctors worldwide. The book was written with the help of Jimmy White M.B.E. who also launched the book with Sean in April 2010 at Waterstones in Epsom. He is currently working with another Irish writer on a novel about the legendary Fianna Warriors, and has subsequently been cast as an Irish gangster in an upcoming New York heist film, the film will also have Irish actor and former boxer Joe Egan in it who is a friend of Boru.
Sean Boru died on 14 February 2011.
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
and author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
.
Boru was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer (Hodgkins Lymphoma) in 1998, 2000 and 2002. He received radiotherapy the first 2 times, then chemotherapy
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with an antineoplastic drug or with a combination of such drugs into a standardized treatment regimen....
. He filmed the second and third treatments with the intention to help other patients and their relatives to understand the procedures.
During his 3rd treatment Boru wrote his autobiography
Autobiography
An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.-Origin of the term:...
as a private project for his children and grandchildren. His book No Sense of Tumour (ISBN 978-141-202405-1) was published in June 2004 by Trafford Publishing
Trafford Publishing
Trafford Publishing is a publisher using print on demand technology, formerly based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and now based in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.-History:...
. This led to him writing the biography
Biography
A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts , biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events...
of Michael Carroll (lottery winner)
Michael Carroll (lottery winner)
Michael Carroll , born in Swaffham, Norfolk, UK, is a former binman who won £9.7 million on the National Lottery in November 2002, aged 19. His biography written by Sean Boru, entitled Careful What You Wish For , was published by John Blake Publishing in October 2006...
, who won £9.7m in 2002, titled Careful what you wish For (ISBN 1-844-54313-7). The book was launched by John Blake Publishing in October 2006 unusually for an autobiography of this type, it features many references to its ghost writer.
In 2006 he was signed by literary agent, Diane Banks, and went on to ghost write the latest edition of the Alex Higgins
Alex Higgins
Alexander Gordon "Alex" Higgins , also known by his nickname of Hurricane Higgins, was a Northern Irish professional snooker player who was twice World Champion and twice runner-up. Higgins earned the nickname The Hurricane because of his speed of play...
story, published in May 2007 by Headline. Sean Boru has also written a history book about London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. The book is called 'A Unique Historie of London: Featuring the American Connections' (ISBN 1-424-11869-7), and was published by Publish America on January 9, 2006.
In 2005 Boru wrote a stage show called And over here on the left which is a one man show in which he plays the character of a tour guide. Turning the theatre into the bus, he uses a mix of film, still pictures, and 3D images, projected onto the stage and a screen, for the audience to focus on.
Sean Boru went to Hollywood in 2006 to film a contribution, as a biographer, to a documentary made by the E!Entertainment channel, about Michael Carroll, as part of the E! True Hollywood Story
E! True Hollywood Story
E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and well-known public figures...
series on lottery winners. Boru has since got Carroll parts in films playing thugs, the press say he is `Type-Cast` for this kind of role. In the film Jack Said Carroll gets to beat up Danny Dyer, but Dyer gets his own back when he pummels Carroll unconscious during a robbery. The film also starring Boru goes on general release in October/November 2009. Pete Doherty asked Sean to write his autobiography in early 2009, after months of negotiations Sean declined the offer on the grounds that Kate Moss was concerned about her private life being told. After many emails from Kate's lawyers, and talks with mutual friends of Kate, Sean made the decision to not proceed.
In 2009 Sean Boru launched a book entitled `A historie of London and Londoners` ISBN No. 978-0-7524-4861-9 which is published by the History Press http://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=7613&ProductID=7266 he has also written a book on Snooker Miscellany which is being launched in March 2010. In 2008 after 3 years of applications Boru was invited to audition for the Dragons Den, he wanted to raise £250,000 to put on a unique theatre show based on his former bus tour of London, when he was a tour guide. After 2 auditions he was shortlisted for the next series in 2010. also in 2008 he met actor/producer Simon Phillips, and won the part of Detective Edwards in the second of the `Jack` films series, Jack Said. Boru stars in a leading role alongside actors Danny Dyer, David O`Hara, Terry Stone and Simon Phillips. The role is being carried over into the next `Jack` film, Jack Falls which is due to shoot in 2010 again with Boru playing Edwards. He has appeared on Irish and English TV shows talking about his relationship with former alleged Irish bank-robber Gerard Hutch. Boru has regular meets with Hutch when he is in Dublin, and it is believed that a book on the life of Hutch is in the planning. In 2009 he was asked by film director Liam Galvin to play a part in the film Killer Bitch
Killer Bitch
Killer Bitch is a 2010 British action-gangster film written and directed by Liam Galvin.The film became notorious in the UK in August 2009, shortly after shooting started, when tabloid newspapers the News of the World and The People carried stories implying that the movie's star, Katie Price's...
. Boru plays a porn film maker who gets murdered by former football bad boy Jason Marriner. Dave Courtney, Howard Marx, Roy Shaw and many more ex-gangsters are also featured in the film. The film raised issues when Cage Fighter Alex Reid shot a violent sex scene in a woods, with former Byker Grove
Byker Grove
Byker Grove was a British television series which aired between 1989 and 2006 and was created by Adele Rose. The show was broadcast at 5.10pm after Newsround on CBBC on BBC One...
actress Yvette Rowland. Reid was dating Katie Price (Jordan) and the press made an issue of the scene, it was alleged to be a rape scene and women's groups raised issues about such scenes in films.
Sean Boru is a regular visitor to his native Dublin and he is currently working on a factual book about the city. He is a full member of the prestigious Lillies Bordello, which is a known haunt of celebrities. He is a regular visitor to the Cannes Film Festival in France. Sean Boru lives in Halstead Essex and is separated from his second wife Lesley; he has 5 children. He writes a regular 2 page column in all of the 45 magazines issued monthly by the Fish Publishing Group, the magazines are at the high end of Life Style magazines covering 5 counties, Herts, Bucks, London, Essex and Kent. The readership is an estimated 2m. a full account of the magazines are at www.life-mags.com
His latest book is `The Little Book of Snooker`, which is a book about Snooker history, evolution, player biographies and fun stats, his friend Jimmy White MBE wrote the foreword. All the royalties are being used to provide free copies of his 2005 film `Sleeping With the Light On`, which is an information film for cancer patients that has been endorsed by celebs and doctors worldwide. The book was written with the help of Jimmy White M.B.E. who also launched the book with Sean in April 2010 at Waterstones in Epsom. He is currently working with another Irish writer on a novel about the legendary Fianna Warriors, and has subsequently been cast as an Irish gangster in an upcoming New York heist film, the film will also have Irish actor and former boxer Joe Egan in it who is a friend of Boru.
Sean Boru died on 14 February 2011.
Filmography
- Daddy Fox as Charming Barrister (2000)
- Cradle of FearCradle of FearCradle of Fear is a 2001 horror film directed by Alex Chandon. Taking inspiration from the portmanteau films produced by Amicus in the 1970s it features three separate half-hour segments, linked by a fourth story. The main narrative involves imprisoned serial-killer Kemper wreaking vengeance on...
as The Coroner (2001) - Another LifeAnother Life (film)Another Life is a 2001 UK Independent murder mystery film written and directed by Philip Goodhew. It stars Ioan Gruffudd, Natasha Little, Nick Moran, Imelda Staunton, Rachael Stirling and Tom Wilkinson....
as Courtroom photographer (2001) - The Hound of the BaskervillesThe Hound of the Baskervilles (2002 film)The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 2002 television adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel of the same name.-Production:Produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for the BBC, it was shown on BBC One on Boxing Day, 2002. It was directed by David Attwood, and adapted by Allan Cubitt. The film stars...
as Lord Edward (2002) - Conspiracy of SilenceConspiracy of Silence (film)Conspiracy of Silence is a drama film set in Ireland and inspired by real events. The film challenges celibacy and its implication for the Catholic Church in the 21st century....
as Father Murphy (2003) - Dreamteam as Frank (2003)
- Lost Dogs as Izzy (2005)
- Jack Said as Detective Edwards (2009)
- Killer Bitch as Sean (2009)
External links
- Barnes & Noble: Biography
- IMDB.com
- http://www.seanboru.com/