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Diarmuid de Faoite

Diarmuid de Faoite

Acting

Biography

Diarmuid is an actor, writer and dialogue coach. Film: Recent work includes the new release, The Watchers (2024), Foscadh (2022), Finky (2020), Black '47 (2018) and Pilgrimage (2017). Two new feature films are in post production: Bring Them Down and Froggie. TV: Diarmuid was nominated for an IFTA for his lead role in Corp+Anam Series 1+2 (TG4), narrated An Bhoirinn (TG4) which won the Oireachtas Best Television Series and wrote and performed 'Pádraic Ó Conaire' which won Best Feature Documentary at the Celtic Media Festival. Other series work includes FBI International (CBS), Der Irland Krimi (ARD), Ros na Rún and Rásaí na Gaillimhe (TG4), Scúp and Custer's Last Stand Up (BBC NI), Machair (STV) and Ecu! Ecu!, Eureka! and Thou Shalt Not Kill (RTÉ). He has been involved in the narration and scripting of multiple documentaries. His new feature documentary, 'An Snáithe Órga/The Golden Thread' with Screen Ireland, TG4 and Seanchas productions is in development Theatre: Favourite roles include Edward in Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Jack in The Weir, Travis in Paris Texas and Pádraic in Pádraic Ó Conaire. Diarmuid has worked with a host of companies, performing throughout Europe and in the UK, USA and Australia. Music: Diarmuid is currently producing a national tour, 'Dúchas agus Dóchas, A Clare Songline' with his own company. He narrates multiple large-scale events with the National Folk Orchestra. Diarmuid co-wrote and performed 'The Playboy of The Western World - The Musical' which won silver at the PPI Radio Awards and the re-adapted stage version has toured nationally. Reviews: Defender of the Faith "De Faoite's exquisitely poised performance as the purse-lipped Jesuitical trouble-shooter J.J makes a huge contribution to the tension and menace." Emer O Kelly, The Independent. The Fairgreen Slaughterhouse "De Faoite is superb" The Sunday Times. The Lieutenant of Inishmore "In a strong cast, Diarmuid de Faoite stands out" The Irish Times. Pádraic Ó Conaire "This was a truly marvelous experience... de Faoite brings us on a roller coaster of emotion... The story may be Ó Conaire's, but the genius in this particular work is undoubtedly de Faoite's." Rióna Ní Fhrighíl, Irish Theatre Magazine.

Known For

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War
7.2

Jack Ryan is reluctantly pulled back into espionage when an international covert mission unravels a deadly conspiracy. Racing against time, he joins CIA allies Mike November & James Greer and sharp MI6 officer Emma Marlowe to battle a rogue black-ops unit in a high-stakes, deeply personal fight.

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War

2026
FBI: International
7.6

Follows the elite agents of the FBI's International Fly Team headquartered in Budapest as they travel the world with the mission of protecting Americans wherever they may be.

FBI: International

2021
The Watchers
6.3

A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night.

The Watchers

2024
Smother
6.5

On the rugged coast of County Clare, Val Ahern's husband is found dead at the foot of a cliff the morning after a family party. The matriarch starts to dig into the family's secrets to find out who might be responsible.

Smother

2021
Pilgrimage
6.0

In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.

Pilgrimage

2017
Bring Them Down
6.7

When the ongoing rivalry between farmers Michael and Jack suddenly escalates, it triggers a chain of events that take increasingly violent and devastating turns, leaving both families permanently altered.

Bring Them Down

2025
Black '47
6.6

In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, returns home to reunite with his estranged family, only to discover the cruelest reality, a black land where death reigns.

Black '47

2018
Scúp
N/A

Set in a struggling Irish language newspaper in Belfast, the series is built around the character of Rob Cullan. a journalist who has left a high flying job in an English newspaper under a cloud. He is persuaded to return to the community he grew up in by the wily newspaper proprietor Diarmuid Black to help rescue his ailing publication.

Scúp

2013
Ros na Rún
7.5

Ros na Rún is a long-running Irish soap opera produced for the Irish language television channel, TG4. It was originally broadcast on RTÉ One in the early 1990s before the existence of TG4. It now broadcasts for 35 weeks of the year, airing 2 episodes each week from September to May. The programme is set in a fictional village called Ros Na Rún, located outside Galway, and near Spiddal, and centres around the domestic and professional lives of its residents. It is modelled on an average village in the West of Ireland but with its own distinct personality – diverse population that share secrets, romances, friendships etc. While the core community has remained the same, the look and feel of Ros Na Rún has changed and evolved over the years to incorporate the changing face of rural Ireland. It has established a place not only in the hearts and minds of the Irish speaking public, but also the wider Irish audience.

Ros na Rún

1996
Corp + Anam
8.0

Gritty Irish-language drama chronicling the difficult professional and intense personal life of Cathal Mac Iarnáin, a tenacious TV crime reporter who is obsessed with pursuing the story behind the story. But as single-minded as he is about uncovering the truth, he is often too busy chasing stories to notice that the world of crime hits closer to home every day.

Corp + Anam

2011
Ella's Life
10.0

Ella's world is turned upside down when her father decides they will also keep students and suddenly a gang of girls have taken over her house and her life.

Ella's Life

2023
Arracht
6.8

Colmán Sharkey - a fisherman, a father, a husband - takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier arrives just ahead of ‘the blight,’ a crop disease that caused the Great Plague, killing and displacing millions of Irishmen.

Arracht

2021
Kings
4.5

In the mid 1970s a group of young men leave the Connemara Gaeltacht, bound for London and filled with ambition for a better life. After thirty years, they meet again at the funeral of their youngest friend, Jackie. The film intersperses flashbacks of a lost youth in Ireland with the harsh realities of modern life. For some the thirty years has been hard, working in building sites across Britain. Slowly the truth about Jackie's death become clear and the friends discover they need each other more than ever.

Kings

2007
Foscadh
5.5

When his over-protective parents pass away, friendless recluse John Cunliffe discovers their land to be extremely valuable, and he is forced to navigate the choppy waters of trust, vengeance and romance for the first time.

Foscadh

2021
Run & Jump
5.9

After a stroke leaves her husband disabled and fundamentally changed, a spirited Irish wife struggles to keep her family members together. All the while they are under the microscope of an American researcher documenting their recovery process.

Run & Jump

2014
Did You Read About Erskine Fogarty?
8.0

Bankrupted by the effects of the 2008 recession and a divorce, Erskine Fogarty chooses to carry his last possession of status, his American fridge-freezer, from Dublin back to Limerick.

Did You Read About Erskine Fogarty?

2024
Der Irland-Krimi: Preis des Schweigens
N/A

Life seems to be kind to criminal psychologist Cathrin Blake: a tender love affair has developed from the acquaintance with the charming Matt. Professionally, however, Cathrin faces a tricky case: A year and a half ago, the renowned psychologist Helen Bell disappeared without a trace.

Der Irland-Krimi: Preis des Schweigens

2022
Finky
N/A

A young musician with a tragic past is crippled in a car accident and given a chance at redemption when he is recruited by a violent, avant-garde circus.

Finky

2019
Froggie
7.0

Brothers Fiachra and Tadgh peaked at the age of 7 when they appeared on the TV singing with their homemade puppet, “Froggie”. 25 years later, they are still singing the same ol’ song...until one day, Froggie is stolen. A riotous, hilarious story about brotherly love and the struggles of being an artist in today's world, "Froggie" is a fun-filled adventure for all the family.

Froggie

2024
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N/A

A sacked civil servant tells a ghost story at his farewell party.

Misteach Bhaile Átha Cliath

1994
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