Brian Roche
Acting
Biography
Brian James Roche (born 2 October 1987) is an Irish actor, writer and musician from Limerick, Ireland. His first major television role was in the BBC/RTE television series Custer's Last Stand-up which won the BAFTA for best British Children's Series in 2001. He went on to play the lead part of Matty in the 2003 Imison Award Winning BBC Radio 4 production of The Skategrinder by Celia Bryce. As well as many theatre performances and title roles, he has a Legal Honours degree from Trinity College Dublin and is an avid sports player and musician. It can be confirmed that he will appear in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in a children's show entitled The Rainbows End. After a five star review in the 2011 Fringe festival, Brian was offered a lead role of Manuel in Faulty Towers, the Dining Experience with Australian Company Interactive Theater and will begin performing internationally in March 2012.
Known For
Starting on the day a long, dormant feud between two local families is brutally reignited, this continuing drama is based around a busy Dublin Garda station. On one side, the Hennessys, a local dynasty, whose name is above half the businesses in town. On the other side, the Kielys, who have turned petty crime into a cottage industry. Charting the life and dramas of a community about to be enveloped by a feud, through the eyes of those who police it, each episode will be a mix of 'crime of the week' stories and on-going serial arcs, following principle characters in both their professional and personal lives. A powerful and moving drama, Red Rock is a contemporary western, set in the shadow of Ireland's 'gold rush'.
Red Rock
Follows three high schoolers mistakenly transported to a brutal medieval world. Falling in with unlikely comrades caught in a civil war, the teens fight for survival as they search for a way back home.
The Wayfinders
Detectives and forensic experts recount the most extraordinary cold cases that were solved using the revolutionary technique of familial DNA testing.
Bloodline Detectives
Children's drama series about Jamie Custer's attempts to be a stand-up comic.