Barry Keoghan Biography

Barry Keoghan is an Irish actor who has received several accolades including a British Academy Film Award and nominations for an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. The Irish Times ranked him 27th in its 2020 list of Ireland’s greatest film actors.

Barry Keoghan Education

Keoghan participated in school plays at the O’Connell School on Dublin’s North Richmond Street. However, he got banished for messing around. He says that he learned about films when he used to sneak into films alongside his friends into Cineworld on Parnell Street, where he was also banished. Keoghan starred in Between the Canals before joining The Factory (now Bow Street Academy) where he studied acting. At the time, Keoghan says that he recalls not having €2.20 bus fare for school.

Barry Keoghan Career

Keoghan started his acting career in 2011 when he responded to a casting notice in a Sheriff Street shop window for Between the Canals. He secured the minor role of Aido in the film. When he was 18, he starred in Fair City. In 2013, he starred as Wayne in Love/Hate, for which he received recognition in Ireland. The following year, he appeared in ’71 before starring in Mammal and Trespass Against Us in 2016.

In 2017, he received recognition for starring in Dunkirk and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Further, he received more praise for starring in Calm with Horses and The Green Knight. Next, he appeared in HBO’s  Chernobyl. In 2021, he broadened his career to big-budget films when he joined the MCU and starred as Druig in Eternals. The following year, he starred in The Banshees of Inisherin, which earned him BAFTA Best Actor in a Supporting Role Award and nominations for the Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor Award and Academy Best Supporting Actor Award.

In 2023, Keoghan starred in Saltburn, which earned him nominations for a Golden Globe Best Actor Award and a BAFTA Best Actor Award. That same year, he starred in Netflix’s Top Boy. In 2023, he appeared in Apple TV+’s Masters of the Air. Aside from his film work, Keoghan works as an ambassador for Dior and Barretstown, a not-for-profit camp for children with cancer and other severe sicknesses. He assisted in the opening of its Aladina Studio.

Barry Keoghan Age

Keoghan was born on October 17, 1992, in Dublin, Ireland. He is 31 years old as of 2023. Keoghan celebrates his birthday every October 17th.

Barry Keoghan Height

Keoghan stands at an approximate height of 5 feet and 8 inches

Barry Keoghan Family

Spent seven years in foster care, during which he lived in thirteen different homes. Keoghan grew up in Summerhill, Dublin, Ireland. At the age of 12, his mother passed away after struggling with drug addiction. For seven years, he and his brother, Eric, spent time in 13 foster homes before his grandmother, aunt, and older sister, Gemma took them.

Barry Keoghan Wife/Alyson Kierans

Keoghan was in a relationship with Alyson Kierans. They began dating in September 2021. Kierans works as a dental nurse and orthodontic therapist. On March 27, 2022, they shared the news that they were expecting a child. They have a son named Brando who was born on August 5, 2022. Brando is 1 year old as of 2023. They relocated to  Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Scotland in November 2022. In 2023, Keoghan revealed that he and Kierans had split in mid-2023.

Before Alyson, Keoghan was in a relationship with Shona Guerin from 2017 to 2020. They had met on a Good Friday at the pub she worked at. They made an appearance on Livin’ with Lucy in 2019 where they lived in their Los Angeles home with Lucy Kennedy, a TV and radio presenter from Ireland. Keoghan was diagnosed with ADHD. He serves as an amateur boxer.

Barry Keoghan Net Worth

Keoghan has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 Million – $5 Million which he has earned through being an actor.

Barry Keoghan The Killing of a Sacred Deer

In 2017, Keoghan starred in the role of 16-year-old Martin Lang in the psychological thriller film, The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Martin is a seemingly kind, charming young man who gets along with everyone. He and a cardiothoracic surgeon, Steven Murphy, share a friendly relationship.

Martin alludes that he wants them to have a father-son relationship which Steven opposes and starts pushing him away since he has a wife and two kids. Things take a different turn when Steven’s son, Bob, starts exhibiting symptoms that can’t be medically traced and the true nature of Martin and Steven’s relationship comes to light. For his performance, Keoghan received an Irish Film and Television Best Supporting Actor Award.

Barry Keoghan Dunkirk

In 2017, Keoghan starred in the role of George Mills in the epic historical war thriller film, Dunkirk. George worked as a hand aboard the Moonstone during the outbreak of World War II. With dreams of becoming a Royal Air Force pilot, he joins Mark and Peter Dawson in voyaging the Moonstone to Dunkirk, France to help in the clearance of the confined British Army troops on the beach. Along the way, they rescue shell-shocked soldier, Adam Parks, from his sinking ship. George sustains a head injury when he tries to stop Parks from wringing control of the steering wheel from Captain Dawson.

Barry Keoghan Eternals

In 2021, Keoghan starred in the role of Druig in Marvel’s Eternals. Druig is a cold Eternal who can control minds. He is embittered with the other Eternals because they refuse to act on human problems. As a result, he breaks off from the other Eternals and goes to the rainforest where he leads a cult. Of all the Eternals, he has a trusting connection with Makkari. When the Deviants attack him and his followers in the rainforest, he reunites with Eternals to save the earth.

Barry Keoghan The Banshees of Inisherin

In 2022, Keoghan starred in the role of Dominic Kearney in The Banshees of Inisherin. Dominic is the troubled son of the local Garda, Peadar Kearney. Peadar severely beats him for drinking his alcohol. For his performance in the film, he received nominations for an Academy Best Supporting Actor Award, BAFTA Best Supporting Actor Award, Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Award, Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Award, and Critics’ Choice Best Supporting Actor Award.

Barry Keoghan Joker/The Batman

In 2022, Keoghan made an appearance credited as “Unseen Arkham Prisoner” in Matt Reeves’s The Batman. Matt later confirmed that the prisoner was the Joker. Three weeks after the film’s release, Warner Bros. issued an erased scene featuring Keoghan as the Joker on March 24, 2022.

Barry Keoghan Saltburn/Jacob Elordi

In 2023, Keoghan starred in the role of Oliver Quick in the psychological drama, Saltburn. alongside Jacob Elordi who starred as Felix Catton. Oliver is a scholarship student from Prescot while Felix is a charismatic and wealthy British student at Oxford University. He befriends Felix and confides in him about his parents’ drug abuse and mental health problems.

Oliver is distressed after he learns of his father’s abrupt death. Sympathetic towards Oliver and his circumstances, Felix invites him to stay with him at their family’s estate during the summer. Oliver’s obsession with Felix grows during his stay at the estate. Things start going south when Felix finds out that Oliver lied about his parents and his father’s death. For his performance in the film, Keoghan received nominations for the BAFTA Best Actor Award and the Golden Globe Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Award.

Barry Keoghan Ethnicity/Asian

Keoghan is of Irish descent. Despite the rumors that suggest he may have Asian roots due to his eyes. However, there’s no confirmed information regarding whether or not he has Asian roots but we’ll update this information once available to the public.

Barry Keoghan Movies and TV Shows

Keoghan has starred in a number of films and TV shows such as

• Stand Up
• Between the Canals
• King of the Travellers
• Stalker
• Life’s a Breeze
• Norfolk
• The Break
• Chernobyl
• Trespass Against Us
• Light Thereafter
• American Animals
• Black ’47
• Calm With Horses
• Masters of the Air