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Eamonn Owens is an Irish actor born in Killeshandra, Ireland. His breakthrough role was as the antisocial and rebel Francie Brady in Neil Jordan's acclaimed film The Butcher Boy (1997) for his which Owens won and was nominated for several awards.
Eamonn Owens is an Irish actor born in Killeshandra, Ireland. His breakthrough role was as the antisocial and rebel Francie Brady in Neil Jordan's acclaimed film The Butcher Boy (1997) for his which Owens won and was nominated for several awards.
The Butcher Boy: Directed by Neil Jordan. With Eamonn Owens, Sean McGinley, Peter Gowen, Alan Boyle. The antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother grows up in 1960s Ireland.
Birthday: Jan 18, 1983. Birthplace: Killeshandra, Ireland. With no previous acting experience, Irish-born Eamonn Owens impressed a casting assistant enough to make the finals for the leading role...
This piece is about director Neil Jordan's seven most overtly supernatural, fairy tale-like films— The Company of Wolves, High Spirits, Interview with the Vampire, The Butcher Boy, In Dreams, Ondine, and his latest, the mother-daughter vampire shocker Byzantium.
With no previous acting experience, Irish-born Eamonn Owens impressed a casting assistant enough to make the finals for the leading role in Neil Jordan's "The Butcher Boy" (1997), adapted from Patrick McCabe's.
Starring Jordan regular Stephen Rea and newcomer Eamonn Owens, it is a darkly humorous tale of a tragic childhood in an insular, rural Irish community of the 1960s. Francie Brady (Owens) is an emotionally disturbed 12-year-old boy from a dysfunctional family, whose inner anger and paranoia lead to increasingly bizarre and violent behaviour.
Apr 17, 1998 · The film takes place in the early 1960s, in a small town in the west of Ireland. It is narrated by Francie, who is played by the newcomer Eamonn Owens in one of the cockiest and most confident performances I've seen by a young actor. Francie's homelife is not happy.
