Daragh O'Malley (b. 25 May 1954 in Dublin, Ireland) is a film, theatre and television actor.
O'Malley is probably best known as the actor who plays the ever faithful but fearsome Patrick Harper in the hugely popular and now legendary Sharpe TV series with Sean Bean which has been running on ITV since 1992.
Raised in Limerick, a city in south-west Ireland,the 6'3" O'Malley was educated by The Jesuits and Carmelite monks and went on to study drama ...
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Daragh O'Malley (b. 25 May 1954 in Dublin, Ireland) is a film, theatre and television actor.
O'Malley is probably best known as the actor who plays the ever faithful but fearsome Patrick Harper in the hugely popular and now legendary Sharpe TV series with Sean Bean which has been running on ITV since 1992.
Raised in Limerick, a city in south-west Ireland,the 6'3" O'Malley was educated by The Jesuits and Carmelite monks and went on to study drama at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art where one of his fellow students was Amy Irving and records show that she once played Antigone to O'Malley's Creon.
In the 90's O'Malley was cast as Debra Winger's husband in the ill fated Irish feature Divine Rapture which starred Marlon Brando, Winger, O'Malley, John Hurt and Johnny Depp but the project collapsed after four weeks filming when the Los Angeles production company Orion suddenly went bust. O'Malley, who lived in Los Angeles for many years, remained a very close friend of Brando's...
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