Young Blades is an historical fantasy television series that aired on PAX (now Ion Television) from January to June 2005, lasting only thirteen episodes before cancellation. Set in 17th century France, it followed the adventures of four Musketeers:

• d'Artagnan, son of the legendary d'Artagnan in Alexandre Dumas, père's novel The Three Musketeers.
• Jacqueline, alias Jacques, a woman disguised as a man while on the run for murder.
• Siroc, an inventor.
• Ramon, a poet.

Other main characters include the Musketeers' leader, Captain Duval; Queen Anne; Cardinal Mazarin; and a fifteen-year-old Louis XIV. The latter three characters are based on historical figures.

Cast[link]

• Tobias Mehler as d'Artagnan
• Karen Cliche as Jacqueline Roget/Jacques Leponte
• Mark Hildreth as Siroc
• Zak Santiago as Ramon Montalvo Francisco de la Cruz
• Bruce Boxleitner as Captain Martin Duvall
• Robert Sheehan as King Louis XIV
• Michael Ironside as Cardinal Mazarin
• Sheena Easton as Queen Anne

Episodes[link]

The show consisted of thirteen episodes, shown in the following order.

External links[link]

• Young Blades at the Internet Movie Database
• Young Blades at TV.com

Robert Sheehan
Robert Sheehan at the Minghella Film Festival, March 2011
Born	Robert Michael Sheehan (1988-01-07) 7 January 1988 (age 24) Portlaoise, Ireland
Alma mater	Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2003–present

Robert Michael Sheehan (Irish: Roibeárd Míċeál Ó Siodhacháin, born January 7, 1988) is an Irish actor. He is best known for television roles as Nathan Young in Misfits and Darren in Love/Hate, as well as the 2009 film Cherrybomb alongside Rupert Grint. He has also co-starred in the film Killing Bono, alongside Ben Barnes, as Ivan McCormick. He recently starred in John Crowley's production of J. M. Synge's comic play The Playboy of the Western World at the Old Vic Theatre, London, which finished in November, 2011.

He has three IFTA nominations and one BAFTA nomination. He also shared a BAFTA award with the cast of Misfits.

Early life[link]

Originally from County Laois, Robert grew up the youngest of three children with his older brother Brendan, and the family dog Rambo. His father Joe, was a garda. He played the banjo, the bodhrán, and the spoons at school, joking that he was like "Footloose with spoons", and participated in Fleadh Ceoils while at school. He first became interested in acting in primary school, in St. Paul's in Portlaoise, when he played Oliver in "Oliver with a Twist". Robert first considered acting when his mother Maria took him to an audition for Song for a Raggy Boy when he was fourteen. He was chosen for the film, which was shot for three months in West Cork. He stated that he still keeps in touch with some of the boys from the film, and described filming as an adventure. When he was sixteen, he played the crippled boy in Cripple of Innishmaan with Open Door productions, and said afterwards that there is nothing like good theatre.^[1]

He studied for a year at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology at the age of 17, but left his course of Film and TV studies after a year as he failed and did not return for the repeats, deciding that life behind the camera was not for him. Despite no professional training, apart from local drama groups, and first-hand experience, he was then offered a number of minor roles He has been quoted as saying, "I'm not sure if I want to be an actor. I want to go to college but not to study acting. But I'd like to do it to see where it takes me, so I'll keep at it. I never really made any plans of any sort. As long as I can keep getting a few jobs, I will be grateful. It is great fun and wonderfully rewarding for a young fella. I will continue as long as I keep getting work."

He said his parents were wonderfully supportive, and that his mother was virtually his manager in the early days of career, as well as his chauffeur, driving him to and from auditions and film sets.

Career[link]

Since then he has appeared in a number of feature films including A Dublin Story, Ghostwood, An Créatúr, Summer of the Flying Saucer and Season of the Witch. On television, he appeared in 15 episodes of Foreign Exchange (Magma Film/9 Newtwork Australia) as Cormac MacNamara and in all 13 episodes of Young Blades (Insight/PAX TV) as Louis XIV of France. More recently, Robert has appeared in The Clinic (Parallel Films/RTÉ), Bel's Boys (ITV) and in Season 2 of The Tudors (Showtime/BBC).

In March and April 2008, he appeared in the leading role of Addison Teller in the short-lived series Rock Rivals produced by Shed Productions for ITV.

In July 2008, he appeared in the role of Liam in Bitter Sweet, a two-part RTÉ comedy drama directed by Declan Eames.

In March 2009, he appeared in the role of BJ in the dark Channel 4 trilogy, Red Riding. The TV adaptation of David Peace's cult noir novels was set in Yorkshire during the 1970s and 1980s; he appeared in all three episodes alongside Sean Bean, David Morrissey, Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullan, Maxine Peake and Paddy Considine.

He starred as one of the lead characters in the UK drama film Cherrybomb (released in 2009), set in Belfast along with Rupert Grint. The film depicts the events of a weekend during which two best friends, Malachy (Grint) and Luke (Sheehan) go to extreme and dangerous lengths in the battle for a girl's affections.

From 2009 to 2010, he starred as a young offender named Nathan Young in the first two series of the E4 drama Misfits which follows the tales of five young adults on community service for petty crimes who find that they have superpowers after a powerful lightning storm strikes them.^[2]

Sheehan at the premiere of Killing Bono in March 2011

In 2010, he was nominated for an IFTA award in the Rising Star category.^[3] He was chosen to redo the voice of Ray in A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures, originally voiced by Anthony Anderson.

In October 2010, he was offered the part of Darren, a member of gangland Dublin in the four-part drama Love/Hate on RTÉ One (Irish national television). Sheehan received a call from his agent, Rose Parkinson, who told him he'd been offered the part in a TV drama directed by David Caffrey. The Portlaoise actor said he would do it, and didn't care what it was about, delighted to be involved in a drama which is directed by David Caffrey, someone he greatly admired. He stated he was "chuffed he had heard of [him] and had seen [him] in the Red Riding Trilogy."

Sheehan is set for the lead role in the British-Italian natural thriller film Bleak Sea.^[4]

Sheehan played Kay in the 2011 US fantasy thriller, Season of the Witch.^[5]

In April 2011 it was announced that Robert Sheehan would not be returning to Misfits for season three.^[2]

In May 2011 he was nominated for a BAFTA in the "Male Supporting Actor" category for his role in Misfits as Nathan Young. In June 2011 it was announced Robert would star in John Crowley's production of J. M. Synge's comic The Playboy of the Western World. The performance ran from 17 September to 26 November 2011 at the Old Vic Theatre. It also starred Ruth Negga and Niamh Cusack.

In October 2011, Sheehan starred in Arjun Rose's Demons Never Die.

Sheehan is to appear in the second season of the BBC crime drama series Accused.^[6]

In 2011, he was involved in a trailer for Bleak Sea, a movie trailer made specifically for a trailer competition, which is not set to be expanded into a feature length film. Robert is expected to star in the film, but his involvement is not confirmed.

He is rumored to star in upcoming feature In Between The Waves, alongside Tom Felton, and is set to appear in Wayfaring Strangers, alongside Cillian Murphy.

He also has a part in Romeo and Brittney written and directed by comedian David Baddiel. The film is a comical parody of Romeo and Juliet. Sheehan is set to play Romeo, alongside Karen Gillan, and the film is set to be completed in the summer.^[1]

He stressed the importance of taking on a number of versatile roles in the future, as well as ensuring quality output, and said his ambition is to work with as many talented actors as he can, and be involved in quality casts.

Filmography[link]

Film[link]

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Awards[link]

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External links[link]

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• Interview with Robert Sheehan on the Irish Film and Television Network, 7 October 2010