John Lynch is an Irish actor from Northern Ireland. Biography John Lynch was born in the United Kingdom and moved to his father's native home in Corrinshego, County Armagh, near Newry in Northern Ireland as a child. He attended St Colman's College, Newry, a Catholic school. He began acting in Irish Language plays at school during the early years of the conflict in Northern Ireland. He is the eldest of five children. He has said his family were "affected" by The Troubles but like everyone else they got on with our lives. His mother is Italian and his father is Irish. He is also a novelist. His first novel, Torn Water, was published in November 2005 by the Fourth Estate, a literary imprint of Harper and Collins, and his second, Falling Out of Heaven, was published on 13 May 2010 by the same publisher. He seperated from wife, Mary McGuckian, in 2008 and the marriage was annulled mid-2012. Acting career Lynch has appeared in numerous films related to Northern Ireland's problems, among others, such as Cal with Helen Mirren, In the Name of the Father with Daniel Day-Lewis, The Railway Station Man with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, Nothing Personal and Some Mother's Son also with Helen Mirren, as well as the Irish-themed film Evelyn with Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn and Julianna Margulies. He starred as Gwyneth Paltrow's boyfriend in Sliding Doors, as a supporting actor in Derek Jarman's Edward II, and worked with American independent film director John Sayles on The Secret of Roan Inish. He also played Lord Craven in Agnieska Holland's film of The Secret Garden with Maggie Smith. In 2005 he starred in a remake of the film Lassie with Peter O'Toole and Samantha Morton and also Billy O'Brien's first feature Isolation with Sean Harris and Ruth Negga. Lynch played the part of football legend George Best in the 2000 film Best. He also played the lead in the Australian feature Angel Baby, winning the Australian Film Institute award for best leading actor and the Australian Film Critics award for best actor of 1995. He was nominated for a Satellite Film Award for the film Moll Flanders in 1996. He worked with acclaimed Belgian director Marion Hansel on her adaptation of Booker-nominated author Damon Galgut's novel The Quarry, which won Best Film at the Montreal Film Festival. He won Best Actor for the lead role in Best at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival in 2000. He wrote and co-produced the film. He was nominated for a BAFTA for the film Cal. He has also been nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award for his role in the ITV film The Baby War. He has also starred in the film Five Day Shelter playing the role of Stephen, which won a European Film Award and was in competition at the Rome Film Festival. More recently, he has played the lead in Craig Vivieros' first feature film, the prison drama Ghosted. He played the role of Wollfstan in Christopher Smith's film The Black Death, and also played a sergeant major in Pat O'Connor's well received film of the Michael Morpurgo novel Private Peaceful.This is a synthesized speech reading of the Wikipedia article "John Lynch (actor)" and is intended primarily for blind and visually impaired individuals who can not view Wikipedia. This video can also be used for mobile users who wish to listen to Wikipedia articles on the go, or by those who wish to learn a second language by reading the captions in that language while listening in English. Original article available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lynch_(actor) All text from Wikipedia is licensed under CC-BY-SA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_content "You are free ... to make commercial use of the work": http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Text-to-speech synthesized from FestVox, which permits commercial use: "no restrictions on its use (commercial or otherwise)" http://festvox.org/festival/downloads.html Note: all these licenses permit commercial use, and therefore we are permitted to monetize videos derived from these contents.

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