Finbar Lynch (born 28 August 1959) is an Irish actor.
Early life Lynch was born in Dublin and, at the age of 11, moved with his family to the village of Inverin, County Galway, where his father ran a clothing factory under a scheme to encourage business investment in Gaeltacht areas. Lynch has two brothers.
Career Back in Dublin at the age of 18, Lynch doorknocked local theatres seeking acting work but was turned down due to lack of experience. Working as a stagehand, he successfully auditioned for a minor role in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, which started off his acting career. In 1999, Lynch was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play for his performance as Canary Jim in the Broadway run of the rediscovered Williams play Not About Nightingales.
Lynch's television work includes recurring appearances in the soap opera Glenroe, Proof, Breathless and the miniseries Small World; as Doctor Martin Wells in the Bourne spin-off television series Treadstone, along with as minor appearances in Waking the Dead, Dalziel and Pascoe, Inspector George Gently, DCI Banks, Game of Thrones, Foyle's War, and The Mallorca Files.
In November 2025, it was announced that Lynch will star in the thriller film Banquet, directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, alongside Meghann Fahy, Alfie Williams, and Corey Mylchreest, and will be produced by David Yates.
Personal life Lynch is married to actress Niamh Cusack and they have a son, Calam Lynch, who is also an actor.
Filmography Film
+ Year Title RoleNotes 1983 The Schooner Joe 1986 Rawhead Rex Andy Johnson 1996 A Midsummer Night's Dream Puck / Philostrate 2003 To Kill a King Cousin Henry 2004 Mathilde The Major 2013 The Numbers Station Michaels 2015 Child 44 Doctor Boris Zarubin Suffragette Hugh Ellyn Departure Philip 2016 Property of the State Heffernan 2018 Black '47 Brown 2020 Adventures of a Mathematician G. D. Birkhoff The World We Knew Carpenter 2022 York Witches' Society Matthias 2023 Unwelcome Father Brendan 2025 Hedda Professor Greenwood Kapodistrias Klemens von Metternich TBA Filming
Television + Year Title RoleNotes 1982–1983 Les Poneys sauvages George (aged 18) 4 episodes 1983–1987 Glenroe Matt Moran 1987 Three Wishes for Jamie Mattie (uncredited) Television film 1988 Small World Persse McGarrigle 6 episodes 1994 Between the Lines Danny McLaughlin Episode: "Shoot to Kill"1998 Performance Edmund Episode: "King Lear" The Scold's Bridle Dave Hughes 2 episodes Riddler's Moon Kevin Sanders Television film 1999 Holby City Stranger Episode: "Tidings of Comfort and Joy"2000 Waking the Dead Jimmy Marshall 2 episodes Second Sight: Hide and Seek Gavin Finn Television film2001 Mind Games DCI Chris Medwynter Television film The Lost Battalion Pvt. Ferguson Television film 2003 Red Cap Liam Young Episode: "Cold War" 2004–2005 Proof Terry Corcoran Main role2005 Dalziel and Pascoe Dave Cashman 2 episodes Born with Two Mothers Narrator (voice) Television film2007 Richard Is My Boyfriend Narrator (voice) Television film Comedy Showcase Concrete O'Hara Episode: "The Eejits" 2008 Inspector George Gently Ruairi O'Connell Episode: "The Burning Man"2012 Silk Jody Farr 4 episodes The Hollow Crown Lord Marshal Episode: "Richard II" 2013 Breathless Monty Meecher 5 episodes2014 DCI Banks Ian Bassett 2 episodes Game of Thrones Farmer Hamlet Episode: "Breaker of Chains"2015 Foyle's War Avraham Greenfeld Episode: "Trespass" The Musketeers Baltasar Episode: "The Good Traitor" Antigone at the Barbican Teiresias Television film2019 Treadstone Dr. Martin Wells 3 episodes The Feed Aiden Episode #1.8 The Mallorca Files Paco Episode: "The Oligarch's Icon" 2020 Devils William Trevor Episode #1.4 2022 Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Vice President Robert Fleming 3 episodes 2024 The Regime Joseph Vernham Episode: "The Heroes' Banquet"
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