John Lynch

John Lynch (born 26 December 1961) is an actor and novelist from Northern Ireland. He won the AACTA Awards Award for Best Actor for his performance in Angel Baby. His notable screen credits include Cal, The Secret Garden, In the Name of the Father, Sliding Doors, the television series The Fall, Medici, The Head, The Banishing, and Blue Lights. Lynch is also the author of the novels Torn Water and Falling Out of Heaven.

Early life Lynch was born in England to an Irish father, Fin Lynch, and an Italian mother, Rosina Pavone, better known as Rose. His mother was from Trivento, a town in the Province of Campobasso in Molise, Southern Italy. His parents met in London, where his mother was a teacher. He is the eldest of five siblings, The Railway Station Man (1992) with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, In the Name of the Father (1993) with Daniel Day-Lewis, Nothing Personal (1995) and Some Mother's Son (1996), also with Mirren, as well as the Irish-themed film Evelyn (2002). In Some Mother's Son, he played the role of Irish Republican hunger strike leader Bobby Sands.

He was a supporting actor in Derek Jarman's Edward II (1991), as Lord Craven in Agnieska Holland's film The Secret Garden (1993), as Tadhg in The Secret of Roan Inish (1994), and as Gerry in Sliding Doors (1998). He was nominated for a Satellite Film Award for the film Moll Flanders in 1996. He starred in Five Day Shelter as Stephen, which won a European Film Award and was in competition at the Rome Film Festival. In 2011, he played the lead in Craig Vivieros' first feature film, the prison drama Ghosted. He played the role of Wollfstan in Black Death, and appeared in the 2012 film version of Michael Morpurgo's novel, Private Peaceful.

Filmography Film

Television

Awards and nominations Year Award Category Nominated work Result British Academy Film Awards BAFTA for Most Promising Newcomer To Film Cal Australian Film Institute Awards AFI Best Actor in a Lead RoleAngel Baby Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Actor - Male Satellite Awards Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Moll Flanders Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Jury Award for Best Actor Best IFTA Film & Drama Awards Best Supporting Actor in Television The Baby War