Robert Sheehan

Robert Sheehan (born 7 January 1988) is an Irish actor. He is best known for television roles such as Nathan Young in Misfits, Darren Treacy in Love/Hate, and Klaus Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy, as well as film roles such as Tom Natsworthy in Mortal Engines and Simon Lewis in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.

Sheehan has received multiple Irish Film and Television Award nominations and a British Academy Television Award nomination. In 2020, he was listed as number 41 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

Early life Sheehan was born in Portlaoise, County Laois. He is the youngest of three children born to Maria and Joe Sheehan, who was a garda.

At school, he played the banjo, the bodhrán, and the spoons, having joked that he was like "Footloose with spoons"; he also participated in Fleadh Cheoil.

Career Sheehan became interested in acting in primary school when he played Oliver in Oliver with a Twist. At the age of fourteen, he auditioned for Song for a Raggy Boy, and won the role, spending three months in Cork to film. He later joined the Laois Open Door theatre group, and played the crippled boy in a production of The Cripple of Inishmaan. At the age of 16, Sheehan appeared in the Australian television show Foreign Exchange. and portrayed King Louis XIV in Young Blades. In 2008, he appeared in Rock Rivals and Bitter Sweet, a two-part television comedy-drama. During this time, he also appeared in films including Ghostwood.

After leaving the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Sheehan starred as one of the lead characters in Cherrybomb in 2009. In March 2009, he appeared in the role of BJ in the Channel 4 trilogy Red Riding.

From 2009 to 2010, he starred as Nathan Young, a young offender, in the first two series of the British TV series Misfits. Regarded as a "cult favourite", Sheehan connected "intensely" with the role, and remarked it was "challenging" to leave it behind. He was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award for the role in 2011 and 2013.

Sheehan was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award in the Rising Star category in 2010. The following year, he starred in the film Killing Bono, He played Simon Lewis in the 2013 film The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, and followed it with roles in Anita B., The Road Within, Moonwalkers, and The Messenger in 2014 and 2015. During 2017, he also appeared in Geostorm and featured in the second season of Fortitude, for which he was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award. In 2018, he appeared in Genius: Picasso as Carlos Casagemas and in The Young Offenders Christmas special as a caricatured version of himself. He also appeared in several films; he starred alongside David Tennant in Bad Samaritan, appeared in the neo-noir film Mute, and starred in Mortal Engines in the leading role of Tom Natsworthy.

He was cast in August 2022 to be one of the main villains in the upcoming film Red Sonja. He will be playing Draygan.

In May 2024, Sheehan will play Withnail in the world premiere of Withnail and I by Bruce Robinson and directed by Sean Foley based on the 1987 film at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. In July, he will appear in Reunion written and directed by Mark O'Rowe for the Galway International Arts Festival.

Personal life Sheehan resides in West Cork. He has also lived in London and Los Angeles.

He was in a relationship with actress Sofia Boutella from March 2014 until October 2018. Demons Never Die Archie Eden Killing Bono Ivan McCormick 2013 Simon Lewis

Anita B. Eli The Road Within Vincent Rhoads

Moonwalkers Leon The Messenger Jack 2016 Jet Trash Lee Also producer

Three Summers Roland 2009 Red Riding BJ TV miniseries 2009–2010 Misfits Nathan Young Main cast (Seasons 1–2; 13 episodes, 1 internet mini-episode) 2010 Coming Up Jason Episode #5.07: Dip 2010–2013 Love/Hate Darren Tracey Series regular (Season 1–3; 16 episodes) 2011 Spiller Television film

Accused Stephen Cartwright 2 episodes: Stephen's Story, Tina's Story Me and Mrs Jones Billy Series regular 2017 Fortitude Vladek Klimov Series regular (series 2)

Genius: Picasso Carlos Casagemas 4 episodes The Young Offenders Himself Episode: Christmas Special 2019–2024 The Umbrella Academy Klaus Hargreeves Main cast 2022 The Last Bus Dalton Monkhouse Theatre

Awards and honours

In September 2013, Sheehan was honoured by University College Dublin's Literary and Historical Society. In October 2015, he received the Burke Medal for Contribution to Discourse Through The Arts from College Historical Society in Trinity College Dublin.

Year Award Category Role Result 2010 IFTA Rising Star IFTA Actor in a Lead Role – Television Darren Treacy – Love/Hate 2012 Actor in a Supporting Role – Television Nathan Young – Misfits 2013 Actor in a Lead Role – Television Darren Treacy – Love/Hate 2017 Actor in a Supporting Role – Drama Vladek Klimov – Fortitude