Conor’s TV credits include Father Ted, Endeavour, Versailles, Charlie and Belgravia. He can be seen currently in Marie Antoinette Season 2 on BBC in the role of Jacques Necker. Upcoming cinema includes Charles De Gaulle, The Man with the Urn and Earl Grey.
Previous film work includes The Man in the Hat, Ritornello, I’ll Find You, De Gaulle (2020), Ritornello, L’entente Cordiale, Small Engine Repair and Moll Flanders.
On stage he continues to add to an impressive list of over 24 Beckett roles starring as Pozzo in the 2024 Gare St Lazare/Geffen Playhouse production of Waiting for Godot in Los Angeles, alongside Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi. And he is currently developing a new play by Will Eno in a role written for him.
He studied theatre at Scoil Stiofain Naofa in Cork prior to attending Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. At the same time, he joined Gare St Lazare Players Chicago and under Bob Meyer’s direction played Joey in The Homecoming by Pinter, Army in Requiem for A Heavyweight by Rod Serling, Karl in Banana For The Boy King by Bob Meyer and Noses in The Three Legged Fool by Anthony Ryan. He and Judy Hegarty Lovett founded Gare St Lazare Players Ireland in 1996 with their production of Beckett’s Molloy. Their subsequent Beckett work has cemented a reputation that places them among the foremost Beckett interpreters.
With Gare St Lazare, Conor has performed over 20 Beckett roles. For The Gate Theatre in Dublin, he has performed in the Beckett plays Acts Without Words 1 and 2, What Where and The Gate’s 50th anniversary revival of Waiting for Godot (2003), directed by Walter Asmus. In 2005 he played The Old Man In His Coffin in Fabulous Beast’s The Bull written and directed by Michael Keegan-Dolan (Teac Damsa). In 2007 he played David in the world première of Leaves by Lucy Caldwell directed by Garry Hynes for Druid/Royal Court. In 2007 Conor workshopped with Peter Brook for his production 11 and 12.
On television he has also appeared in Fair City, Fallout, Acceptable Risk and On The Hemline. He has read books and short stories on RTE and BBC Radio and has recorded Beckett’s Molloy and First Love on audio CD.
He won an Indie Award (Santa Barbara, USA for Conor McPherson’s The Good Thief) and The Stage Award for Acting Excellence at Edinburgh (for Title and Deed by Will Eno). He has been nominated for Best Actor (Moby Dick), Judges Special Prize (First Love & The End), Best Production (How It Is) and Best Ensemble (The Realistic Joneses) at The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, as well as for Best Actor (First Love) at The Off-West-End Awards (UK) and Best Solo Show (Title and Deed) at the Lucille Lortel Awards (New York).
