Frank is a London-based Irish actor.
He was recently seen playing the role of Ciaran in Merman series Bad Sisters (Apple TV+); Gabe in SisterS (IFC Films/RTÉ); Greg in Emmerdale (ITV) and the role of Michael in Shane Meadow’s The Virtues (Channel 4/Warp Films).
He started his career as an Abbey player after graduating from drama college in Dublin. He has worked at the Abbey Theatre regularly over the past 20 years where he has appeared in various productions including The House, Donegal, Iphigenia at Aulis, Portia Coughlan, Away Alone, Sour Grapes, The Hamlet Project, The Countless Cathleen, Silverlands, The Winter Thief, On The Outside/On The Inside, The Comedy of Errors, Famine, Translations and Aristocrats among others.
Other recent theatre projects include Out of Joint’s production of All That Fall by Samuel Beckett (dir. Max Stafford Clark) at the Bristol Old Vic and Wiltons Music Hall, London; The Playboy of the Western World (dir. John Crowley) at the Old Vic, the role of Pato Dooley in Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane (dir. Joe Hill-Gibbins) at The Young Vic, London and Gaiety Theatre, Dublin; and A Particle of Dread (dir. Nancy Meckler) with the Field Day Theatre Company.
Further theatre work includes A Skull in Connemara, Philadephia Here I Come, Silverlands, Song of The Yellow Bittern and At Black Pigs Dyke (all with Druid); Words of Advice for Young People and Dream of Autumn (Rough Magic) and The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Belfry (Livin Dred’).
A well-known face in Irish and UK television, Frank has appeared in productions including Doctors and Casualty (both for the BBC) Glenroe, Rebel Heart, On Home Ground, Love is the Drug, Stardust, An Gaeltacht, Pure Mule, Single-Handed and Raw all for RTÉ. His film credits include roles in Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins; The Abduction Club; The Closer You Get; John Boorman’s The General; Noble directed by Stephen Bradley and the Jimi Hendrix biopic All Is By My Side directed by John Ridley.
