Brendan Gleeson, The Guard

One of the world's great actors Ireland's Brendan Gleeson, who currently stars opposite Don Cheadle in The Guard, corrects misinformation that he began acting at 34 after a career teaching, that he studied at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), that he's making a movie about John Ford's The Quiet Man or that, as a married father of four, he's gay!

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