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TWO IRISH ACTORS have been nominated for a Bafta Rising Star Award this year.
Dubliner Barry Keoghan and Kerry native Jessie Buckley have both been nominated for the prestigious award.
The pair are joined by three other actors in the nominations: Cynthia Erivo, Lakeith Stanfield and Letita Wright.
Keoghan (26) has risen to fame over the last few years after first appearing in RTÉ crime drama Love/Hate. Since then, he has gone on to star in Dunkirk and won a lot of praise for his performance in the Killing of a Sacred Deer, alongside Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman.
Buckley (29) came to prominence after coming second in the 2008 BBC show I’d do Anything, a competition in which famed musical composer Andrew Lloyd Webber searched for a young star to play Nancy in the West End production of Oliver!.
Since then, she’s gone onto feature in a number of theatre and West End productions.
She’s also won praise for her work in TV and film. Last year, she played Moll in film Beast, as well as Marya Bolkonskaya in BBC’s War and Peace.
The pair are joined by three other actors in the nominations: Cynthia Erivo, Lakeith Stanfield and Letita Wright.
British Cynthia Irvo was highly praised for her performance in Steve McQueen’s heist movie Widows, while Lakeith Stanfield has been winning widespread acclaim for his performances in 2017′s Get Out, and last year’s movie Sorry to bother You, among others.
Guyanese-born British actor Letita Wright is best known for her performance as Shuri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The Rising Star Award is an audience choice award, with people voting for their favourite and the final winner being announced at the ceremony.
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@Denis Patrick Gill: The IRA were those men and women who with the support of the majority fought for our Independence in 1919-21. Those that followed after are not nor ever will be patriots. They are Traitors to the Irish people. They have attacked and murdered servants of the Irish State ( Members of the Gardai and a Prison Officer) they have committed multiple crimes against the citizens of the Republic, from Kidnapping for ransom to Armed Robbery, from Drug Dealing to Extortion. No crime is beneath them even rape and paedophilia. Those that followed after the originals, Patriots!! No I don’t believe so, Thugs, Criminals, Murderers would be closer to the truth.
@Denis Patrick Gill: The patriots of 1916 would turn in their graves with vermin like those marchers and you commemorating them
@Denis Patrick Gill: whereas you only support the murder of journalists, aren’t you a saint
@Mick.: Couldn’t have put it better myself. Well said Mick!
@Denis Patrick Gill: another deluded dinosaur, time to come into the 21st century! This is 2019 not 1929. The days of running around with guns is OVER! Ffs grow up!!!
@Denis Patrick Gill: The so called IRA have murdered their fair share of born and unborn children
These are not real soldiers, and most certainly not representing the majority of Ireland. I believe in peace and dialogue The men of 1916 must be turning in there grave at the vermin that is trying to associate with them.. they can’t hold a candle to the men who fought in the 1916.
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