Adrian Dunbar

Adrian Dunbar recently starred in Kiss Me, Kate at the Barbican Theatre in London.

Adrian Dunbar is an acclaimed , multi-award winning Irish screen and stage actor, best known for his roles in TV dramas including Line of Duty.

Adrian Dunbar’s theatre and stage credits include The Shaughraun and Exiles at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre; Real Dreams and The Danton Affair at the Royal Shakespeare Company; King Lear, Pope’s Wedding, Saved and Up to the Sun And Down to the Centre at the Royal Court Theatre; Conversations on a Homecoming at the Lyric Theatre Belfast; A Trinity of Two as Oscar Wilde at Dublin’s Liberty Hall Theatre and Boeing Boeing in London.

Adrian is also a Theatre director and has staged productions for the Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival as well as a critically acclaimed production of Philadelphia Here I Come.

His television credits include all six series of BBC One’s Line of Duty playing Superintendent Ted Hastings. Adrian has appeared as Alan Cox in The Jump, Matin Summers in Ashes To Ashes, Richard Plantagenet in The Hollow Crown, and as Father Flaherty in Broken. Adrian also stars as DI Ridley in the ITV drama crime series Ridley, of which he is also an associate producer.

Adrian’s film credits include My Left foot, The Crying Game and The General. Adrian has also appeared in Triggerman, Shooters, How Harry Became A Tree, Richard III and Widow’s Peak.

He also co-wrote and starred in the film Hear My Song, nominated for a BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay.

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