Ardal O’Hanlon is an Irish actor, commedian and author.
He is best known for portraying Father Dougal McGuire in Father Ted, George Sunday/Thermoman in My Hero, and DI Jack Mooney in Death in Paradise. Ardal currently stars in How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, a dark new comedy from Derry Girls writer Lisa McGee. He most recently starred in the West End in Florian Zeller’s brilliant four-hander The Truth at the Apollo Theatre in London.
He has written two novels The Talk of the Town and Brouhaha.
TV credits include: Showkids, Sherlock & Daughter, Return to Paradise, Fran: The Man, Extraordinary (voice), Rosie Molloy Gives up Everything, Derry Girls, Death in Paradise, Nelly & Nora, London Irish, My Hero, Blessed, Big Bad World, Father Ted
Film credits include: Fran the Man, My Freaky Family, Twice Shy, Handsome devil, Donkeys, Wide Open Spaces.













