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Laurence Kinlan was born in Dublin. His first role was playing the lead in Alan Bleasdale’s drama, Soft Sand Blue Sea for Channel 4. Other feature films include: Angela’s Ashes, Saltwater, Everlasting Piece, Last Days in Dublin, On The Nose directed by David Caffrey and Country directed by Kevin Liddy. He appeared in the TV series The Bill directed by Pip Broughton and as one of the main characters in RTE’s new series On Home Ground.

Theatre appearances include the role of Leonard in On Such As We, directed by Wilson Milam at the Abbey Theatre, A Month in the Country, directed by Jason Byrne, at the Abbey Theatre and Poor Beast in the Rain directed by Conor McPherson at the Gate Theatre, Dublin for which he was nominated for the Irish Times Best Supporting Actor Award 2006. More recently Laurence has appeared in Edward Bond’s Saved directed by Jimmy Fay at the Peacock Theatre and in Roddy Doyle’s adaptation of The Playboy of the Western World directed by Jimmy Fay at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

Laurence appeared in Ned Kelly as Dan Kelly alongside Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush and Naomi Watts in a Universal Pictures/Working Title production directed by Gregor Jordan. Laurence also appeared in Veronica Guerin directed by Joel Schumacher, The Halo Effect directed by Lance Daly, Intermission directed by John Crowley, Boy Eats Girl directed by Stephen Bradley and as Irwin in Breakfast on Pluto directed by Neil Jordan. Other films include Small Engine Repair directed by Niall Heery for Subotica Films and Johnny Was directed by Mark Hammond. He appeared as Doyle in My Boy Jack, directed by Brian Kirk for Ecosse/ITV.

Laurence recently appeared as Bartley in Druid Theatre Company’s production of Martin McDonagh’s play The Cripple of Inishmaan directed by Garry Hynes, which transferred to the Atlantic Theater, New York after appearing at the Dublin Theatre Festival and on UK and Irish tour, was nominated for several Outer Circle Critic and Drama League Awards and which is currently on tour across the United States of America (2011). On the Irish stage Laurence most recently appeared as Mossey Lannigan in Christ Deliver Us!, a new play by Tom Kilroy directed by Wayne Jordan at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin for which he received the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2011 and as The Covey in Wayne Jordan’s hugely acclaimed production of The Plough and the Stars also at the Abbey Theatre.

On screen Laurence most recently appeared as Elmo in Love/Hate a new TV mini-series by Stuart Carolan, directed by David Caffrey for Octagon Films/RTE and starring Robert Sheehan and Aidan Gillen which won numerous IFTA nominations in 2011. He also appears in the forthcoming feature The Guard written and directed by John McDonagh and starring Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson which was the Gala Premiere at this year’s Sundance Festival.