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Risteárd Cooper is one third of the hugely popular Apres Match, which first appeared on RTE TV in 1996 and since then has appeared in sell-out live shows in Vicar Street, the Gaiety Theatre and at festivals and venues across Ireland, as well as on best-selling video/dvd. 

He graduated from the acting programme at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College and lived in New York for several years where he worked at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Irish Rep. and Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre company, playing Mickey in the American premiere of Jez Butterworth’s award winning play, Mojo.

Lead roles in major shows in Ireland include Auntie and Me with Anna Manahan at the Gaiety Theatre, the original production of I Keano at the Olympia, Pyper in Observe The Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme at the Abbey Theatre and numerous productions at the Gate Theatre; Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband, Pierre in See You Next Tuesday, Jerry in Betrayal (Pinter Festival), Freddie in The Deep Blue Sea.

Film and television credits include The State Of Us, (which he co-wrote with Gerry Stembridge) Batman Begins, The Closer You Get and the role of Marty the all-action detective in Glenroe. In 2005 he appeared as a variety of characters in Hector and Risteárd Chasing the Lions for Peer Pressure/TV3 and on the best-selling DVD.

Risteárd played the leading role of Michael in Bittersweet directed by Declan Eames for Element Films/RTE, for which he received a Best Actor nomination at the 2009 Monte Carlo Television Festival Award. He spent several weeks in South Africa looking for mischief with Hector O hEochagain on www.chasethelions.com, their website dedicated to the fortunes of the British and Irish Lions rugby tour in South Africa, about which he also wrote for The Irish Times. Most recently Risteard appeared as Dmitri in the acclaimed production of Brian Friel’s The Yalta Game directed by Patrick Mason for the Sydney Festival 2009, the Edinburgh Festival 2009 and the Gate Theatre, Dublin.

Risteard appeared in the leading role of Setanta de Paor in An Crisis a 6-part Irish language comedy series for Wildfire Films/TG4 for which he was nominated for a Monte Carlo Television Festival Award in 2010. He most recently appeared in the critically acclaimed and hugely popular production of Pygmalion directed by Annabelle Comyn at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in which he played Henry Higgins. He is currently appearing as Joxer in Howard Davie’s production of O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock in a co-production between the Abbey Theatre and Royal National Theatre, London with Ciaran Hinds and Sinead Cusack which transferred from the Abbey Theatre, Dublin to the National Theatre, London in late 2011 (Lyttelton Stage) and will perform in rep there until late February 2012.

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