Irish American actor
Educated by the Christian Brothers in Dublin.
Married to Irish actress Kitty Sullivan , with whom he appeared in a production of "My Fair Lady". Father of Steven OShea.
Classmate of actor Donal Donnelly in grade school.
Was twice nominated for Broadways Tony Award: in 1968 as Best Actor for "Staircase" and in 1982 as Best Actor (Play) or "Mass Appeal."
His mother was a harpist and ballet dancer, his father half of a singing duo.
Full-time actor from the age of seventeen.
Found little theatrical employment during his first stint in the U.S. and was forced to make ends meet working as an elevator operator at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. He consequently returned to Ireland where he found critical success on stage as Leopold Bloom in James Joyces Ulysses .
The band Duran Duran was named after his character in the movie Barbarella.
