# Finbar Lynch

Finbar Lynch (born 28 August 1959) is an Irish actor.

## Early life

Lynch was born in Dublin and, at the age of 11, moved with his family to the village of Inverin, County Galway, where his father ran a clothing factory under a scheme to encourage business investment in Gaeltacht areas. Lynch has two brothers.

## Career

Back in Dublin at the age of 18, Lynch doorknocked local theatres seeking acting work but was turned down due to lack of experience. Working as a stagehand, he successfully auditioned for a minor role in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, which started off his acting career. In 1999, Lynch was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play for his performance as Canary Jim in the Broadway run of the rediscovered Williams play Not About Nightingales.
Lynch's television work includes recurring appearances in the soap opera Glenroe, Proof, Breathless and the miniseries Small World; as Doctor Martin Wells in the Bourne spin-off television series Treadstone, along with as minor appearances in Waking the Dead, Dalziel and Pascoe, Inspector George Gently, DCI Banks, Game of Thrones, Foyle's War, and The Mallorca Files.

## Personal life

Lynch is married to actress Niamh Cusack and they have a son, Calam Lynch, who is also an actor.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1983 | The Schooner | Joe | |
| 1986 | Rawhead Rex | Andy Johnson | |
| 1996 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Puck / Philostrate | |
| 2003 | To Kill a King | Cousin Henry | |
| 2004 | Mathilde | The Major | |
| 2013 | The Numbers Station | Michaels | |
| 2015 | Child 44 | Doctor Boris Zarubin | |
| 2015 | Suffragette | Hugh Ellyn | |
| 2015 | Departure | Philip | |
| 2016 | Property of the State | Heffernan | |
| 2018 | Black '47 | Brown | |
| 2020 | Adventures of a Mathematician | G. D. Birkhoff | |
| 2020 | The World We Knew | Carpenter | |
| 2022 | York Witches' Society | Matthias | |
| 2023 | Unwelcome | Father Brendan | |
| TBA | Hedda | TBA | Post-production |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1982–1983 | Les Poneys sauvages | George (aged 18) | 4 episodes |
| 1983–1987 | Glenroe | Matt Moran | |
| 1987 | Three Wishes for Jamie | Mattie (uncredited) | Television film |
| 1988 | Small World | Persse McGarrigle | 6 episodes |
| 1994 | Between the Lines | Danny McLaughlin | Episode: "Shoot to Kill" |
| 1998 | Performance | Edmund | Episode: "King Lear" |
| 1998 | The Scold's Bridle | Dave Hughes | 2 episodes |
| 1998 | Riddler's Moon | Kevin Sanders | Television film |
| 1999 | Holby City | Stranger | Episode: "Tidings of Comfort and Joy" |
| 2000 | Waking the Dead | Jimmy Marshall | 2 episodes |
| 2000 | Second Sight: Hide and Seek | Gavin Finn | Television film |
| 2001 | Mind Games | DCI Chris Medwynter | Television film |
| 2001 | The Lost Battalion | Pvt. Ferguson | Television film |
| 2003 | Red Cap | Liam Young | Episode: "Cold War" |
| 2004–2005 | Proof | Terry Corcoran | Main role |
| 2005 | Dalziel and Pascoe | Dave Cashman | 2 episodes |
| 2005 | Born with Two Mothers | Narrator (voice) | Television film |
| 2007 | Richard Is My Boyfriend | Narrator (voice) | Television film |
| 2007 | Comedy Showcase | Concrete O'Hara | Episode: "The Eejits" |
| 2008 | Inspector George Gently | Ruairi O'Connell | Episode: "The Burning Man" |
| 2012 | Silk | Jody Farr | 4 episodes |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown | Lord Marshal | Episode: "Richard II" |
| 2013 | Breathless | Monty Meecher | 5 episodes |
| 2014 | DCI Banks | Ian Bassett | 2 episodes |
| 2014 | Game of Thrones | Farmer Hamlet | Episode: "Breaker of Chains" |
| 2015 | Foyle's War | Avraham Greenfeld | Episode: "Trespass" |
| 2015 | The Musketeers | Baltasar | Episode: "The Good Traitor" |
| 2015 | Antigone at the Barbican | Teiresias | Television film |
| 2019 | Treadstone | Dr. Martin Wells | 3 episodes |
| 2019 | The Feed | Aiden | Episode #1.8 |
| 2019 | The Mallorca Files | Paco | Episode: "The Oligarch's Icon" |
| 2020 | Devils | William Trevor | Episode #1.4 |
| 2022 | Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan | Vice President Robert Fleming | 3 episodes |
| 2024 | The Regime | Joseph Vernham | Episode: "The Heroes' Banquet" |