Colm Meaney, the Irish actor maybe greatest identified for taking part in Miles O’Brien throughout all seven seasons of “Star Trek: Deep Area 9” however with a wealth of different main movie and TV credit to his identify, is ready to be honored with the Irish Academy Award for lifetime achievement.

Introduced on the Irish Movie & Tv Academy (IFTA) awards on Feb. 14, the honour will have fun a profession spanning 5 a long time that has seen Meaney work with a number of the world’s most famous filmmakers and actors.

“To say I used to be stunned after I obtained the information that IFTA needed to offer me this award, can be an understatement. I used to be actually shocked,” mentioned Meaney. “To be requested to hitch this lengthy checklist of very illustrious earlier recipients is a big honour, and I’m thrilled and looking out ahead to an excellent evening in Dublin.”

Movie credit on Meaney’s resume embrace all three movies in Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy within the Nineteen Nineties: “The Commitments,” “The Snapper” and “The Van,” touchdown a Golden Globe nomination for “The Snapper”. Since then, different roles have included: “Intermission,” “The Lifeless,” “The Final of the Mohicans,” “Con Air,” “Layer Cake,” “Beneath Siege,” “Far and Away,” “Marlowe,” “Tolkien,” “Seberg,” “The Damned United,” “The Banker,” “Die Onerous 2,” “Kings,” “The Journey” and “How Harry Turned a Tree” (which received him his first IFTA award in 2002). Most lately he starred in “Within the Land of Saints and Sinners” reverse Liam Neeson and Kerry Condon and “Carry Them Down” with Barry Keoghan, and can quickly be seen in Jim Sheridan’s “Re-creation.”

On the TV facet, alongside “Star Trek: Deep Area 9,” Meaney appeared as an everyday in AMC’s “Hell on Wheels” and was extra lately seen in “Gangs of London,” “It’s At all times Sunny in Philadelphia” and “The Serpent Queen.”

“Colm is considered one of Eire’s most beloved and versatile actors, with a one-of-a-kind heat and roguish persona and wit that has endeared him to audiences proper throughout the globe,” mentioned IFTA CEO Áine Moriarty. “His illustrious display and stage profession has proven him to be such a skillful and nuanced actor in addition to a perfectly humorous main man. Regardless of his worldwide success, Colm has at all times been an unflinching supporter of home-grown Irish tasks and expertise coming by way of. The Irish Academy is honoured to pay tribute to Colm’s achievements, and his outstanding profession.”

The 2025 IFTA Nominations might be introduced Jan. 14.