Barry McGovern is an Irish stage, film, and television actor.
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Early life and education
Barry McGovern was educated at Castleknock College, Dublin.
Career
McGovern is a former member of the RTÉ Players and the Abbey Theatre Company. He has worked in theatre, film, radio and television, as well as written music for many shows, and co-written two musicals and directed plays and operas.
He is known internationally for his award-winning one-man Beckett shows I'll Go On and Watt, which the Gate Theatre presented at the 1985 and 2010 Dublin Theatre Festival respectively. McGovern revived I'll Go On for a run at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City for L.A.'s Center Theatre Group in 2014.
Awards and nominations
2012: Nominated, Lead Actor in a Play in the Ovation Awards, for the role of Vladimir in the Center Theatre Group production of Waiting For Godot
