Desmond Eastwood

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Desmond Eastwood
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Lisburn
Education
OccupationActor
Years active2017-present
Television Normal People

Desmond Eastwood is a stage, television and film actor from Northern Ireland.

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Early life

Born in Lisburn, the son of Mary and Desmond Eastwood, he attended Friends' School, Lisburn. He graduated with a law degree from Queen's College, Belfast in 2014, before moving to Dublin to study acting at the Gaiety School of Acting. He has five siblings. His brother Colum is a film maker. [1] [2]

Career

He has appeared in television productions including Krypton , Vikings and Blood , working alongside Adrian Dunbar, and worked on Game Of Thrones . He also appeared in his brother's first feature film Black Medicine, which starred Antonia Campbell-Hughes. [1]

He could be seen in 2020 television series Normal People playing Niall who befriends the character Connell, played by Paul Mescal. [3] For his role in the series he was nominated for best supporting actor at the 17th Irish Film & Television Awards. [4] [5] Eastwood and Mescal were performing in The Lieutenant of Inishmore together on stage in Dublin when the production was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic. [6] Derry Girls writer Lisa McGee labelled his Normal People character "the soundest one", [7] and Eastwood later appeared in her series as Benny. [8]

He has roles in 2023 Liam Neeson film In the Land of Saints and Sinners , [9] and Pierce Brosnan film The Last Rifleman . [10] [11]

He plays and Detective Murray Canning in the first two series of the BBC One Northern Ireland police drama Blue Lights . [12] [13]

He can be seen in 2024 Swedish drama Stormskerry Maja . [14] He has an upcoming role in the Christoph Waltz comedy action film Old Guy . [15]

Partial filmography

Key
†Denotes works that have not yet been released
YearTitleRoleNotes
2018 Krypton Taz-Ran
2020 Normal People Niall
2020 Vikings Messenger
2021Black MedicineConor
2022 Derry Girls Benny
2023 In the Land of Saints and Sinners Curtis June
2023- Blue Lights DS Murray Canning
2023 The Last Rifleman Tony McCann
2024 Stormskerry Maja Lieutenant John Wilson
TBA Old Guy †Colton

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