Peter Claffey

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Peter Claffey
Date of birth (1996-07-28) 28 July 1996 (age 28) [1]
Place of birth Portumna, County Galway, Ireland
Height1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight119 kg (18.7 st; 262 lb)
School Garbally College
University Bow Street Academy
Rugby union career
Position(s) Lock forward
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Galwegians RFC ()
Ballinasloe RFC ()
Terenure College RFC ()
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2015–2019 Connacht Rugby ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2016–2017 Ireland U20

Peter Claffey (born 28 July 1996) is an Irish actor and former rugby union player.

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Early life

Claffey is from Portumna, in County Galway, he attended Garbally College and played rugby union for Galwegians RFC. [2] [3]

Rugby union

Claffey played rugby union for Ballinasloe RFC in the Connacht Senior League. A lock forward, he joined the Connacht Rugby academy in 2015. He played for Ireland national under-20 rugby union team in the 2016 Six Nations Under 20s Championship. He signed a professional contract with Connacht Rugby in 2018. [4] [5] In 2019, he signed for Terenure College. [6]

Acting

Claffey trained in acting at the Bow Street Academy in Dublin. He made his professional stage debut in 2022 playing Iggy in Tom Murphy’s A Whistle in the Dark at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. [7]

His onscreen career began in 2022 with television appearances on the shows Harry Wild and Apple TV dark comedy Bad Sisters . [8] That year, he played Cormac in BBC Three comedy series Wreck , for which he filmed a second series in 2023. [9]

Claffey appears in the third series of Vikings: Valhalla and the Cillian Murphy led film-adaptation of Small Things Like These . [10] [11]

In April 2024, Claffey was cast in the Game of Thrones prequel series in the lead role of the legendary Ser Duncan the Tall—aka Dunk, in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight , written by George R. R. Martin and Ira Parker. It is set a century before the events of Game of Thrones, but 72 years after the start of House of the Dragon . [12] [13]

In 2024, he could be seen in season two of Bad Sisters, recast as the character Joe Walsh, love interest to Becca (Eve Hewson). [14]

Filmography

Key
†Denotes works that have not yet been released
YearTitleRoleNotes
2022Harry WildBillyEpisode: "An Unhappy Happy is a Dangerous Thing"
Bad Sisters CallumEpisode: "Explode a Man"
2022–2024 Wreck Comac Kelly12 episodes
2024 Vikings: Valhalla Dunstan4 episodes
2025 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms †Ser Duncan the TallLead role

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