Shane Quigley Murphy

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Shane Quigley Murphy
Born (1990-12-04) 4 December 1990 (age 33)
Ballinteer, Dublin, Ireland
OccupationActor
Television Fair City

Shane Quigley Murphy (born 4 December 1990) is an Irish actor from Ballinteer, Dublin. [1] He is best known for his role as Gareth Boyle in the Irish soap opera, Fair City , for which he has starred in since 2022. [2]

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Career

Television

Quigley Murphy has appeared in several television series. In 2017, he appeared as 'Patrick' in the drama series, Outlander. In 2021, he appeared as 'Thespin Pilot Obsidian' in the Apple TV+ series, Foundation. Later that year he played ‘Dean Fearon’ in the first season of the RTÉ television crime drama series Kin.[ citation needed ] In 2022, he starred as Aelfrun in the Netflix series, Vikings: Valhalla . In late 2022, Quigley Murphy joined the cast of, Fair City , playing the character, Gareth Boyle. Since his first appearance he has featured in some of the programme's most talked-about storylines. [3] [4] [5]

Film

Quigley Murphy played a leading role in Kill Your Lover directed by Alix Austin and Keir Siewert which premiered at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival on October 12, 2023. [6]

Theatre

In 2016, Quigley Murphy had a role in Circle of Fifths directed by Matt Lenton at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In December 2018, he played the role of Little John in the Mill Theatre Dundrum production of Robin Hood. [7] In May 2019, Quigley Murphy starred as Lennox & Starveling/Fairy/Moth in Shakespeare's Rose Theatre's production of Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream. [8] Later that year he starred as 'The Beast' in the Mill Theatre Dundrum production of Beauty and the Beast. [9]

Video games

In 2020, Quigley Murphy voiced the main playable character in the Ubisoft’s video game Watch Dogs: Legion directed by Clint Hocking and Kent Hudson. [10]

Other work

Dancing with the Stars

On 4 December 2023, Quigley Murphy was announced as one of the celebrities taking part in the seventh season of the Irish version of Dancing with the Stars . [11]

Filmography

YearFilm/TelevisionRoleNotes
2011The Modern Man Makes a SandwichThieving Gorging FoolShort film
2015Jesse FunctionsTommy
2016ImmortalisedStephen Cassidy
2016True ValueRussellShort film
2017 Outlander Patrick
2021 Foundation Thespin Pilot Obsidian
2021 Kin Dean Fearon
2022 Vikings: Valhalla Aelfrun
2022– Fair City Gareth Boyle
2023Kill Your LoverAxel

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