Finbar Lynch


Finbar Lynch is an Irish actor.

Early life

Lynch was born in Dublin and, at the age of 11, moved with his family to the village of Inverin, County Galway, where his father ran a clothing factory under a scheme to encourage business investment in Gaeltacht areas. Lynch has two brothers.

Career

Back in Dublin at the age of 18, Lynch doorknocked local theatres seeking acting work but was turned down due to lack of experience. Working as a stagehand, he successfully auditioned for a minor role in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, which started off his acting career. In 1999, Lynch was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play for his performance as Canary Jim in the Broadway run of the rediscovered Williams play Not About Nightingales.
Lynch's television work includes recurring appearances in the soap opera Glenroe, Proof, Breathless and the miniseries Small World; as Doctor Martin Wells in the Bourne spin-off television series Treadstone, along with as minor appearances in Waking the Dead, Dalziel and Pascoe, Inspector George Gently, DCI Banks, Game of Thrones, Foyle's War, and The Mallorca Files.
In November 2025, it was announced that Lynch will star in the thriller film Banquet, directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, alongside Meghann Fahy, Alfie Williams, and Corey Mylchreest, and will be produced by David Yates.

Personal life

Lynch is married to actress Niamh Cusack and they have a son, Calam Lynch, who is also an actor.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1983The SchoonerJoe
1986Rawhead RexAndy Johnson
1996A Midsummer Night's DreamPuck / Philostrate
2003To Kill a KingCousin Henry
2004MathildeThe Major
2013The Numbers StationMichaels
2015Child 44Doctor Boris Zarubin
2015SuffragetteHugh Ellyn
2015DeparturePhilip
2016Property of the StateHeffernan
2018Black '47Brown
2020Adventures of a MathematicianG. D. Birkhoff
2020The World We KnewCarpenter
2022York Witches' SocietyMatthias
2023UnwelcomeFather Brendan
2025HeddaProfessor Greenwood
2025KapodistriasKlemens von Metternich
TBAFilming

Television