Lalor Roddy

Dienstag, 30. November 1954

Lalor Roddy (born 30 November 1954) is a Northern Irish actor, described by the Irish Times theater critic Fintan O'Toole as "surely the finest Irish actor of his generation". Roddy was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 2014, he stated in an interview about his youth: "Theatre was very much part of our upbringing and the cinema as well. My mother was associated with the Lyric Theatre in its early days in both a managerial and performing capacity back when they were in Derryvolgie Avenue. We were dragged along to the theatre and I never lost a love for it. It was a magical experience where you were transformed to another world. My mother’s father managed cinemas in Belfast, in the Falls Road and the top of the Shankill, and he would have brought me along on a lot of Saturday