Colm Meaney

ActorProducer May 30 (age 72) Dublin, Ireland 1962–2026 (64 year career)

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Biography

Colm J. Meaney (born May 30, 1953) is an Irish actor. He is widely known for playing Chief Miles O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He is second only to Michael Dorn in most appearances in Star Trek episodes. He has guest starred on many other television shows, from Law & Order to The Simpsons, and has a significant career in motion pictures.

Known For

Film

Law Abiding Citizen

Detective Dunnigan

Film

Die Hard 2

Windsor Plane - Pilot

Film

The Last of the Mohicans

Major Ambrose

Film

Con Air

Agent Duncan Malloy

Film

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Miles O'Brien

Film

Layer Cake

Gene

Film

The Banker

Patrick Barker

Film

Pelé: Birth of a Legend

George Raynor

Filmography

Acting (153)

Movies (112)

Remarkably Bright Creatures

2026 Upcoming

May 8

Bring Them Down

2025

as Ray

6.8

Re-Creation

2025

as Ian Bailey

The Legend of the Happy Worker

Duchess

as Frank Monaghan

No Way Up

as Brandon

The Ballad of Davy Crockett

2024

as Caleb

5.0

The Problem with People

as Ciáran

Marlowe

as Bernie Ohls

In the Land of Saints and Sinners

as Robert McQue

There's Always Hope

as Jonathan

Unwelcome

as Colm “Daddy” Whelan

5.8

Save the Cinema

2022

as Martyn

6.2

Three Day Millionaire

as Mr. Barr

Confession

as Father Peter

The Monkey

as MacDonell

The Banker

as Patrick Barker

Pixie

as Dermot O'Brien

Tolkien

as Father Francis Morgan

Seberg

as Frank Ellroy

The Last Right

as Detective Donall Crowley

6.1

What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

2018

as Self

7.0

National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

as Big Daddy

Halal Daddy

as Martin Logan

The Journey

as Martin McGuinness

Pelé: Birth of a Legend

2016

as George Raynor

7.3

Norm of the North

2016

as Grandfather (voice)

4.7

The Secrets of Emily Blair

2016

as Father Avital

4.3

A Dangerous Arrangement

as Leslie

I Am Your Father

as Narrator (voice)

The Devil's Hand

as Elder Beacon

The Yank

as Fintan McGuire

Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things...

2014

as Miles O'Brien

A Belfast Story

2013

as Detective

4.4

Free Birds

2013

as Myles Standish (voice)

5.9

One Chance

2013

as Roland Potts

6.6

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

2013

as Patt Farrell

6.6

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds

2013

as Chief Miles O'Brien (archive footage)

7.3

Bel Ami

2012

as Monsieur Rousset

5.3

The Cold Light of Day

as Bandler

Soldiers of Fortune

as Mason

The Conspirator

as David Hunter

Whole Lotta Sole

as Detective Weller

The Perfect Stranger

as Mark O'Reilly

Muide Éire

as Himself

The Hot Potato

2011

as Harry

6.0

The Flight of the Swan

as Giannopoulos

Get Him to the Greek

as Jonathan Snow

Parked

as Fred Daly

Alleged

as H.L. Mencken

Law Abiding Citizen

as Detective Dunnigan

The Race

as Frank Kensay

The Damned United

as Don Revie

Three and Out

as Tommy Cassidy

Unnatural Causes

as Trevor Jones

Kings

as Joe Mullan

Caved In: Prehistoric Terror

as Vincent

Five Fingers

as Gavin

A Lobster Tale

as Cody

Turning Green

as Tom

Layer Cake

as Gene

Renegade

as Jimmy McClure

Bad Apple

as Gibbons

Battle of the Brave

as Benjamin Franklin

The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying

2004

as Inspector Brackenreid

The Murdoch Mysteries: Poor Tom Is Cold

2004

as Inspector Brackenreid

Intermission

2003

as Jerry Lynch

6.2

The Boys & Girl from County Clare

2003

as Jimmy

5.8

Deep Space Nine: Ending an Era

2003

as Self

Backflash

as Gin O'Malley

King of Texas

as Mr. Tumlinson

Random Passage

as Thomas Hutchings

How Harry Became a Tree

2001

as Harry

5.2

Mystery, Alaska

1999

as Mayor Scott Pitcher

Four Days

as Fury

This Is My Father

as Seamus

Chapter Zero

as Frank Lazaras

Owd Bob

as Keith Moore

Claire Dolan

as Roland Cain

Money Kings

as Al Sheehan

Monument Ave.

as Jackie O'Hara

October 22

as Steve

Con Air

as Agent Duncan Malloy

6.8

The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations

1996

as Self

The Van

1996

as Larry

6.4

The Last of the High Kings

1996

as Jim Davern

5.6

Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond

1996

as Self

5.8

The New Explorers: The Science of Star Trek

1995

as Self

4.2

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

1995

as Morgan the Goat

6.3

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior

1995

as Miles O'Brien

5.5

The Road to Wellville

as Dr. Lionel Badger

War of the Buttons

as Geronimo's Dad

Journey's End - The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation

as Self

The Snapper

as Dessie Curley

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes

1993

as Himself

1.0

The Last of the Mohicans

as Major Ambrose

Under Siege

as Daumer

Into the West

as Barreller

Far and Away

as Kelly

The Commitments

as Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.

7.3

Die Hard 2

1990

as Windsor Plane - Pilot

7.0

Dick Tracy

1990

as Cop at Tess'

6.1

Come See the Paradise

as Gerry McGurn

Perfect Witness

as Meagher

The Dead

as Mr. Bergin

The Gambler: The Legend Continues

as Tinkerer

Omega Syndrome

as Sean

Easter 2016

as Kevin Murphy

Nailed

1981

as Younger Protestant

The Panic

as J. Pierpont Morgan

Shelter Me

The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes

as Jack

Television (41)

Safe Harbor

as Kieran Walsh

The Santa Stories

as The No Man/ Bill

Scary Tales of New York

2023

as Storyteller

The Serpent Queen

2022

as Francis I of France

7.4

Back to Barrytown

2021

as Self / Narrator

Fúria

Gangs of London

as Finn Wallace

Gangs of London

as Finn Wallace

The Singapore Grip

as Major Brendan Archer

Will

as James Burbage

The Cowboy

as Self

Childhood's End

as Wainwright

The Driver

as The Horse

Hell on Wheels

as Thomas 'Doc' Durant

Mercy

Alice

as King of Hearts

ZOS: Zone of Separation

as George Titac

Life on Mars

The Unit

Men in Trees

as Bob O'Donnell

Covert One: The Hades Factor

2006

as Peter Howell

5.4

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

as Shelley Kelly

Stargate Atlantis

as Cowen

The Murdoch Mysteries

2004

as Inspector Brackenreid

5.9

Random Passage

2002

6.0

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001

as Harold Garrett

7.6

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

as Seamus Muldoon

Gargoyles

as Mr. Dugan (voice)

Scarlett

as Father Colum O'Hara

6.5

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

1993

as Miles O'Brien

7.9

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

1993

as Self

7.9

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

as Jake Slicker

Brooklyn Bridge

Law & Order

as Wyatt Landon

The Simpsons

as Tom O'Flanagan (voice)

8.0

Star Trek: The Next Generation

as Self

MacGyver

as Irwin Malcolm

Moonlighting

as Keterina Suitor (as Colm Meany)

7.5

Tales from the Darkside

as Constable

Strangers

as Peter Smolett

The Late Late Show

as Self

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Three Day Millionaire

2022

Executive Producer

4.9