Barry Keoghan
Saltburn star Barry Keoghan, 31, had a very tough childhood. His mother was a heroin addict, and he stayed in 13 foster homes between the ages of 5 and 12. His mother would visit him and his brother — until she died.
“It was the worst day of my life,” Keoghan told Ireland Unfiltered with Dion Fanning. “I was about 12 but there was something in me that I just took it and it made me stronger.”
He started appearing in school plays, and scored his first film role in in 2011 when he answered a casting notice for a film called Between the Canals, which was released in 2011. He went on to appear in films including Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer, as well as Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin — for which he recived an Oscar nomination — and Matt Reeves’ The Batman in a small but unforgettable role as The Joker.
He currently stars in Apple’s Masters of the Air. And besides being one of the most promising young actors who made it without family connections, he’s also an amateur boxer.
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