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Adrian Dunbar (born 1 August 1958), is a Northern Irish actor best known for his television and theatre work. Dunbar co-wrote and starred in the 1991 film, Hear My Song, nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the BAFTA awards.

Dunbar was born and brought up in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, the eldest of seven siblings. He was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers before attending the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He has a daughter and stepson from his 1986 marriage to the Australian actress Anna Nygh.

Dunbar (left, as Thomas Kelly) and Robbie Coltrane in the 1993 Cracker episode The Mad Woman in the Attic.

Dunbar has appeared in such notable films as My Left Foot, The Crying Game, and The General. He has also had leading roles in the films Triggermen, Shooters, How Harry Became A Tree (with Colm Meaney), Richard III, and Widows' Peak. On television, he starred in the first episode of Cracker, and has been in many British productions, including Tough Love, Inspector Morse, Kidnapped, Murphy's Law, Murder in Mind, and the 2005 re-staging of The Quatermass Experiment, among many others.

An incomplete list of Dunbar's theatre credits include The Shaughraun and Exiles at Dublin's Abbey Theatre; Real Dreams and The Danton Affair at the Royal Shakespeare Company; King Lear, Pope's Wedding, Saved and Up To The Sun And Down To The Centre at Royal Court Theatre, Conversations on a homecoming at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, and A Trinity of Two (as Oscar Wilde) at Dublin's Liberty Hall Theatre. He also played the role of Aufidius in the BBC Radio production of Coriolanus. He recently directed a critically-acclaimed production of Philadelphia Here I Come!.

Dunbar will be directing Connolly, a movie about Irish labour union organizer James Connolly as seen through the eyes of his daughter, Nora. Filming is slated to begin in Autumn 2006 with release planned for Spring 2007 (see website for Rascal Films).

• He was cast as Bail Organa for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and appeared in costume in publicity stills, but his scene was cut, and the character was re-cast with Jimmy Smits for later episodes.
• He fronts his own band Adie Dunbar and the Jonahs.
• He sings "The Curragh of Kildare" with Brian Kennedy on Kennedy's On Song.
• He narrates the audiobook productions of Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series.

• Adrian Dunbar at the Internet Movie Database