Academy Award-nominated actor STEPHEN REA (Alistair Pratt) is one of today’s leading actors, having delivered critically acclaimed performances in film, television, and theater. Rea’s long-standing relationship with renowned director Neil Jordan has spanned seven films. His most notable collaboration with Jordan has been The Crying Game, for which he received an Academy Award nomination and The National Society of Film Critics Award for best Actor in 1992. Other collaborations include the much-acclaimed film The Butcher Boy; Michael Collins, with Liam Neeson and Julia Roberts; Interview with the Vampire, with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt and In Dreams, with Annette Bening and Robert Downey, Jr. He also reunited with Jordan for The End of the Affair, starring opposite Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore.
Rea recently starred opposite Sarah Polley in Audrey Wells’ directorial debut Guinevere, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. His other films include Robert Altman’s Prêt-a-porter, Trojan Eddie, Angie, PrincessCaraboo, Bad Behaviour and Mike Leigh’s Life is Sweet. He was also seen in Peter Hyam’s The Musketeer, opposite Tim Roth, Catherine Deneuve, Mena Suvari and Justin Chambers. Upcoming for Rea is Evelyn for director Bruce Beresford.
Rea has also received praise for his television work. He has received a Golden Globe nomination for Crime of the Century in 1996 and he also starred in Chris Gerolmo’s Citizen X, for which he received the award for Best Actor at the Catalonian International Film Festival in Spain in 1995. Rea recently starred as an Orthodox rabbi in Snow in August for Showtime.
A native of Belfast, Ireland, Rea formed the Field Day Theatre Company with respected Irish playwright Brian Friel in 1980, performing in all of the company’s productions, including Translation, Double Cross, Pentecost, Saint Oscar and Uncle Vanya. He also directed Field Day’s presentation of Three Sisters.
Rea’s other stage work includes Playboy of the Western World at London’s National Theatre; Aristocrats at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre; The Hampstead Theatre’s production of Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, which eventually moved to Broadway and earned Rea a Tony Award for Best Actor, and Harold Pinter’s Ashes to Ashes at The Royal Court Theatre in London.
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