
Acting
Dec 31, 1969
Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Paul Ireland
Acting
Biography
Paul Ireland (born 1970, Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, Scotland) is a Scottish actor, producer, and director who moved to Australia in 2009. Before pursuing acting, he worked as a fishmonger in his father's shop in Greenock, Renfrewshire, for five years. He made his professional stage debut in 1995 in the West End's Trainspotting at the Ambassadors Theatre, which won the Sunday Times Best New Play award. He is married to casting director Thea McLeod, with whom he has a son, Finn Ireland, also an actor. His most notable screen roles include Superintendent Duncan Hayes in the Australian soap opera Neighbours (2011–2025) (Aaron Pedersen, Stefan Dennis), the Barman in Michael Radford's B. Monkey (1998) (Ewan McGregor, Ralph Fiennes), and Joel Parker in the ABC comedy Outland (2012). He also co-wrote, produced, and directed the Australian drama Pawno (2015), and appeared in New Gold Mountain (2021).
Feature Films (11)

Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.
The Turning

King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force, a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate daughter's discovery of the creature.
The King's Daughter

An ex footballer, embroiled in a scandal, returns to his hometown to clear his name and reignite an old flame.
Blinder

Tells the story of Jesus Christ at age seven as he and his family depart Egypt to return home to Nazareth. Told from his childhood perspective, it follows young Jesus as he grows into his religious identity.
The Young Messiah

A darkly humorous look at the lives and loves of four modern women, each with their own remarkable, intriguing and often tragic stories.
Wedding Belles

Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the only thing they have in common is being classmates. In addition, the deaths appear to be related to a mysterious "faceless child."
Class of '76

Jonathan Cake, Jemma Redgrave and Hugh Bonneville lead an outstanding cast in this mini-series tracing the turbulent political career and tempestuous private life of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists during the 1930s. The mini series charts Mosley's rise to political notoriety through his personal life – from youthful rising star of the Conservative Party to potential leader of the Labour Party, and later abandonment of conventional party politics to become a figurehead of burgeoning fascism.
Mosley

When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace's innocent and chivalrous ways, Beatrice resolves to reform. But to cash in on her first chance at real love, she must escape her former partner in crime, the ruthless Paul Neville -- and a dark past that seems to haunt her every step.
B. Monkey

The story of David McMillan an Australian drug smuggler and the only person in history to escape from Klong Prem prison in Bangkok.
Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away

Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a judge to find a mysterious red book.
Jack Irish: Dead Point

A spate of computer thefts from government offices, a possible suicide under the wheels of a high-speed train, an absconded lifer on the loose, and a grisly trove of human bones in a garden all conspire to keep Davies on the job during a long Easter weekend.
The Long Bank Holiday
Television & Series (15)

Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series, each series is a stand alone story based on real-life events.
Underbelly

The uncensored story of one of Australia's most successful bands, INXS. A story of mateship, a story of success and excess, talent and sheer bloody will, set to a pulsating soundtrack including all of INXSs greatest hits.
INXS : Never Tear Us Apart

Maisie Raine was a drama series originally broadcast on BBC1 for 2 series from 28 July 1998 – 9 July 1999. Pauline Quirke took the lead role as DI Maisie Raine, an unorthodox detective whose hands on and down to earth approach was not always appreciated by her superiors. When she took on a case, she did it her way, regardless of whose toes she stepped on and who she offended. Each episode would see the team investigating a crime and often uncovering more about the perpetrators and the victims histories with DI Raine often becoming personally involved or bending the rules to get the results she wanted. Also starring alongside Quirke were Ian McElhinney, Steve John Shepherd, Rakie Ayola and Richard Graham.
Maisie Raine

The remarkable life and death of Van Nguyen, a Vietnamese Australian man who was convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore and executed for his crime in 2005.
Better Man

A high-stakes Aussie police drama following the lives of Melbourne’s finest girls and boys in blue – members of a prestigious Tactical Response team.






