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On Peacock’s new comedy series\u00a0The Paper<\/a>, Domhnall Gleeson plays Ned Sampson<\/a>, the ambitious fresh face at the head of a dying local newspaper. In the mockumentary-style comedy, the same film crew that followed Dunder Mifflin on The Office<\/a> is now following Ned’s attempts to revive the paper with volunteer reporters.<\/p>\n As the show’s trailer reveals<\/a>, The Paper’s Ned speaks with an American accent. But in real life, the\u00a042-year-old Tony and Golden Globe-nominated actor who plays him was born in Dublin, Ireland and thus speaks with an Irish accent (hear it in this interview<\/a> with Graham Norton). Fortunately, Gleeson’s accent work is just as varied and impressive as his acting career, and he’s proven he can play pretty much anyone: Star Wars villain, Weasley brother in the Harry Potter<\/a> franchise, time traveler, crooked lawyer, and more.<\/p>\n Learn all about Domhnall Gleeson’s acting career below.<\/p>\n RELATED: Meet the Cast of Peacock’s\u00a0The Paper<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n In the early years of his career, Gleeson wrote and directed short films while also acting on stage and screen, but his breakout role came when he was cast in the Harry Potter<\/a> franchise.<\/p>\n In 2010, Gleeson made his wizarding world debut as Bill Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. The older brother of Ron, Fred, George, Charlie, and Ginny, he returned from his work with Gringotts Bank to help defeat Voldemort in the final battle. He also married Fleur Delacour (Cl\u00e9mence Po\u00e9sy) and was mauled by a werewolf leaving him with scars and a love for rare steak.<\/p>\n Gleeson also appeared in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2\u00a0(2011) and even reprised the role in new footage for the Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts<\/a> ride at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n Domhnall Gleeson walks the carpet of the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards<\/p>\n Fun fact: Domhnall Gleeson’s father, Brendan Gleeson, also appeared in the Harry Potter film series as\u00a0Alastor ‘Mad-Eye’ Moody!\u00a0Watch the complete\u00a0Harry Potter\u00a0film series on Peacock anytime.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n 2010 also saw Domhnall Gleeson star with Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan, and Kiera Knightley in the dystopian romance Never Let Me Go.<\/p>\n RELATED:\u00a0Everything to Know About Domhnall Gleeson’s Irish Accent, How to Pronounce His Name<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Gleeson starred opposite Rachel McAdams<\/a> in the 2013 Richard Curtis movie About Time.\u00a0He stars as Tim, a young romantic who learns from his father (Bill Nighy) that all the men in their family have the ability to time travel. As he falls in love with Mary (McAdams), he learns how to wield time travel to change his life for the better.<\/p>\n In 2014, Gleeson had another starring role alongside Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander in the science fiction horror movie\u00a0Ex Machina, followed by 2015’s Brooklyn with Saoirse Ronan and The Revenant with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy.<\/p>\n Ned (Domhnall Gleeson) stands on top of a desk in an office as people look up from their cubicles.<\/p>\n In 2014, Gleeson was cast as General Hux, commander of the Starkiller Base, in a new Star Wars trilogy. He spent all of The Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi (2017) trying to defeat the resistance before switching sides to help them\u00a0\u2014 and to reunite with Ex Machina co-star Isaac\u00a0\u2014\u00a0in The Rise of Skywalker (2019).<\/p>\n In 2017, he starred alongside his brother Brian Gleeson and Jennifer Lawrence in the horror film Mother! and played a CIA agent with Tom Cruise in American Made. In 2018, he played a workaholic trying to evict bunnies from his late uncle’s home in\u00a0Peter Rabbit,\u00a0and returned in 2021’s Peter Rabbit 2.<\/p>\n After starring in The Little Stranger (2018) and The Kitchen (2019), he took on several high profile TV projects. In 2020’s Run, he starred alongside Merritt Wever, Archie Panjabi, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and then joined his brother Brian Gleeson in 2021’s Frank of Ireland.<\/p>\n He played Watergate lawyer John Dean in the 2023 miniseries\u00a0White House Plumbers, and notably starred opposite The Office alum Steve Carell<\/a> in 2022’s The Patient. He played Sam Fortner, a serial killer who decided to get therapy for his addiction to killing people.<\/p>\n Gleeson has already starred in two streaming movies in 2025. In Fountain of Youth, he played a wealthy benefactor funding an expedition for Office alum John Krasinski<\/a> and Natalie Portman. In Echo Valley, he played a terrifying drug dealer who tormented Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney.<\/p>\n RELATED:\u00a0Steve Carell Reveals Domhnall Gleeson Called Him to Ask About The Office: “He’s Great”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Gleeson was initially reluctant to follow in the footsteps of his father,\u00a0Brendan Gleeson<\/a>, who was nominated for a 2022 Academy Award for\u00a0The Banshees of Inisherin\u00a0(and hosted\u00a0Saturday Night Live<\/a>\u00a0in Season 48)<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I’d been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father,” Domhnall Gleeson told Broadway.com<\/a> in 2006, when he earned a Tony nomination for The Lieutenant of Inishmore. “I thought I’d always have the father-son thing of ‘He got you the part.'”B<\/p>\n Brendan Gleeson was well known for his stage work in the 1980s, and began appearing on screen in the 1990s in movies like Braveheart, 28 Days Later, Mission: Impossible II, and A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Cast as Alastor Moody in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005, his son Domhnall would join him in the franchise a few years later.<\/p>\n Brendan and wife Mary Gleeson have four sons: Domhnall, Brian, Rory, and Fergus. Like Domhnall, Brian Gleeson is an actor who’s appeared in shows including\u00a0Bad Sisters, Peaky Blinders,\u00a0and\u00a0The Lazarus Project.\u00a0Fergus is a musician and Rory is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.<\/p>\nDomhnall Gleeson played a Weasley in the Harry Potter movies<\/h2>\n
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Domhnall Gleeson starred with Rachel McAdams in\u00a0About Time<\/h2>\n
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Domhnall Gleeson played a terrifying Star Wars villain<\/h2>\n
Domhnall Gleeson starred with The Office’s Steve Carell in the miniseries The Patient<\/h2>\n
Domnhall Gleeson’s father and brother are also successful actors<\/h2>\n