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Eamonn Owens With no previous acting experience, Irish-born Eamonn Owens impressed a casting assistant enough to make the finals for the leading role in Neil Jordan's "The Butcher Boy" (1997), adapted from Patrick McCabe's.
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Eamonn Owens is known as an Actor. Some of his work includes The Butcher Boy, The Magdalene Sisters, Angela's Ashes, Breakfast on Pluto, The General, Dead Bodies, The Boys & Girl from County Clare, and St. Patrick: The Irish Legend.
This piece is about director Neil Jordan's seven most overtly supernatural, fairy tale-like films—The Company of Wolves, High Spirits, Interview with the Vampire, The Butcher Boy, In Dreams, Ondine, and his latest, the mother-daughter vampire shocker Byzantium.
With no previous acting experience, Irish-born Eamonn Owens impressed a casting assistant enough to make the finals for the leading role in Neil Jordan's "The Butcher Boy" (1997), adapted from Patrick McCabe's. The then-13-year-old had been a participant in his hometown's marching band and had...
Oct 15, 2007 · Young Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens) grows up in a small Irish town in the 1960s. His father Benny (Stephen Rea) is a drunk, while his ma has to be carted off to the local asylum after a breakdown. Francie finds solace with his best friend Joe, but a tragic chain of circumstances is set in motion when the boys begin to terrorize their studious ...
With no previous filming experiences, Eamonn Owens and Alan Boyle (who played Francie's best friend, Joe) were found at the local school in Killeshandra in County Cavan where casting assistant Maureen Hughes went to visit her uncle. Owens' younger brother Ciaran was also cast. Jordan cast O'Connor because "she looks like the Virgin Mary." [2]
