Barry Keoghan Biography

Irish actor Barry Keoghan’s big year was 2017, when he appeared as the innocent kid in Dunkirk and the creepy kid in The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

From Dublin’s Summerhill district, Keoghan was raised by relatives and foster care and got into acting without experience or formal training.

He earned parts on  U.K. television and small roles in movies, including ’71 (2014) and Traders (2015), before being cast as George in Christopher Nolan‘s World War II drama, Dunkirk, released in 2017.

Later that year, Keoghan appeared opposite Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman, playing a charming and disturbing young man in Yorgos Lanthimos‘s The Killing of a Sacred Deer.