Owen McDonnell

Owen McDonnell
Born	Owen McDonnell 1974 (age 42–43) Galway, Ireland
Occupation	actor
Partner(s)	Jill

Owen McDonnell (born 1974) is an Irish actor best known for playing Garda Sergeant Jack Driscoll in RTÉ Television's Single-Handed.

McDonnell was born in Galway in Ireland. He attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England. Before breaking into film and television, McDonnell did a lot of theatre in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

McDonnell had a role in the 2003 feature film Conspiracy of Silence. It was RTÉ Television's police drama Single-Handed that was McDonnell's television career break. He starred in all four series of the programme. McDonnell was given the lead role of Garda Sergeant Jack Driscoll after receiving a call from casting director Maureen Hughes. Appearing onstage in The Lieutenant of Inishmore in Galway Town Hall at the time, McDonnell, alongside two other cast members, left for Dublin to read the script for the original Single-Handed director Colm McCarthy. He was given the lead role a day later.

McDonnell appeared in RTÉ's Wild Decembers,MI5 thriller Spooks on BBC One, crime thriller Silent Witness also on BBC One, and the first two series of sitcom Mount Pleasant on Sky1.

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