Sean Boru

Sean Boru (born Desmond Patrick Bruen; 20 March 1953 in Dublin, Ireland – 14 February 2011 in Essex, England) was an Irish actor and author.

Boru was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer (Hodgkins Lymphoma) in 1998, 2000 and 2002. He received radiotherapy the first 2 times, then chemotherapy. He filmed the second and third treatments with the intention to help other patients and their relatives to understand the procedures.

During his 3rd treatment Boru wrote his autobiography as a private project for his children and grandchildren. His book No Sense of Tumour (June 2004) was published by Trafford Publishing. This led to him writing Careful what you wish For (2006), the biography of Michael Carroll, a 2002 British National Lottery winner of £9.7m. The book was issued by John Blake Publishing in October 2006 and, unusually for an autobiography of this type, it features many references to its ghost writer.

In 2005 Boru wrote a stage show called And over here on the left which is a one man show in which he played the character of a tour guide. Turning the theatre into the bus, he used a mix of film, still pictures, and 3D images, projected onto the stage and a screen, for the audience to focus on.

Sean Boru went to Hollywood in 2006 to film a contribution, as a biographer, to a documentary made by the E!Entertainment channel, about Michael Carroll, as part of the E! True Hollywood Story series on lottery winners. In the film Jack Said (2009) Boru had a small part. Pete Doherty asked him to ghost write his autobiography in early 2009; after months of negotiations Boru declined the offer on the grounds that the model Kate Moss was concerned about her private life being exposed. After many emails from her lawyers, and talks with mutual friends of Moss, Boru made the decision to not proceed.

Boru has appeared on Irish and English TV shows talking about his relationship with former alleged Irish bank-robber Gerard Hutch; Boru had regular meetings with Hutch when he was in Dublin. In 2009 he was asked by film director Liam Galvin to play a part in the film Killer Bitch. Boru plays a porn film maker who gets murdered by former football bad boy Jason Marriner.