Paudge Behan
Paudge Rodger Behan ( /ˈpɔːdʒ ˈrɒdʒər ˈbiːən/ PAWJ ROJ-ər-BEE-ən; born January 1965) is an Irish actor and writer. The son of IRA Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding and Beatrice ffrench-Salkeld, the widow of playwright Brendan Behan, Paudge Behan worked briefly as a journalist for a Dublin newspaper before turning to acting. After a series of minor film and television roles in the 1990s, he was handpicked by English novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford to appear as the male lead in a 1999 dramatization of her book A Secret Affair (1996).
Behan has also appeared in the feature films A Man of No Importance (1994), Conspiracy of Silence (2003) and Veronica Guerin (2003), and has taken leading roles in two short films, A Lonely Sky (2006) and Wake Up (2007).
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“Pat: He was an Anglo-Irishman.
Meg: In the blessed name of God, whats that?
Pat: A Protestant with a horse.”
—Brendan Behan (19231964)