Dylan William Moran (born November 3, 1971) is an Irish comedian, writer, actor, and artist. He is best known for his observational comedy, and starring in the comedy series How Do You Want Me? (1998-1999), with Charlotte Coleman, Frank Finlay, Diana Fairfax, Emma Chambers, Peter Serafinowicz, Simon Bateson, Mark Heap, Clive Morrison, and Geraldine McNulty; Black Books (2000-2004; which he co-wrote), with Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig; and Stuck (2022; also created and wrote), with Morgana Robinson, Juliet Cowan, Clemens Schick, and Neil Maskell.
He made his film debut in Roger Michell’s Notting Hill (1999), with Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Rhys Ifans, Emma Chambers, Tim McInnerny, Gina McKee, and Hugh Bonneville. Other notable films include The Actors (2003), with Michael Caine, Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson and Lena Headey; Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead (2004), with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Bill Nighy, and Penelope Wilton; Michael Winterbottom’s A Cock and Bull Story (2005), with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Jeremy Northam, Naomie Harris, Kelly Macdonald, James Fleet, Ian Hart, and Gillian Anderson; David Schwimmer’s Run Fatboy Run (2007), with Pegg, Thandiwe Newton, Harish Patel, India de Beaufort and Hank Azaria; A Film with Me in It (2008), with Mark Doherty, Amy Huberman, and Keith Allen; The Decoy Bride (2011), with Macdonald, David Tennant, Alice Eve, Michael Urie, Sally Phillips, Maureen Beattie, and Maureen Beattie; Good Vibrations (2012), with Richard Dormer, Jodie Whittaker, Adrian Dunbar, Liam Cunningham, and Karl Johnson; John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary (2014), with Brendan Gleeson, Chris O’Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aidan Gillen, Isaach de Bankolé, M. Emmet Walsh, Marie-Josée Croze, Domhnall Gleeson, David Wilmot, Gary Lydon, Killian Scott, Orla O’Rourke, Owen Sharpe, David McSavage, Mícheál Óg Lane, and Mark O’Halloran; Pixie (2020), with Olivia Cooke, Ben Hardy, Daryl McCormack, Colm Meaney, and Alec Baldwin; and The Killer’s Game (2024), with Dave Bautista, Sofia Boutella, Terry Crews, Scott Adkins, Pom Klementieff, and Ben Kingsley.
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(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- Notting Hill (1999) – directed by Roger Michell
- The Actors (2003) – directed by Conor McPherson
- Shaun of the Dead (2004)* – directed by Edgar Wright
- A Cock and Bull Story (2005) – directed by Michael Winterbottom
- Tell It to the Fishes (2006) – directed by William Sinclair – short
- Run Fatboy Run (2007)* – directed by David Schwimmer
- A Film With Me in It (2008) – directed by Ian Fitzgibbon
- The Decoy Bride (2011) – directed by Sheree Folkson
- Good Vibrations (2013) – directed by Lisa Barros D’Sa & Glenn Leyburn
- Calvary (2014) – directed by John Michael McDonagh
- Metal Heart (2018) – directed by Hugh O’Conor
- Pixie (2020) – directed by Barnaby Thompson
- The Killer’s Game (2024) – directed by J.J. Perry
