Karl Shiels

Karl Shiels

Birth : 1971-09-25, Dublin, Ireland

Death : 2019-07-15

History

Karl Shiels (15 September 1971 – 15 July 2019) was an Irish actor of both stage and screen. His stage roles included Henry IV, Part 1, Penelope, At Swim-Two-Birds, The Spanish Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, The Shadow of a Gunman and This Lime Tree Bower. His screen roles included Fair City, Peaky Blinders and Batman Begins.

Profile

Karl Shiels

Movies

Noble
Driver
Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
Davin
Damo
An ensemble of mourners travel in their cars to the funeral of an Irishman who took his life in a car.
The Hard Way
Brendan
A troubled teenage girl and an unhappily married man meet in secret. They both have something to escape from. Now they need to find out if there is somewhere to escape to. And whether they have what it takes to make the leap.
Shadow Dancer
Mulville's Driver / Gunman
Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
Haywire
Goatee
A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.
W.C.
Rodney
Set in and around the male and female toilets of a Dublin jazz bar. A drama concerning the trials and tribulations of two lowly paid toilet attendants and the people they serve.
Eden
Breffni Grehan (as Karl Shiels)
A married couple's relationship begins to fall apart as their 10th wedding anniversary approaches.
Batman Begins
Arkham Thug #3
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
Intermission
Wayne
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
Veronica Guerin
Gilligan Gang Member #1
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.