Barry Keoghan
Barry Keoghan – “Dunkirk” Santa Monica Press Conference – The Barker Hangar, 3021 Airport Avenue – Santa Monica, CA, USA, 2017 – photo Credit: Izumi Hasegawa / PRPhotos.com
Place of Birth: Summerhill, Dublin, Ireland
Date of Birth: 18 October, 1992
Ethnicity: Irish
Barry Keoghan is an Irish actor. His roles include the films Between the Canals, Stalker (2012), Stay (2013), ’71, Mammal, Trespass Against Us, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Dunkirk, American Animals, Black ’47, Calm with Horses, The Green Knight, Eternals, The Banshees of Inisherin, and Saltburn, and the series Fair City, Love/Hate, Rebellion, Chernobyl, Top Boy, and Masters of the Air. He is an ambassador for Dior, and for Barretstown, an Irish non-profit camp for children with serious illnesses. He is also an amateur boxer.
Barry has said:
Heroin came into Dublin, and it caught every family. My mother was one of the unlucky ones. She got caught on it, then she passed away… [He and his brother were subsequently raised by their grandmother] She’s a tough one… I’ll come home off a film set where I’m getting pampered, and I’ll get a slap in the head if I don’t make my bed. That’s what I love about her.
His surname is pronounced kee-own.
He has a son with his former partner Alyson Kierans.
He could be Joel Edgerton younger brother.
No to isn’t. It’s pronounced ‘kio Gan’ and I know because it’s. My mother’s surname. And she isn’t Jewish. Neither is Barry.
It’s actually Kee-own. You can hear it pronounced here:
https://youtu.be/n87vqpx7Zrw
I don’t know if you’re Australian, but I’ve heard an Australian man with the same name pronounce it as Kio-gan once.
He should be held up as an example to the numerous American posters here who think only people of Asian descent can have “Asian” eyes.
It’s pronounced Barry Cohen, of course.
No to isn’t. It’s pronounced ‘kio Gan’ and I know because it’s. My mother’s surname. And she isn’t Jewish. Neither is Barry.
It’s pronounced ‘KYO-en’, with the emphasis on the first syllable. A very small minority of Keoghans may have decided, at some point, to differentiate themselves by pronouncing it ‘KYO- gan’, especially if they had emigrated somewhere, like America. But here in Ireland – as is the case with Barry Keoghan – it is generally pronounced ‘KYO-en’