---
name: "Breffni McKenna"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/breffni-mckenna"
fi1m_id: "breffni-mckenna"
imdb_id: "nm0571337"
tmdb_id: 1393548
wikidata_id: "Q113551923"
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T11:38:36.752834+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Breffni McKenna

## Identity

Breffni McKenna

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/breffni-mckenna
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** breffni-mckenna
- **IMDb ID:** nm0571337
- **TMDB ID:** 1393548
- **Wikidata ID:** Q113551923
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113551923, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0571337/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1393548

Actor.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Active:** 1987–1992
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 83 (1), 1990s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113551923, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0571337/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1393548

## Biography

Breffni McKenna is an actor whose screen credits include *The Crying Game* (1992) as Tinker, *Maurice* (1987) as a Guardsman, *Leap Year* (2010) as Tommo, *Perrier's Bounty* (2010) as Dinny, and *Puckoon* (2002) as Webster.

He has appeared in television series such as *Relic Hunter* (2001) as Constable Dragomir Lagosh, *Casualty* (1986) as Richard Lord, and *Holby City* (2005) as Moylan. McKenna is the son of actor T.P. McKenna. He provided the voice of Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams during the period when Adams's own voice was banned from broadcast on television and radio in the United Kingdom.

*Sources: imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Crying Game* (1992), Fi1m 82, as Tinker — [page](https://film.one/film/the-crying-game.md)
- *Maurice* (1987), Fi1m 83, as Guardsman — [page](https://film.one/film/maurice.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Perrier's Bounty* (2010), as Dinny
- *Leap Year* (2010), as Tommo
- *Round Ireland with a Fridge* (2010), as Peter
- *Surviving Disaster* (2006), series, Actor
- *Puckoon* (2002), as Webster
- *Urban Gothic* (2000), series, as Gershwin
- *Relic Hunter* (1999), series, as Constable Dragomir Lagosh
- *Daylight Robbery* (1999), series, as Elliott Garrett
- *Vicious Circle* (1999), as Clive
- *Titanic Town* (1998), as Paramedic
- *Lady Chatterley* (1993), series, as Donald Forbes
- *Peak Practice* (1993), series, as Patrick Connor
- *The Crying Game* (1992), as Tinker — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-crying-game.md)
- *Heartbeat* (1992), series, as DC Jack Langford
- *Murder in Eden* (1991), series, as Eamonn Eales
- *The Love She Sought* (1990), as Junior Buckingham
- *Shoot to Kill* (1990), as Martin McCauley
- *Birds of a Feather* (1989), series, as Patsy Edwards
- *Chinese Whispers* (1989), as Declan
- *South of the Border* (1988), series, as Harry
- *Troubles* (1988), series, as Ripon Spencer
- *Maurice* (1987), as Guardsman — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/maurice.md)
- *Casualty* (1986), series, as Richard Lord — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)
- *The Cry* (1984), as Michael Ferguson
- *The Witches and the Grinnygog* (1983), as Dappy Harold
- *The Witches and the Grinnygog* (1983), series, as Dappy Harold

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