---
name: "Ciaran Flynn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ciaran-flynn"
fi1m_id: "ciaran-flynn"
imdb_id: "nm2192867"
tmdb_id: 556444
wikidata_id: "Q111634109"
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-02T23:13:35.050811+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."
---

# Ciaran Flynn

## Identity

Ciaran Flynn

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ciaran-flynn
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ciaran-flynn
- **IMDb ID:** nm2192867
- **TMDB ID:** 556444
- **Wikidata ID:** Q111634109
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111634109, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2192867/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/556444

Actor. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Active:** 2008–present
- **Also known as:**  Ciaran Francis Flynn 
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 86 (1), 2010s 80 (2), 2020s 82 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 82 to 80 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Comedy 1, Crime 1, History 1, Science Fiction 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $3m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111634109, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2192867/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/556444

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*The Survivalist*](https://film.one/film/the-survivalist.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Ciaran Flynn is a Northern Irish actor from Belfast. He began his acting career at the Rainbow Factory School of Performing Arts aged nine, appearing in productions including *Rent* and *Whistle Down the Wind*. His first lead film role came at age eleven as Seamus in *48 Angels* (2007).

He played the young Bobby Sands in *Hunger* (2008) and Loop in *Robin Hood* (2010). Other credits include the Watchman in *The Survivalist* (2015), Father John in *The Devil's Doorway* (2018), a role in *Derry Girls* (2018) and Eamonn McSweeney in *Blue Lights* (2023).

*Sources: imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com, premierartistsni.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Blue Lights* (2023), Fi1m 82, as Eamonn McSweeney — [page](https://film.one/tv/blue-lights.md)
- *Derry Girls* (2018), Fi1m 83, as Ukranian Lad 2 — [page](https://film.one/tv/derry-girls.md)
- *The Survivalist* (2015), Fi1m 77, as Watchman — [page](https://film.one/film/the-survivalist.md)
- *Hunger* (2008), Fi1m 86, as 12 Year Old Bobby — [page](https://film.one/film/hunger.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *Nostalgie* (2025), as Young Drew
- *Blue Lights* (2023), series, as Eamonn McSweeney — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/blue-lights.md)
- *Nightride* (2022), as Scholar
- *The Appointment* (2019), as Ian
- *Death and Nightingales* (2018), series, as Gerry Boyle
- *The Devil's Doorway* (2018), as Father John Thornton
- *Derry Girls* (2018), series, as Ukranian Lad 2 — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/derry-girls.md)
- *The Boring Diary of Frances Noone* (2016), as Kevin Gallen
- *The Truth Commissioner* (2016), as Conor Walshe
- *The Survivalist* (2015), as Watchman — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/the-survivalist.md)
- *Insulin* (2015), as The Trader
- *Robin Hood* (2010), as Loop
- *The Race* (2009), as Roy
- *Hunger* (2008), as 12 Year Old Bobby — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/hunger.md)
- *48 Angels* (2006), as Seamus

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