---
name: "Dan Beirne"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dan-beirne"
fi1m_id: "dan-beirne"
imdb_id: "nm1222461"
tmdb_id: 1166834
wikidata_id: "Q81422481"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "12 August 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-23T20:58:14.719223+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."
---

# Dan Beirne

## Identity

Dan Beirne

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dan-beirne
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dan-beirne
- **IMDb ID:** nm1222461
- **TMDB ID:** 1166834
- **Wikidata ID:** Q81422481
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Beirne, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81422481, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1222461/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1166834

Actor. Born 12 August 1982 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 August 1982, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- **Active:** 2017–present
- **Also known as:** Daniel Beirne 
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 75 (1), 2020s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Beirne, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81422481, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1222461/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1166834

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Priscilla*](https://film.one/film/priscilla.md) (74)

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

## Biography

Dan Beirne is a Canadian actor. Born on 12 August 1982 in Ottawa, Ontario, he has appeared in numerous film and television productions since the mid-2000s.

He is best known for his performance as William Lyon Mackenzie King in the 2019 film *The Twentieth Century*, for which he received the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in a Canadian Film and a nomination for Best Actor at the Canadian Screen Awards. His other film credits include *Priscilla* (2023) as Joe, *I Like Movies* (2022), *Awake* (2021) and *On the Road* (2012). Television roles include Sonny Greer in *Fargo* (2014), Nick in *Ginny & Georgia* (2021) and appearances in *The Handmaid's Tale* (2017) and *Gen V* (2023).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Priscilla* (2023), Fi1m 74, as Joe — [page](https://film.one/film/priscilla.md)
- *The Handmaid's Tale* (2017), Fi1m 75, as Barista — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-handmaids-tale.md)

## Complete filmography (60)

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

- *Fivehead* (2026), as Seth
- *Summer War* (2026), as Udo Berger
- *Ready or Not: Here I Come* (2026), as Kip Danforth
- *Sheriff Country* (2025), series, as Brad Elkins
- *The Institute* (2025), series, as Drew Reynolds
- *Paying for It* (2025), as Chester Brown
- *Drive Back Home* (2024), as Father Carr
- *I Used to Be Funny* (2024), as Tim
- *Late Bloomer* (2024), series, as Wes
- *One More Time* (2024), series, as Wayne
- *Priscilla* (2023), as Joe — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/priscilla.md)
- *Gen V* (2023), series, as Social Media Jeff
- *Twisted Metal* (2023), series, as Jeremy
- *I Like Movies* (2023), as Owen
- *Red Iron Road* (2023), series, as Marquise D'Urfe
- *Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities* (2022), series, as Deputy Davis
- *High School* (2022), series, as Mr. Gardner
- *Maybe You Should Be Careful* (2021), as Alistair
- *Ghosts* (2021), series, as Reginald
- *Awake* (2021), as Gregg
- *Ginny & Georgia* (2021), series, as Nick
- *Loose Ends* (2020), as Peter
- *The Women's Hour* (2020), as Peter
- *Transplant* (2020), series, as Ezra & Liam
- *Bit Playas* (2019), series, as Casting Director #2
- *The Twentieth Century* (2019), as Mackenzie King
- *The Moodys* (2019), series, as Dustin Lundgren
- *White Lie* (2019), as Sam Blumenthal
- *Romance Language* (2019), as Ryan
- *Hudson & Rex* (2019), series, as Griffin Birch
- *American Hangman* (2019), as Tom
- *Titans* (2018), series, as Jacob Finlay
- *The Dark* (2018), as Officer Stevens
- *Keep Coming Back!* (2018), as Dale
- *Carter* (2018), series, as Adam
- *The Guest Book* (2017), series, as Tommy
- *The Bold Type* (2017), series, as Toby
- *The Handmaid's Tale* (2017), series, as Barista — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-handmaids-tale.md)
- *Great Great Great* (2017), as Tom
- *Suck It Up* (2017), as Granville
- *Workin' Moms* (2017), series, as Gary Goldman
- *Jeremy and Margot Make a Baby* (2016), Director
- *Letterkenny* (2016), series, as Ben Harris
- *We Were Wolves* (2014), as Paul
- *Fargo* (2014), series, as Sonny Greer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/fargo-2014.md)
- *Three Night Stand* (2014), as Aaron Berg
- *Roland* (2013), as Roland
- *The Good Escape* (2013), as Lunky Man
- *Willed to Kill* (2013), as Detective Mason
- *Sorry, Rabbi* (2012), as Yossul
- *Beat Down* (2012), as Henry
- *On the Road* (2012), as Newlywed Man
- *I Heart Doomsday* (2011), as Dr. Maximillian Von Max
- *The Future Is Now!* (2011), as Young Man
- *Perfect Plan* (2010), as Evan
- *Catfish* (2010), Thanks
- *The Trotsky* (2010), as Dan
- *Peepers* (2010), as Stu
- *The Bitter End* (2009), series, as Bernard Price · Writer
- *Colourbars* (2006), as Green Colourbar

## Gallery

- ![Andrea Werhun, Dan Beirne, Sook-Yin Lee, and Emily Lê at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Paying for It](https://film.one/media/person/12210/gallery-723e2525ad54.jpg) Andrea Werhun, Dan Beirne, Sook-Yin Lee, and Emily Lê at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Paying for It — Jennifer 8. Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Andrea_Werhun%2C_Dan_Beirne%2C_Sook-Yin_Lee%2C_and_Emily_L%C3%AA_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_01.jpg/1280px-Andrea_Werhun%2C_Dan_Beirne%2C_Sook-Yin_Lee%2C_and_Emily_L%C3%AA_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Andrea Werhun, Dan Beirne, Sook-Yin Lee, and Emily Lê at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie](https://film.one/media/person/12210/gallery-4e1b3554372b.jpg) Andrea Werhun, Dan Beirne, Sook-Yin Lee, and Emily Lê at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie — Jennifer 8. Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Andrea_Werhun%2C_Dan_Beirne%2C_Sook-Yin_Lee%2C_and_Emily_L%C3%AA_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_02.jpg/1280px-Andrea_Werhun%2C_Dan_Beirne%2C_Sook-Yin_Lee%2C_and_Emily_L%C3%AA_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dan Beirne, actor, at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Paying For It.](https://film.one/media/person/12210/gallery-845e2b5dba04.jpg) Dan Beirne, actor, at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Paying For It. — Jennifer 8. Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Dan_Beirne_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_01.jpg/1280px-Dan_Beirne_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dan Beirne](https://film.one/media/person/12210/gallery-6ffe1c92ad90.jpg) Dan Beirne — Jennifer 8. Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Dan_Beirne_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_02.jpg/1280px-Dan_Beirne_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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