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name: "Mark O'Rowe"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T10:36:08.664242+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."
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# Mark O'Rowe

Writer. Born 1 January 1970 in Dublin, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1970, Dublin, Ireland
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_O%27Rowe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6769089, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1248824/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/77268

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Normal People*](https://film.one/tv/normal-people.md) (84)

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## Biography

Mark O'Rowe is an Irish playwright and screenwriter. Born in Dublin in 1970, he grew up in the Tallaght area of the city.

He is best known for his plays, including *Howie the Rookie* (1999), which won the George Devine Award, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and an Irish Times/ESB Theatre Award. His screenwriting credits include *Intermission* (2003), *Boy A* (2007), *Broken* (2012) and an episode of the series *Normal People* (2020). He also wrote and directed the feature film *The Delinquent Season* (2018) and created the series *Temple* (2019).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Normal People* (2020), Fi1m 84, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/normal-people.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *Ghosts* (2023), Director
- *The Approach* (2021), Writer, Director
- *Normal People* (2020), series, Writer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/normal-people.md)
- *Temple* (2019), series, Writer, Creator
- *Dublin Oldschool* (2018), as Man with Cat
- *The Delinquent Season* (2018), Writer, Director
- *Debris* (2013), Writer, Director
- *Broken* (2012), Screenplay
- *Epithet* (2012), Writer
- *Perrier's Bounty* (2010), Writer
- *Boy A* (2008), Screenplay
- *Intermission* (2003), Writer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year 2012: European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year (nominated), for *Broken*
- Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 1999: Rooney Prize for Irish Literature (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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