Biography
Ryan McParland is an Irish actor from Northern Ireland. He began performing in youth theatre and made his professional stage debut in Belfast. In 2014 he was nominated for Best Actor at the Irish Times Theatre Awards for his role in David Ireland’s Summertime at the MAC.
His screen credits include the raider in The Survivalist (2015), a lackey in Tale of Tales (2015), Fangs in Good Vibrations (2012), Jonjo in Derry Girls (2018), Needles in Calm with Horses (2020), Dr Adun Saly in Halo (2022), and roles in Bad Day for the Cut (2017) and The Gentlemen (2024). Recent work includes Chaïm Soutine in Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness (2024) and appearances in Say Nothing (2024) and the forthcoming How to Get to Heaven from Belfast (2026).
