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Site Update 1.17.10

Congratulations to Stephen Rea for being nominated for Actor in a Lead Role – Film for Nothing Personal

The 7th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards will take place in Dublin on February 20, 2010.

Ages of the Moon will run from January 9 through March 7, 2010, with an official opening on January 27, 2010 at Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company in New York City. Tickets on sale now.

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Ages of the Moon premiered at the Abbey Theatre's Peacock Theatre, Dublin Ireland. Previews began February 24, 2009 with official premiere on March 3, running through April 4. The play returned to the Abbey Theatre November 13 to November 28, 2009.

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ONDINE

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Ondine is scheduled to be released first through Magnolia’s Ultra VOD pipeline, Summer 2010. Its theatrical release will follow.

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Neil Jordan's latest film, Ondine premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

6/9/08 Stephen Rea will appear in Neil Jordan's new film Ondine. The film will also star Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda. The story is about a fisherman (Farrell) in southwest Ireland who manages to catch a live girl in his nets. As the girl begins to transform the lives of everyone in the town, her real identity is questioned. Could she actually be a mythological sea nymph (Ondine) or is she really just another painted lady?
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Stephen Rea will play the priest, filmed in Cork, August 2008

NOTHING PERSONAL

Coming Soon to the Berlin Film Festival

The new film Nothing Personal starring Stephen Rea and Lotte Verbeek, written & directed by Urszula Antoniak, has been shown at numerous film festivals and has garnered critical praise and awards.

Nothing Personal was honored with as many as six awards at the 62nd Locarno Film Festival, including the Leopard for Best First Feature, the First Prize of the Youth Jury, the FIPRESCI Prize, the CICAE Price of the International Art & Essay Cinema Confederation and a special mention of the Ecumenical Jury.

Other awards include:

The Silver Giraldillo at the Seville Film Festival in Spain.

The ASECAN Award, the prize of the Andalusia Film Critics.

Also won four Golden Calves at the Netherlands Film Festival Utrecht (Best Long Feature, Best Director, Best Camera and Best Sound Design).

Review: The Hollywood Reporter

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November, 2009

According to Variety, Stephen Rea will start shooting the film, Blackthorn in Spain in March 2010. The film, a new twist on an old legend, finds Butch Cassidy alive and well, years after he was supposedly gunned down by Bolivian authorities. Sam Shepard will play the retired Cassidy, while Rea takes on the role of the railroad investigator who has tracked Cassidy for years. The film also stars Eduardo Noriega and is directed by Mateo Gil.

10/31/09
The filming of Stella Days is said to begin soon in Ireland. The film stars Martin Sheen, Stephen Rea and Romola Garai.

Images from on Law & Order SVU, premiering October 7, 2009 on NBC.

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Stephen Rea's latest films:


As Tom in Stuck (2007) Rigel Entertainment	As Anawalt in The Heavy (2008) Parkland Pictures	As M. Palmer in Espion(s) (2009)

August 2009
Father & Son a success on RTE

June 2009
The first episode of Father & Son will be screened on
RTE One, Monday, June 29, at 9.30pm.
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IFTN

October 2008
Stephen Rea will star in a four part television series titled: Father & Son. The cast includes actor Dougray Scott (Desperate Housewives, Mission Impossible II), Sophie Okonedo (Dirty Pretty Things, Hotel Rwanda, The Secret Life of Bees) and Ian Hart (Michael Collins, The Butcher Boy, The End of the Affair, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Finding Neverland and Breakfast on Pluto).
The series is being shot in Dublin and Manchester.

Now on DVD in UK

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October 2008

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Stuck is now available on DVD and Blu-ray

May 2007

According to Screen Daily, Stephen Rea will star with Daniel Bruhl and Anna Paquin in the screen adaptation of
Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis. Written and directed by Limor Diamant
(who also worked with Stephen Rea on The Musketeer, FearDotcom and Until Death). No further info available on this film at this time.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Please be cautious of people online claiming to be Stephen Rea on the various networking sites like Myspace, etc. or various message boards, etc.
Be wary, most likely these sites are run by someone pretending to be Stephen Rea.