Colm Meaney

Biography

Colm J. Meaney (born May 30, 1953) is an Irish actor. He is widely known for playing Miles O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He is second only to Michael Dorn in most appearances in Star Trek episodes. He has guest starred on many other television shows, from Law & Order to The Simpsons, and has a significant career in motion pictures.

Known For

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Harold Garrett

The Simpsons

Tom O'Flanagan (voice)

Tales from the Darkside

Constable

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Miles O'Brien

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Shelley Kelly

Law & Order

Wyatt Landon

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Miles O'Brien

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

Jake Slicker

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Bring Them Down	Ray
2025	Re-Creation
2024	The Ballad of Davy Crockett	Caleb
2024	No Way Up	Brandon
2024	The Problem with People	Ciáran
2024	Duchess	Frank Monaghan
2023	Marlowe	Bernie Ohls
2023	In the Land of Saints and Sinners	Robert McQue
2023	There's Always Hope	Jonathan
2023	Unwelcome	Colm “Daddy” Whelan
2022	Save the Cinema	Martyn
2022	Three Day Millionaire	Mr. Barr
2022	Confession	Father Peter
2021	The Monkey	MacDonell
2020	The Banker	Patrick Barker
2020	Pixie	Dermot O'Brien
2019	Tolkien	Father Francis Morgan
2019	Seberg	Frank Ellroy
2019	The Last Right	Detective Donall Crowley
2018	National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Big Daddy
2018	What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Self
2017	The Journey	Martin McGuinness
2017	Halal Daddy	Martin Logan
2016	Pelé: Birth of a Legend	George Raynor
2016	Norm of the North	Grandfather (voice)
2016	The Secrets of Emily Blair	Father Avital
2016	Pelé: Birth of a Legend	Coach George Raynor
2015	A Dangerous Arrangement	Leslie
2015	I Am Your Father	Narrator (voice)
2014	The Yank	Fintan McGuire
2014	The Devil's Hand	Elder Beacon
2013	Free Birds	Myles Standish (voice)
2013	One Chance	Roland Potts
2013	Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa	Patt Farrell
2013	A Belfast Story	Detective
2013	Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds	Chief Miles O'Brien (archive footage)
2012	Bel Ami	Monsieur Rousset
2012	Soldiers of Fortune	Mason
2012	The Cold Light of Day	Bandler
2011	The Conspirator	David Hunter
2011	The Perfect Stranger	Mark O'Reilly
2011	The Hot Potato	Harry
2011	Whole Lotta Sole	Detective Weller
2011	The Flight of the Swan	Giannopoulos
2010	Get Him to the Greek	Jonathan Snow
2010	Alleged	H.L. Mencken
2010	Parked	Fred Daly
2009	Law Abiding Citizen	Detective Dunnigan
2009	The Damned United	Don Revie
2009	The Race	Frank Kensay
2008	Unnatural Causes	Trevor Jones
2008	Three and Out	Tommy Cassidy
2007	Kings	Joe Mullan
2006	Five Fingers	Gavin
2006	Caved In: Prehistoric Terror	Vincent
2006	A Lobster Tale	Cody
2005	Turning Green	Tom
2004	Renegade	Jimmy McClure
2004	Layer Cake	Gene
2004	Bad Apple	Gibbons
2004	Battle of the Brave	Benjamin Franklin
2004	The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying	Inspector Brackenreid
2004	The Murdoch Mysteries: Poor Tom Is Cold	Inspector Brackenreid
2003	The Boys & Girl from County Clare	Jimmy
2003	Intermission	Jerry Lynch
2003	Deep Space Nine: Ending an Era	Himself
2002	King of Texas	Mr. Tumlinson
2002	Backflash	Gin O'Malley
2002	Random Passage	Thomas Hutchings
2001	How Harry Became a Tree	Harry
2001	Intimacy
1999	This Is My Father	Seamus
1999	Mystery, Alaska	Mayor Scott Pitcher
1999	Chapter Zero	Frank Lazaras
1999	Four Days	Fury
1998	Monument Ave.	Jackie O'Hara
1998	Claire Dolan	Roland Cain
1998	Owd Bob	Keith Moore
1998	Money Kings	Al Sheehan
1998	October 22	Steve
1997	Con Air	Agent Duncan Malloy
1996	The Van	Larry
1996	The Last of the High Kings	Jim Davern
1996	The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations	Self
1995	The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain	Morgan the Goat
1995	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior	Miles O'Brien
1995	The New Explorers: The Science of Star Trek	Self
1994	The Road to Wellville	Dr. Lionel Badger
1994	Journey's End - The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation	Self
1994	War of the Buttons	Geronimo's Dad
1994	Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things...	Chief Miles O'Brien
1993	The Snapper	Dessie Curley
1993	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Emissary	Miles O'Brien
1993	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes	Himself
1992	Far and Away	Kelly
1992	Under Siege	Daumer
1992	Into the West	Barreller
1992	The Last of the Mohicans	Major Ambrose
1991	The Commitments	Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.
1991	Star Trek: The Next Generation - Redemption	Miles O'Brien (archive footage)
1990	Die Hard 2	Windsor Plane - Pilot
1990	Dick Tracy	Cop at Tess'
1990	Come See the Paradise	Gerry McGurn
1989	Perfect Witness	Meagher
1987	The Gambler: The Legend Continues	Tinkerer
1987	The Dead	Mr. Bergin
1986	Omega Syndrome	Sean
1982	Easter 2016	Kevin Murphy
1981	Nailed	Younger Protestant
	The Happy Worker
	Remarkably Bright Creatures
	Shelter Me

Year	TV Show	Role
2025	Safe Harbor	Kieran Walsh
2023	The Santa Stories	The No Man/ Bill
2022	The Serpent Queen	Francis I of France
2021	Back to Barrytown	Self / Narrator
2021	Fúria
2020	Gangs of London	Finn Wallace
2020	The Singapore Grip	Major Brendan Archer
2017	Will	James Burbage
2016	The Cowboy	Self
2015	Childhood's End	Wainwright
2014	The Driver	The Horse
2011	Hell on Wheels	Thomas 'Doc' Durant
2009	ZOS: Zone of Separation	George Titac
2009	Mercy
2009	Alice	King of Hearts
2006	Men in Trees
2006	The Unit
2006	Covert One: The Hades Factor	Peter Howell
2005	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	Shelley Kelly
2004	The Murdoch Mysteries	Inspector Brackenreid
2004	Stargate Atlantis	Cowen
2002	Random Passage
2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Harold Garrett
1999	The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns	Seamus Muldoon
1994	Gargoyles	Mr. Dugan (voice)
1994	Scarlett	Father Colum O'Hara
1993	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Miles O'Brien
1993	Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman	Jake Slicker
1991	Brooklyn Bridge
1990	Law & Order	Wyatt Landon
1989	The Simpsons	Tom O'Flanagan (voice)
1987	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Miles O'Brien
1985	MacGyver	Dr. Irwin Malcolm
1985	Moonlighting	Keterina Suitor (as Colm Meany)
1984	Tales from the Darkside	Constable
1962	The Late Late Show	Self