DAMIEN MOLONY IN 2015: ON TV AND THE BIG SCREEN!

At the beginning of the year we declared 2015 'Year Of The DaMo', due to all the exciting new projects Damien is appearing in this year. And we were not wrong! The first half of the year has already seen Damien in myriad exciting things on the stage, TV and and the radio.

2015 SO FAR..

January: Appearing as DS Jack Weston in Suspects Series 3 on Channel 5 (UK)

January - May: Playing Spike in a 5 month run of The Hard Problem at the National Theatre, including worldwide cinema screenings with NT Live

February: Actor reader on BBC Radio 4 's Poetry Please - 'Bubble and Squeak'

March: Actor reader on BBC Radio 4 series celebrating new Irish writing, reading short story 'Me and The Devil'.

April - July:  Appearing as DS Jack Weston in Suspects Series 1, 2 and 3 on Channel 7 (Australia)

June: Actor reader on BBC Radio 4 's Poetry Please - 'Bloomsday' and 'June Miscellany' reading a total of 16 poems!) 

 The year so far has already been filled with Damo goodness a plenty, but there is still much, much more to come!

STILL TO COME IN 2015 / 2016!

Suspects Series 4

(TV Series, Channel 5, summer 2015 airdate tba)

Damien will be back on TV screens soon as DS Jack Weston alongside Fay Ripley (DI Martha Bellamy) and Clare-Hope Ashitey (DC Charlie Steele) in Suspects Series 4, which was announced for summer 2015 in the UK, at the end of Series 3 on Channel 5.  An airdate is yet to be confirmed, but the new series is imminent and is also airing soon in Australia. Series 5 is also rumoured, after it recently appeared on the Suspects IMDb page.

Click here for what we know about Suspects Series 4 so far

Kill Your Friends

(Feature film, release date 6 November UK)

Damien is soon appearing in feature film  Kill Your Friends, a no-holds-barred fictional exposé dark satirical comedy based on the music industry at the height of the Britpop era in the nineties.

The film was originally set for a March 2015 release date, which changed to September and has now finally been confirmed for 6 November in the UK and Ireland. The movie has also been picked up by Ascot Elite for German speaking Europe and acquired by Well Go Entertainment for US release in 2016 (date tba).

Prior to its theatrical release, the KYF world premiere is coming in just a few days on 5 August at Fantasy Filmfest in Berlin and a special film event is also taking place at Festival No.6 in Portmeirion (Wales) 6 September.

Damien is playing Ross in the film, a marketing manager at the A&R company where the main action takes place, alongside Nicholas Hoult as main protagonist Steven Stelfox and a stellar cast including Georgia King, Roseanna Arquette, James Corden, Craig Roberts, Tom Riley and Joseph Mawle.

Click here for 5 things we know about the film so far

Clean Break

(TV Series, RTÉ, rumoured October 2015)

Damien will be appearing as Danny Dempsey in new 4 part irish drama Clean Break on RTÉ later this year, airdate tba. The drama “tells the tale of a community driven by love, greed, status and revenge.” Cast includes Adam Fergus, Aidan McArdle, Simone Kirby, Kelly Thornton, Amybeth McNulty, Ned Dennehy, and Dermot Murphy.

Written by Billy Roche (The Eclipse), with two BAFTA-nominated/winning directors, Gillies McKinnon (Behind the Lines) and Damien O’Donnell (East is East), Clean Break promises to be a high quality drama.

Filming completed December 2014, and is rumoured to air on RTÉ in October 2015.

Tiger Raid

(Feature film, release date tba)

Damien is soon appearing in feature film Tiger Raid, a dark and intense thriller set in Iraq produced by Story Film. The film completed post production in June and is set for a premiere at a film festival this summer. Damien recently attended a private preview screening, describing the movie as "awesome" and sharing film teasers.

He plays the character Paddy in the feature, alongside Brian Gleeson as Joe, two mercenaries who “ride a wave of pitch black camaraderie as they travel through the desert night to carry out a kidnapping in Iraq".  Sofia Boutella also stars (as Shadha).

Earlier in the year Story Film shared first official promo images and an exclusive glimpse of Damien in the film. A theatrical release date is yet to be announced.

Click here for 10 things we know about the film so far

The Devil You Know

(TV Pilot, HBO)

Damien was announced as cast in drama pilot The Devil You Know in March, filming his role in Boston USA during a haitus in the 5 month run of The Hard Problem at the National Theatre. 

The drama has a formidable writing / directing creative combo in Jenji Kohan and Gus Van Sant and is based on the historical Salem Witch trials in 17th century New England. Damien is playing Robert Putnam, son to conservative puritan Thomas (played by Eddie Izzard) and joins an incredible cast also including Karen Gillan and Kate Nash (pictured above), Nadia Alexander, Ismenia Mendes, Ever Carradine, Julian Rhind Tutt, Matthew James Thomas, Nigel Lindsay, Ewen Bremner, James Marsters, Hannah Nordberg, Naian Gonzalez Norvind and Zawe Ashton.

A recent script preview from Season Zero revealed 'wild and provocative' pilot details and provided exciting new info on the content and tone  of the drama. The Devil You Know is not yet ordered to series, but with such a quality cast and creative team we're hopeful of at least seeing the pilot on TV screens by the end of 2015.

NOT FORGETTING...

Damien can still be seen in The Hard Problem in NT Live encore screenings in US, NZ and Dominican Republic! More info here

*** NEWS!!! ***

At the Clean Break RTÉ launch Thursday 13 August, Damien said he is about to start filming for a comedy drama on E4! More info here

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