Ciarán Fitzgerald

'Ciarán Fitzgerald' (qv) was born in Dublin, Ireland, on 27 July, 1983. He is best known as a child actor. He made his film debut as a nine year old in the Irish film _Into the West (1992)_ (qv), directed by Mike Newell, in which he played one of the two lead characters. In this, his first film, his co-stars included such greats of Irish acting as 'Gabriel Byrne' (qv), 'David Kelly' (qv), 'Colm Meaney' (qv) and 'Brendan Gleeson' (qv). Together with co-star 'Rúaidhrí Conroy' (qv), he won the Young Actor Award of 1994 as Outstanding Youth Actor in a Family Foreign Film for this performance. During the 1990s, 'Ciarán Fitzgerald' (qv) appeared in numerous, mostly Irish, films and TV productions including _The General (1998)_ (qv) and _The Boxer (1997)_ (qv).::tim