Kevin Trainor
Kevin Trainor is an Irish[1] actor of stage and screen.
Early life
From
Career
Making an early cameo appearance in the 2001 film The Hole while at RADA, he also appeared in the 2005 Royal Shakespeare Company season.
He is notable for portraying the younger version of
Trainor earned critical accolades for his appearance in the special flash-back
Selected Theatre Work
In 2008, Trainor appeared as Moth to
Trainor played Jonesy, a savant with pervasive developmental disorder in the first production of Lost Monsters by Laurence Wilson at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool in 2009.[4]
In 2010, he played Trent Conway in Six Degrees of Separation at the Old Vic, London. In the same year Trainor took a leading role in Jonathan Harvey's new play, Canary, in the Hampstead Theatre and on tour. His character was unrepentant gay man avant la lettre and campaigner, Billy, whose life as portrayed spans the modern period of gay liberation in Great Britain. Billy's initial betrayal at the hands of his closeted lover and, later, that of society in the form of committal for aversion therapy, leads ultimately to the character's imprisonment when he kills his treating doctor in an encounter in a gay bar. Harvey offers this as a reminder to his audience of the numerous hopeless casualties of the struggle for gay rights.[5][6] Trainor himself has spoken of his pride in being centrally involved in such a "campaigning piece".[7]
In 2011, Trainor starred as
Trainor returned to his native Northern Ireland in 2012 to appear in the ensemble play Titanic (Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry 1912) by Owen McCafferty at the new MAC Theatre in Belfast.
In 2013, Trainor starred as
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | The Hole | Boy in School | |
| 2004 | Hellboy | Young Broom | |
| 2005 | The Commander: Blackdog | Alan McKellen | TV movie |
| Titanic: Birth of a Legend | Alfie Cunningham | TV movie | |
| 2006 | The Catherine Tate Show | John | Episode: Mum, I'm Gay |
| Tripping Over | Young Actor | 1 episode | |
| 2008 | John Adams | Charles Adams | Miniseries |
| 2011-2013 | The Café | Keiran Barker | |
| 2012 | Sherlock | Billy | Episode: The Hounds of Baskerville |
| 2013 | Vera | Kit O'Dowd | Episode: Young Gods |
| London Irish | Mark | 1 episode | |
| 2014 | Utopia | Mr. Omida | 1 episode |
| 2016 | Endeavour | Jerome Hogg | Episode: Coda |
References
- ^ "Twitter: KJB Trainor". Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- ^ "Metro - Utopia 2.1 What Did You Miss?". metro.co.uk. 15 July 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
- ^ "Review – Utopia S02E01". www.geeksunleashed.me. Archived from the original on 10 November 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
- ^ "Liverpool Daily Post - Review 'Lost Monsters'". liverpooldailypost.co.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ^ "Matt Trueman - Review 'Canary'". matttrueman.co.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ^ "The Arts Desk - Review 'Canary'". theartsdesk.com. 24 May 2010. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ^ "SoSoGay.co.uk - Interview: Kevin Trainor, January 30, 2011". sosogay.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 December 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ^ "Lloyd Evans, The Spectator - Review 'Playboy of the Western World". thespectator.co.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ^ "Citizens Theatre - What's On: Doctor Faustus". citz.co.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
External links
- Kevin Trainor at IMDb
- Curriculum vitae of Kevin Trainor
