Colm Meaney
Department: Acting
Biography
Colm J. Meaney (born May 30, 1953) is an Irish actor. He is widely known for playing Chief 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
Die Hard 2
1990
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
2003
The Ballad of Davy Crockett
2024
Con Air
1997
Renegade
2004
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
1995
The Road to Wellville
1994
Layer Cake
2004
Monument Ave.
1998
Law Abiding Citizen
2009
Far and Away
1992
The Damned United
2009
Five Fingers
2006
The Van
1996
The Commitments
1991
This Is My Father
1999
Bring Them Down
2025
No Way Up
2024
Get Him to the Greek
2010
The Snapper
1993
The Gambler: The Legend Continues
1987
Marlowe
2023
Caved In: Prehistoric Terror
2006
Unnatural Causes
2008
The Conspirator
2011
Three and Out
2008
Mystery, Alaska
1999
The Last of the High Kings
1996
Intermission
2003
Claire Dolan
1998
King of Texas
2002
Omega Syndrome
1986
Kings
2007
The Dead
1987
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior
1995
Save the Cinema
2022
Bad Apple
2004
A Lobster Tale
2006
Alleged
2010
Journey's End - The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation
1994
The Legend of the Happy Worker
2025
The Problem with People
2024
Battle of the Brave
2004
Backflash
2002
Parked
2010
Bel Ami
2012
The Perfect Stranger
2011
The Hot Potato
2011
How Harry Became a Tree
2002
Soldiers of Fortune
2012
Whole Lotta Sole
2011
The Race
2009
Free Birds
2013
One Chance
2013
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
2013
Owd Bob
1998
A Belfast Story
2013
Chapter Zero
1999
Pelé: Birth of a Legend
2016
Random Passage
2002
Under Siege
1992
Easter 2016
1982
Four Days
1999
Duchess
2024
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
2023
Money Kings
1998
The Yank
2014
There's Always Hope
2023
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes
1993
Three Day Millionaire
2022
Norm of the North
2016
Nailed
1981
October 22
1998
The New Explorers: The Science of Star Trek
1995
The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations
1996
A Dangerous Arrangement
2015
Re-Creation
2025
The Journey
2017
The Secrets of Emily Blair
2016
The Cold Light of Day
2012
I Am Your Father
2015
War of the Buttons
1994
Halal Daddy
2017
Perfect Witness
1989
National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
2018
Tolkien
2019
Seberg
2019
Dick Tracy
1990
Into the West
1992
Pelé: Birth of a Legend
2016
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
2018
The Banker
2020
The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying
2004
The Murdoch Mysteries: Poor Tom Is Cold
2004
The Last Right
2019
Turning Green
2005
Pixie
2020
The Flight of the Swan
2011
The Devil's Hand
2014
The Last of the Mohicans
1992
Deep Space Nine: Ending an Era
2003
Unwelcome
2023
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds
2013
Come See the Paradise
1990
Confession
2022
The Monkey
2021
Remarkably Bright Creatures
2026
Shelter Me
—
Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
1996
Muide Éire
2011
The Panic
—
Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things...
2014
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes
—
The Simpsons
1989
Hell on Wheels
2011
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
Gargoyles
1994
Men in Trees
2006
The Unit
2006
MacGyver
1985
Tales from the Darkside
1984
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
1993
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
ZOS: Zone of Separation
2009
Mercy
2009
Brooklyn Bridge
1991
The Murdoch Mysteries
2004
Law & Order
1990
Alice
2009
Stargate Atlantis
2004
The Driver
2014
Back to Barrytown
2021
Fúria
2021
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
1999
Will
2017
Covert One: The Hades Factor
2006
Childhood's End
2015
Moonlighting
1985
The Santa Stories
2023
Gangs of London
2020
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
2005
The Serpent Queen
2022
The Singapore Grip
2020
Random Passage
2002
The Late Late Show
1962
The Cowboy
2016
Safe Harbor
2025
Scary Tales of New York
2023
Scarlett
1994
Strangers
1978