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Martin "Marty" McCann (born 20 July 1983) is an actor from Northern Ireland. McCann born to Anne McCann, he grew up with a brother and sister in the working-class Divis Flats area of Falls Road in Belfast. He credits his mother with helping him with his success. She pushed him to act and also got him into YouthAction NI's Rainbow Factory, a cross-community drama troop for Catholic and Protestant children and also got to spend time in the United States in the summer as part of an exchange program. His mother found a role for him by checking the local newspapers, and he soon won the stage... MORE

Martin "Marty" McCann (born 20 July 1983) is an actor from Northern Ireland. McCann born to Anne McCann, he grew up with a brother and sister in the working-class Divis Flats area of Falls Road in Belfast. He credits his mother with helping him with his success. She pushed him to act and also got him into YouthAction NI's Rainbow Factory, a cross-community drama troop for Catholic and Protestant children and also got to spend time in the United States in the summer as part of an exchange program. His mother found a role for him by checking the local newspapers, and he soon won the stage production part of the Artful Dodger in Oliver Twist. He also got leads in the productions of Bugsy Malone and The Crucible. Popular in Northern Ireland for various sketches (including the trendy priest) in the Northern Ireland television comedy series Dry Your Eyes. He had a feature role in a short film by Simon Fitzmaurice called The Sound of People. He followed that up with his feature film debut (as Jimmy Riley) in the romantic drama Closing the Ring (2007) directed by Richard Attenborough. Attenborough cast McCann in the film after seeing him in a stage production of A Clockwork Orange. He also LESS