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Cilléin Mc Evoy is a Dublin based actor. After a degree in Film & Media from QMU Edinburgh, he began training with Kathleen Warner Yeates on her Advanced Acting Course in 2014. Influenced by the methods of Stanislavski and Chekhov he has been working for the screen and stage since. Further training includes Louise Kiely’s Intensive Screen Acting and Casting Course, Theatre Lovett’s Actor Training Course as well as workshops by screen and stage practitioners such as Sue Mythen, Vladimir Bouchler, Cathy Brady and Paul Brennan. Cilléin played the lead character in the award winning Irish Indie Feature Film The New Music, which screened in several countries and is distributed by Silver Mountain Distribution. Among his most successful short film work, Acheron won and was nominated for awards in Ireland and abroad and Capture was a finalist on BBC Three’s The Fear in 2015. Cilléin performed as lead actor twice at the Galway Fringe Festival and on stage in Dublin with Firedoor Theatre, Parnassus Arts Group and other theatre companies. His voice work includes performing poetry and short stories for an online audience through his curated YouTube channel. He recently took part in the 2025 edition of Scene & Heard with One Giant Leap Present: Show Jumps - An Afternoon of New Writing in the Smock Alley Main Space. He is set to play the lead character in the upcoming feature film 11 Ragman Street.