Barry Keoghan

Biography

Barry Keoghan (born 18 October 1992) is an Irish actor. He has appeared in the films Dunkirk; The Killing of a Sacred Deer, for which he won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male; and Calm with Horses, for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and the RTÉ drama Love/Hate. He also played Druig in Eternals and the Joker in The Batman.

CritifyHub Reviews Featuring Barry Keoghan

Shadows of Sacrifice: The Chilling Precision of ’The Killing of a Sacred Deer’

on The Killing of a Sacred Deer | Aug 18, 2025

What happens when a surgeon’s sterile world collides with a curse that feels biblical yet unnervingly modern? Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) dares to ask, delivering a psycholog... Read more

Tangled Bonds and Tarnished Mirrors: The Seductive Decay of Saltburn

on Saltburn | Jul 14, 2025

Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn (2023) is a mesmerizing descent into privilege and obsession, a film that wields its opulence like a blade, cutting through the veneer of class to expose its grotesque under... Read more

A Hallucinatory Pilgrimage Through the Fog of Legend

on The Green Knight | Jun 15, 2025

David Lowery’s The Green Knight is not so much an adaptation of the 14th-century poem as it is an alchemical transformation turning Arthurian myth into a haunting meditation on mortality, masculinity,... Read more

A Darkly Comic Ode to Friendship’s End

on The Banshees of Inisherin | Jun 07, 2025

Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin is a masterclass in tragicomedy, blending the writer-director’s signature wit with a profound meditation on loneliness, legacy, and the quiet desperation of... Read more