People associated with the University of Ulster

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 66. Chapters: Academics of the University of Ulster, Alumni of the University of Ulster, Brian Friel, James Nesbitt, Richard Lynn, Joey Dunlop, Victor Sloan, Don Mullan, Nuala O'Loan, Robert Dunlop, Ralph Henstock, Omid Djalili, Kate Hoey, Michelle Gildernew, Martin O'Hagan, Kevin Cahill, Gareth Roberts, Mark Durkan, Robert Anthony Welch, Gregory Campbell, Stephen Snoddy, Susan Philipsz, Steve Nimmons, James Simmons, Gerald Dawe, Frank McGuinness, David Holmes, Monica McWilliams, Kennedy Lindsay, E. A. Markham, Eileen Bell, Brian Keenan, Alban Maginness, David J. Templeton, List of alumni of the University of Ulster, Cecilia Keaveney, Alex Wood, Brian Manning, Jane Morrice, Darragh Morgan, Charles Franklyn, Robert Coulter, John Dallat, Terri Scott, Patrick Roche, Anne Devlin, Andrew Waterman, George Henry Smyth, Sean Farren, Dominic Bradley, Christine Borland, Brian Ó Domhnaill, Basil McCrea, Willie Doherty, Ralph Grey, Baron Grey of Naunton, Rebecca Ndjoze-Ojo, Goretti Horgan, Tom Kelly, Michael Alcorn, Caroline St John-Brooks, Colin Thain, Pat Loughrey, John Kindness, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Jonathan Craig, Paul Givan, Antony Alcock, Walter Allen, Aodán Mac Póilin, Alison Kitson, Brendan Hamill, Mary McIntyre, Derek Birley, Malcolm Skilbeck, Denis Moloney, Ian Wilson, Aidan Browne, Christina McKenna, Neil Brittain, Katie Larmour, Brian Philip Davis, Trevor Arthur Smith, Baron Smith of Clifton, Fabian Monds, John Baxter, Laura Patterson, Ross Wilson, Mary Gormley, Brian Irvine, Thomas Niblock, Kathleen Ferguson, Kim L. O'Neill. Excerpt: James Nesbitt (born 15 January 1965) is a Northern Irish actor. Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, Nesbitt grew up in the nearby village of Broughshane, before moving to Coleraine, County Londonderry. He wanted to become a teacher, like his father, so began a degree in French at the University of Ulster. He dropped out after a year when he decided to become an actor, and transferred to the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. After graduating in 1987, he spent seven years performing in plays that varied from the musical Up on the Roof (1987, 1989) to the political drama Paddywack (1994). He made his feature film debut playing talent agent Fintan O'Donnell in Hear My Song (1991). Nesbitt got his breakthrough television role playing Adam Williams in the romantic comedy-drama Cold Feet (1998-2003), which won him a British Comedy Award, a Television and Radio Industries Club Award, and a National Television Award. His first significant film role came when he appeared as pig farmer "Pig" Finn in Waking Ned (1998). With the rest of the starring cast, Nesbitt was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. In Lucky Break (2001), he made his debut as a film lead playing prisoner Jimmy Hands. The next year, he played Ivan Cooper in the television film Bloody Sunday, about the 1972 shootings in Derry. A departure from his previous "cheeky chappie" roles, the film was a turning point in his career. He won a British Independent Film Award and was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. Nesbitt has also starred in Murphy's Law (2001-2007) as undercover detective Tommy Murphy-a role that was created for him by writer Colin Bateman. The role twice gained Nesbitt Best Actor nominations at the Irish Film & Television Awards (IFTA). In 2004, he starred in the fact-based drama Wall of Silence as the father of a murdered boy, a role...