Brendan O'Carroll

Brendan O'Carroll son of Maureen O'Carroll (former TD, Ireland) is a comedian, writer, actor and Director from Finglas, Dublin, Ireland.

O'Carroll has written six novels, including "The Mammy", "The Chisslers", "The Granny" and "The Young Wan"; a number of these have become best sellers and have been published in other languages.

He has also written four movies and seven stage plays.Fact|date=February 2007 These include "The Course" (1995), "Grandad's Sure Lilly's Still Alive"(1997), "The Last Wedding" (1999), "Mourning Mrs Brown" (2000), "Mrs Brown Rides Again" (2004) and "For the Love of Mrs Brown" (2007).

For a long time had a pony tail, until it was removed by Leeds Utd and Ireland footballer Gary Kelly in 1994 at the USA world cup. The ponytail was subsequently auctioned for charity and was sold for $15,000.

Much of his comedy is about his childhood in Finglas and Dublin City and his infatuation with carrots. He is currently touring with his trilogy of stage plays, "Mrs Brown's Last Wedding", "Mourning Mrs Brown", and "Mrs Brown Rides again", which follow the story of a Dublin "mammy" and her grown-up children.

Anjelica Huston starred as Mrs. Brown in the movie version, 'Agnes Brown', based on O'Carroll's novel 'The Mammy'. It was filmed entirely on location in Dublin, Ireland, co-starring O'Carroll himself. O'Carroll also penned the screenplay.

O'Carroll, born on September 17th 1955, is the youngest of 11 children. He married Doreen Dowdall at 20 years of age and has three children, Fiona (1980) Daniel (1984) and Eric (1992). His first Marriage ended amicably in 1998.

In 2005, O'Carroll married Actress/Director Jennifer Gibney (Goodbye to the Hill), (Some Mothers Son), (Agnes Brown).

O'Carroll had many jobs before entering the entertainment world at 35 years of age in 1990. All of his six books, seven plays, four movies and six stand-up DVD's were written between 1990 and 2006.

He is a member of Mensa with an IQ in the top 2% worldwide [ [http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/if-you-dont-score-in-the-top-2-of-the-population-youll-never-get-into-the-high-iq-society-which-celebrates-its-60th-birthday-this-year-ed-power-reports-116339.html Article on 60th anniversary of Mensa] by Ed Power, Irish Independent] .

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