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Irish actor

For the Fair City actor named 'Rory Conroy', see Fair City.

Rúaidhrí Conroy (born 30 November 1979 in Dublin) is an Irish actor.

He is the son of actor Brendan Conroy.^[1] One of his first castings was as Tito (and not Tayto as commonly misconceived) in the 1992 film Into the West, for which he won a Young Artist Award in the Outstanding Youth Actors in a Family Foreign Film category.^[2] In 1998, Conroy received the Theatre World Award for his performance in Martin McDonagh's play, The Cripple of Inishmaan.^[3]

Conroy also appeared in another McDonagh piece, Six Shooter, which won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in 2006.^[4] Although invited to the 78th Academy Awards, Conroy was unable to attend due to a "passport infringement" on arrival, r