Portrait of Finbar Lynch

Acting

Finbar Lynch

Career

Active from 1983 to 2026, with a break from 2005 to 2014, busiest in 2025 with 2 main titles.

Leading roles
6
top three billing
Average score
GoodWatch score62/100
Highest rated
Poster for King Lear
King Lear
GoodWatch score80/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 30 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Energy: 4.9 versus catalog average 4.6EnergyHeart: 4.2 versus catalog average 4.2HeartHumor: 2.0 versus catalog average 2.6HumorWorld: 5.7 versus catalog average 5.6WorldCraft: 5.7 versus catalog average 5.3CraftStyle: 6.0 versus catalog average 5.9Style
Finbar Lynch Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Pop Culture
    0.7, average 2.2
  • Contemporary Realism
    4.0, average 5.4
  • Physical Comedy
    1.1, average 2.4
  • Absurdist Humor
    1.0, average 2.0

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • Power Dynamics 3
  • Intense Character Study 2
  • Political Intrigue 2
  • Period Piece 2
  • Character Study 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

43
Type
Role
Score
Decade
Genre
Group by

2020s

9 titles ยท average score 57
FLINT
FLINT (2026)

as FINN

Kapodistrias: The Governor
Kapodistrias: The Governor (2025)
GoodWatch score 62

as Klemens von Metternich

Hedda
Hedda (2025)
GoodWatch score 64

as Professor Greenwood

Unwelcome
Unwelcome (2023)
GoodWatch score 58

as Father Brendan

Hamlet: Bristol Old Vic Live
Hamlet: Bristol Old Vic Live (2023)

as Claudius

York Witches Society
York Witches Society (2022)
GoodWatch score 26

as Matthias

Adventures of a Mathematician
Adventures of a Mathematician (2021)
GoodWatch score 54

as G.D. Birkhof

The World We Knew
The World We Knew (2020)

as Carpenter

Industry
Industry (2020)
GoodWatch score 79

TV show ยท as Rupert Weatherson-Wilson KC

2010s

17 titles ยท average score 68
Treadstone
Treadstone (2019)
GoodWatch score 56

TV show ยท as Dr. Martin Wells

The Mallorca Files
The Mallorca Files (2019)
GoodWatch score 55

TV show ยท as Paco

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018)
GoodWatch score 73

TV show ยท as Vice President Robert Fleming

Departure
Departure (2016)
GoodWatch score 74

as Philip

Child 44
Child 44 (2015)
GoodWatch score 46

as Doctor Boris Zarubin

Suffragette
Suffragette (2015)
GoodWatch score 68

as Hugh Ellyn

Antigone at the Barbican
Antigone at the Barbican (2015)

as Teiresias

The Musketeers
The Musketeers (2014)
GoodWatch score 72

TV show ยท as Baltasar

The Numbers Station
The Numbers Station (2013)
GoodWatch score 42

as Michaels

The Hollow Crown
The Hollow Crown (2012)
GoodWatch score 84

TV show ยท as Lord Marshall

Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones (2011)
GoodWatch score 86

TV show ยท as Farmer Hamlet

Silk
Silk (2011)
GoodWatch score 75

TV show ยท as Jody Farr

2000s

8 titles ยท average score 67
Mathilde
Mathilde (2006)

as The Major

Born With Two Mothers
Born With Two Mothers (2005)

as Narrator

Proof
Proof (2004)
GoodWatch score 64

TV show

To Kill a King
To Kill a King (2003)
GoodWatch score 58

as Cousin Henry

Foyle's War
Foyle's War (2002)
GoodWatch score 83

TV show ยท as Avraham Greenfeld

Mind Games
Mind Games (2001)
GoodWatch score 63

as DCI Chris Medwynter

Attila
Attila (2001)
GoodWatch score 64

TV show ยท as Valorus

The Lost Battalion
The Lost Battalion (2001)
GoodWatch score 72

as Ferguson

1990s

6 titles ยท average score 63
Riddler's Moon
Riddler's Moon (1999)
GoodWatch score 39

as Giff Sanders

King Lear
King Lear (1998)
GoodWatch score 80

as Edmund

The Scold's Bridle
The Scold's Bridle (1998)
GoodWatch score 66

as Dave Hughes

A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996)
GoodWatch score 60

as Philostrate / Puck

Dalziel and Pascoe
Dalziel and Pascoe (1996)
GoodWatch score 69

TV show ยท as Dave Cashman

Performance
Performance (1991)

TV show ยท as Edmund

1980s

3 titles ยท average score 39
Small World
Small World (1988)

TV show ยท as Persse McGarrigle

Rawhead Rex
Rawhead Rex (1986)
GoodWatch score 39

as Andy Johnson

The Schooner
The Schooner (1983)

as Joe