Irish actor Colm Meaney has an estimated net worth of $10 million. He was born Colm J. Meaney on May 30, 1953 in Dublin, Ireland. He studied acting at the age of fourteen and attended the Abbey Theater School of Acting after secondary school. He spent the next eight years as a member of the Irish National Theater in England while touring with several theater companies.
Meaney made his first television appearance in 1978 in Z-Cars on BBC1. He then went on to appear in supporting and co-starring roles several projects including Remington Steel, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, where he is most widely recognized, Scarlett, Gone with the Wind, Stargate Atlantis, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Simpsons and Men In Trees. He currently stars as railroad magnate Thomas Durant on AMC’s drama series Hell on Wheels.
Colm Meaney’s film projects included Playboy of the Western World, Die Hard 2, Dick Tracy, The Commitments, Under Siege, Last of the Mohicans, Far and Away, Into the West, The Snapper, The Road to Wellville, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, Con Air, Mystery, Alaska, Layer Cake, Five Finger and Law Abiding Citizen. His significant roles in motion pictures included The Damned United, all three film adaptations of Roddy Doyle’s The Barrytown Trilogy, Get Him to the Greek and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.