Finbar Lynch is an Irish actor. Back in Dublin at the age of 18, Lynch doorknocked local theatres seeking acting work but was turned down due to lack of experience.
Working as a stagehand, he successfully auditioned for a minor role in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, which started off his acting career.
In 1999, Lynch was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play for his performance as Canary Jim in the Broadway run of the rediscovered Tennessee Williams play Not About Nightingales.
Lynch’s television work includes recurring appearances in the soap opera Glenroe, Proof, Breathless and the miniseries Small World; as Doctor Martin Wells in the Bourne spin-off television series Treadstone, along with minor appearances in Waking the Dead, Dalziel and Pascoe.
Niamh and Finbar met on set during a theatre production of Three Sisters in 1990, the play also starred her sisters Sinéad and Sorcha as well as her father Cyril.
The couple has a son, Calam Lynch, who is also an actor.
Calam was born in 1994 and was educated at Somerville College, Oxford, before becoming inspired to act by his cousin Max Irons, the son of Sinéad and Jeremy.
He is best known for his role in the 2020 Disney adaptation of Black Beauty which appeared on Disney+ and his stint in BBC’s drama Mrs Wilson.