Peter Coonan is keeping busy with bad men and big monsters

While he awaits news on Love/Hate, Peter Coonan is keeping busy with stage and film roles, writes Padraic Killeen

PETER Coonan — aka Fran from Love/Hate — is one of Ireland’s most versatile actors. He has built an impressive CV on screen and on stage. In the past 18 months, he has played Brendan Behan in Borstal Boy; Anglo Irish Bank executive David Drumm in The Guarantee; and Gar Public, the young protagonist of Brian Friel’s play, Philadelphia, Here I Come.

His latest project is Before Monsters Were Made, a new play by Ross Dungan. Set in Mayo in 1968, Coonan’s small-town teacher falls under suspicion when a young girl goes missing.