A question of taste: Ciarán Bermingham

Ciarán Bermingham is from Glanmire, Co Cork, and his acting roles have included Mord the jailer in Game of Thrones. He stars as Widow Twankey in the Aladdin pantomime at the Everyman in Cork from Saturday until January 10.

Best recent book: Charles Laughton’s Autobiography. He’s was the strange looking English actor who started in ‘The Hunchback of Notre dame’ and ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’. He was a bit of a tortured but brilliant man.

Best recent film: An old film I saw again recently. Steve Martin in Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982). It’s Steve Martin at his best; anyone who hasn’t seen it, they should, the editing alone is genius.