
Paudge Rodger Behan is an Irish actor and writer. The son of IRA Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding and Beatrice Behan, the widow of playwright Brendan Behan, Paudge Behan worked briefly as a journalist for a Dublin newspaper before turning to acting. After a series of minor film and television roles in the 1990s, he was handpicked by English novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford to appear as the male lead in a 1999 dramatisation of her book A Secret Affair (1996). Behan has also appeared in the feature films A Man of No Importance (1994), Conspiracy of Silence (2003) and Veronica Guerin (2003), and has taken leading roles in two short films, A Lonely Sky (2006) and Wake Up (2007).

Casualty
TV • 1986

Highlander: The Series
TV • 1992

Medici: Masters of Florence
TV • 2016

The Man Who Fell to Earth
TV • 2022

Love/Hate
TV • 2010

Stan Lee's Lucky Man
TV • 2016

Anglo Saxon Attitudes
TV • 1992

The New Adventures of Robin Hood
TV • 1997

Close Relations
TV • 1998

Veronica Guerin
MOVIE • 2003

American Night
MOVIE • 2021

Uncovered
MOVIE • 1995

London Kills Me
MOVIE • 1991

A Secret Affair
MOVIE • 1999

A Man of No Importance
MOVIE • 1994

Conspiracy of Silence
MOVIE • 2003

Made in Dublin
MOVIE • 2023

Snakes and Ladders
MOVIE • 1996