Robert Sheehan

Robert Sheehan is an Irish actor best known for television roles such as Nathan Young in Misfits, Darren Treacy in Love/Hate, and Klaus Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy, as well as film roles such as Tom Natsworthy in Mortal Engines and Simon Lewis in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.

Sheehan has received multiple Irish Film and Television Award nominations and a British Academy Television Award nomination. In 2020, he was listed as number 41 on The Irish Times list of Ireland’s greatest film actors.

During the 2000s, Sheehan started appearing in television series. His most prominent roles were as a series regular in the Australian series Foreign Exchange, the historical fantasy Young Blades, the drama series Rock Rivals, and the first two seasons of the science fiction series Misfits. In “Misfits”(C4 and Netflix), the characters are youths in community service who gain superpowers. Sheehan’s character, Nathan Young, gains the power of immortality.

Sheehan had a co-starring role in the drama film Cherrybomb. The film is about two teenage boys who are trying to impress a female love interest through performing criminal acts.

Sheehan started the 2010s as a series regular in the crime drama series Love/Hate. He has continued regularly appearing in theatre, film and television roles, including (most recently) the series regular role of Klaus in all four seasons of “The Umbrella Academy” (Netflix, 2019-2024). Among his most prominent theatrical roles is the role of Richard Duke of Gloucester/Richard III in an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s depiction of “The Wars of the Roses” directed by Trevor Nunn.