On October 9, 1979, Irish actor and comedian Christopher O’Dowd was born.
He became well-known for his part as Roy Trenneman, one of the major characters in the Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd, which ran for four seasons between 2006 and 2010.
Between 2012 and 2015, he created and starred in the Sky 1 television program Moone Boy. Additionally, he has appeared in a number of movies, such as The Cloverfield Paradox, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, and Cuban Fury (2014).
Chris O’Dowd siblings: Meet John O’Dowd
John Fitzgerald O’Dowd is an Irish politician for Sinn Féin who was born on May 10, 1967. Since 2003, he has served as Upper Bann’s Assembly representative in Northern Ireland.
Prior to this, he served as the Stormont Executive’s Minister for Education from 2011 to 2016 and the Minister for Infrastructure from May to October 2022. In 2011, he temporarily filled the position of deputy first minister while Martin McGuinness sought the Irish presidency.
John O’Dowd has been confirmed as the ‘caretaker’ Infrastructure Minister. He will replace Nichola Mallon of the SDLP who failed to retain her seat in the election.
