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Run Away star James Nesbitt: ‘My Irishness has always been very important to me. I fought to play my roles as Irish’

  • Ed Power--The Irish Times
  • published date: 2025-12-30 05:20:00 UTC

The latest chapter in the Ballymena man’s hugely successful career is perhaps his starriest yet – all thanks to the murderously moreish whodunits of Harlan Coben

James Nesbitt has made a career of playing Irish men in strange situations. In Cold Feet he was a charmer with a Northern Irish accent living in Manchester, not long after the IRA had detonated a bom… [+7596 chars]