Micheál Mac Liammóir

Biography

Micheál Mac Liammóir was a renowned Irish actor, designer, dramatist, writer, and impresario. Born Alfred Willmore in London to an English family, he emigrated to Ireland as an adult, reinventing himself as a native Corkonian with fabricated Irish ancestry. He co-founded the Gate Theatre in Dublin, designing numerous productions and writing eleven plays, including the celebrated one-man show "The Importance of Being Oscar".