Denys Hawthorne

Biography

Denys Hawthorne was a Northern Irish actor born in 1932 into an upper middle-class Protestant family in Portadown, County Armagh. He studied law at Queen's University Belfast before joining the Ulster Group Theatre and later became a successful radio personality, reading Louis MacNeice's poetry after his death. His notable stage credits include The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco and Bloomsday, a dramatization of James Joyce's Ulysses, both at London theatres.