Eamon O’Rourke has been a director, writer, actor and award-winning TV presenter. As a filmmaker, he is well-regarded for his insightful documentaries on the damage done by homophobia and the plight of Syrian refugees.
As an actor, Eamon played leading roles in popular TV shows such as Nashville and Knight Rider before playing the role of Patrick Donovan in Born This Way.
He also starred alongside Jason Momoa in film Road To Paloma where he plays Robert Hannigan. Eamon also stars opposite Jane Seymour in Missing Child (2005) and as Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder: Back & Forth (2000).
Eamon also has a passion for charity and helps fund various charities that promote LGBT rights, such as the Trevor Howard Foundation, an international charity working to spread awareness of homophobic and transphobic bullying in schools around the world. Eamon was born in Burntisland, Fife. He was brought up with his brother and three sisters by his father and grandmother in Carnbee which is a small village north of Dundee. Eamon O’Rourke said: “I was lucky enough to grow up in the countryside. I went to a very strict Catholic school, where I used to get belts.”
Eamon O’Rourke is well known for his role as Tommy Westphall in the American TV series Knight Rider (1982) and its later spin-offs.
He has had roles in many popular TV shows that have included Doctor Who, The Avengers, Coronation Street, Silent Witness and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He also starred in the first ever ever all male nude scene in a mainstream American television show on As The World Turns.
Eamon is also a TV presenter and was one of the original presenters on MTV Europe where he interviewed bands such as Oasis and The Manic Street Preachers. Eamon co-presented the youth programmed “Flaunt It” with Melvin Odoom for Channel 4.