Eoin Macken

Eoin Macken is an Irish actor and model. Macken has modelled for Abercrombie and Fitch, Ralph Lauren, and GQ, and has appeared in films such as "The Callback Queen", "Studs", "3Crosses" and "Centurion". He has also appeared on television in series such as RTE's Fair City as Gavin Cluxton and in BBC series Merlin as Sir Gwaine.

In addition, Macken has directed several feature films: "Christian Blake" in 2008, "Dreaming For You", "The Inside" and "Cold". Macken also directed the documentary "The Fashion of Modelling."

Macken began his modelling and acting career in the University College Dublin Fashion Show in 2002 and 2003,after which he joined the model agency Morgan the Agency and was selected as the face of the Abercrombie and Fitch 2003 campaign.

Macken studied acting and began theatre in the UCD drama society, and with Graham Cantwell and Rachel Rath in the Attic Studio.

Macken got his first major film role in 2005, in Studs directed by Paul Mercier, also starring Brendan Gleeson and Emmett J. Scanlan. Subsequently Macken played leading roles in indie films Triple Bill and Rise of the Bricks, before moving to Los Angeles to train with acting coach Vincent Chase, once he had completed his honors degree in Psychology.

Macken wrote and edited his debut feature film Christian Blake, which premiered at the Mid Ulster Film Festival 2008, before playing in the 2008 Galway Film Fleadh. It was released on May 19, 2009 with Celebrity Distribution and the sales company Around The Scenes Inc.He co-wrote and directed the song and video for Una Healy's song "Don't Leave Me Alone". The track was the title track for the no budget indie film, for which Healy wrote much of the sound track.

In 2008, while being the face of the Braun campaign, Macken directed, wrote, edited and acted in his second feature film, Dreaming For You. The film featured a soundtrack composed by Dublin band, The Evora. The film was selected for the 2007 Los Angeles Short Film Festival and for the 2009 Galway Film Fleadh.

Macken has had roles in 2009 in BBC drama Small Island directed by John Alexander, playing an American soldier Calhoon, Neil Marshall's film Centurion opposite Michael Fassbender and Liam Cunningham, the RTE series' RAW season Two, and Storyland, as well as Lee Cronin's film Through The Night opposite Nora Jane Noone. Macken filmed Andrew Hull's feature Siren opposite Anna Skellern mid summer 2009.

Macken directed an hour length documentary on the Irish fashion industry The Fashion of Modelling which screened on RTE 2 on May 24, 2009.[Since 2010, Macken has been playing the recurring character of Gwaine (loosely based on the image of Gawain) in the BBC One TV series Merlin. He has reprised the role in four episodes of the third series and all episodes of the fourth and fifth series.

In the final episode his character perished after being tortured with a snake by Morgana (Played by Katie McGrath) with his final thought being that he failed after giving in to the torture and revealing the injured king's destination. Gwaine was described as a man who "deep down respects honour, valour and camaraderie above everything else."

In October 2012 Macken completed shooting for Cold. The feature film was written and directed by Macken and is starring himself alongside Tom Hopperwho was also in Merlin as Sir Percival.The plot centres around two disconnected English brothers who are outcasts in a small village in the west of Ireland.

Macken is set to star in NBC's new show "The Night Shift" in Fall 2013