Ardal O'Hanlon TV Shows & Roles

About Ardal O’Hanlon

Ardal O’Hanlon is an Irish comedian, actor and author, educated at Blackrock College in Dublin and the National Institute for Higher Education (now Dublin City University), where he graduated in Communications Studies in 1987. He co-founded Dublin’s Comedy Cellar and won Comedy Newcomer of the Year at the Hackney Empire in 1994, before being cast by Graham Linehan as the endearingly dim Father Dougal McGuire in Father Ted. He went on to play George Sunday/Thermoman in My Hero (2000-2006) and then DI Jack Mooney in Death in Paradise (2017-2020). His other credits include Val Falvey TD and the 2025 series Sherlock & Daughter.

Ardal O’Hanlon TV shows

Death In Paradise 2011

as Jack Mooney

2011 · 15 seasons · BBC

Set on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie, Death in Paradise follows a succession of British detectives who, thrown into leading the local police force under very different circumstances, find themselves solving ingenious, locked-room-style murders against a backdrop of shimmering seas and sun-soaked beaches. Each detective brings his own quirks and quirks to the role

Return to Paradise

as DI Jack Mooney

2024 · 3 seasons · BBC

Set in the idyllic coastal hamlet of Dolphin Cove on Australia's Illawarra coast, Return to Paradise follows Mackenzie "Mack" Clarke, a golden girl of the London Metropolitan Police whose seemingly unrivalled detective instincts are overshadowed by a career-ending scandal, forcing her to return to the childhood home—and the murky past—she left behind six years earlier.

About Ardal O’Hanlon