Batman: Who is the mysterious Barry Keogan seen at the end of the DC movie?

The least we can say is that Barry Keogan is experiencing pretty close movie news: after starring in Marvel blockbuster The Eternals and Amazon Prime in the adventure film Green Knight, here he plays Matt Reeves Batman. In this new feature film, which is dedicated to a very cinematic dark knight, a young actor plays a famous antagonist …

Barry Keogan had a difficult childhood in the city of Dublin. He lost his mother at a very young age as a result of a heroin overdose and was then placed in a foster family with his brother for five years. Then the grandmother and aunt raise two children. Quickly, the young Keogan is obsessed with boxing (which he trains on an amateur level) and theater.

With castings multiplying, it was not long before he took on second roles in British dramas, most often focusing on petty crimes such as The King of Travelers (2012). Barry Keogan became known as a troubled teenager who threw a cat love / hate series on the lives of young members of a Dublin gang.

The actor continues in Intense 71, where he shrugs his shoulders at the very fashionable Jack O’Connell as an English soldier trying to escape the IRA in Belfast in the early 1970s. Standby, plays the son of the disturbing Dennis Menochet in Dark Norfolk and the traders opposite Game of Thrones star John Bradley.

2017 is a year of blessing for Barry Keogan, as he is on the drama poster of the one who harassed us, led by superstar Michael Fassbender, then Margaret, where he staged a 17-year-old small strike. But it was primarily his performances at Dunkirk and Mise à Mort du Cerf Sacré that made him stand out to a wide audience.

In Christopher Nolan’s film, he plays Mark Rylan and Tom Glynn-Carney, a civilian on a boat who wants to help British soldiers trying to escape from a French city. In a very disturbing thriller by Greek director George Lantimos (screenplay prize in Cannes), he worries as an extremely harmful young teenager, between an angel and a demon, opposite Colin Farrell.

Barry Keogan continues the robbery film American Animals and the gangster film Calm with Horses. He also appears in two episodes of the hit series Chernobyl. At the end of 2021 she joined MCU through The Eternals of Chloé Zhao. There he is a druid, a member of a group of superheroes from the borders of the universe, whose heavy task is to protect the earth from deviants.

In the process, the Dublin native embodies the Liar Cleaner in the Green Knight, re-reads Arthur Legend for Amazon Prime, then joins the Batman cast. Announced as a translator for police officer Stanley Merkel, he will eventually camp the Joker during a short scene at Arkham Psychiatric Hospital. That’s why he is one of the actors who has played in both Marvel and DC!

But director Matt Reeves explained to AlloCiné at the microphone that the Joker’s presence in Batman does not necessarily guarantee that he will be part of a potential sequel. He just wanted to show the character so that the viewer would realize the fact that the protagonist has already arrested several criminals … Anyway, Barry Keogan’s play did not go unnoticed!