Brendan O'Carroll was born on September 15, 1955 in Dublin, Ireland. He is an Irish writer, producer, comedian, actor, and director, best known for portraying foul-mouthed matriarch Agnes Brown in the BBC television sitcom Mrs. Brown's Boys (2011), Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie (2014) and Mrs. Brown's Boys: The Original Series (2002). He has been married to Jennifer Gibney since August 1, 2005. He was previously married to Doreen O'Carroll.
Madea's back - hallelujer! And she's not putting up with any nonsense as family drama erupts at her great-grandson's college graduation celebration.
Release Date:2022-02-25
Character:Agnes Brown
Vote Count:116
Through previously unseen footage and clips, we reveal a very different side to the late comedian Les Dawson's public persona and discover the real Les away from the spotlight.
Release Date:2021-07-21
Character:Self
Colm Meaney presents a celebration of Roddy Doyle's trilogy about Dublin family the Rabbittes and the film adaptations of the books, The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van.
Release Date:2021-05-16
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
This one-hour special documentary celebrates 25 star-studded years of the National Television Awards, with contributions from stars including Graham Norton and Simon Cowell.
Release Date:2020-01-07
Character:Self
Mrs Brown opens the doors to her house for a Saturday night entertainment show in which she and the family are joined by celebrity guests.
Release Date:2017-03-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:Agnes Brown
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:13
It's just weeks to go to Christmas in the Brown house. The turkey is getting plucked and Grandad is getting stuffed (Or is that the other way around). Agnes is excited because her son Trevor whom she has not seen in five years has promised to pay a Christmas Visit home. However Cathy returns from her trip to America with unwelcome news, but who will tell Mammy? Rory Brown is distraught because his partner Dino has tried to drown him, Mark and Betty do their best to keep everybody calm, while nobody is sure what to do about Winnie's big box or Granddad‘s little hamster.
Release Date:2015-11-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Mrs Agnes Brown
Vote Count:5
Christmas comedy entertainment special hosted by stand-up comedian Michael McIntyre, featuring celebrity guests, audience games and live music. Michael embraces as many eclectic Christmas rituals as possible - serving up the ultimate treat to cap off Christmas Day around the UK. From tree decorating, present opening, cracker jokes and leftover sandwich making - he covers it all, helped by some incredible celebrity guests and an audience packed full of festive characters.
Release Date:2014-12-25
Character:Self
Following the huge success of Good Mourning Mrs Brown & Mrs Brown Rides Again, Agnes takes to the stage again with another live tour of the popular comedy Mrs Brown's Boys. Brendan O'Carroll, Eilish O'Carroll and Jennifer Gibney star in For The Love Of Mrs Brown. A few days before Valentine's Day, Agnes is feeling down in the dumps. Even Granddad has a date. She is advised by Cathy to find a date over the internet. Meanwhile, Rory has found a small capsule of LSD tablets at the salon, and needs to find the owner so he can fire them. However, Mrs. Brown walks in on him talking to Dermot about it, and he is forced to tell her they are for indigestion. She stores them in the cupboard until she gets a case of indegestion a few days later….
Release Date:2014-11-17
Character:Agnes Brown
Vote Count:3
When Moore Street market-trader Agnes Brown finds her livelihood under threat from a ruthless developer, she and her family embark on a campaign to save her stall, aided as only the Browns will be by a motley troop of blind trainee Ninjas, an alcoholic solicitor, and a barrister with Tourettes Syndrome.
Release Date:2014-06-27
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:Agnes Brown
Vote Count:68
Get ready for more outrageous behaviour as things aren't looking so great for Mammy; Cathy's psychiatrist boyfriend wants her to be his case study, Winnie's husband Jacko needs a life-saving but unaffordable operation and Buster and Dermot have come up with another dim-witted scheme to make some quick cash. To top it off she's overheard her family talking about putting her in a care home... and decides to show them just how fit and functional she is by displaying a new lease of life. She's up against it all right, but nothing keeps Mrs. Brown down for long!
Release Date:2013-11-11
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:Agnes Brown
Vote Count:5
A group of night security guards working at the fictional Whittington shopping centre in Greater Manchester must create an elaborate scheme to hide a robbery that has taken place on their watch.
Release Date:2013-04-12
Character:Jimmy
Get ready to experience everyone’s favourite mother hen at her most outrageous in her very first Live Tour DVD. Prepare for a riot of bad behaviour as you see Mrs Brown Live and unleashed for the first time in a show jam packed with all the laughs and drama you can expect from the mother of all comedy. Featuring your favourite characters from the series, the live show is even ruder and cruder than the hit TV show and guaranteed loads of big laughs. So if you loved Mrs Brown’s Boys the series you will love Mrs Brown’s Boys Live Tour: Good Mourning Mrs Brown - Too rude for TV.
Release Date:2012-11-12
Character:Agnes Brown
Vote Count:11
Mrs. Brown's Boys is a British-Irish award winning sitcom created by and starring writer and performer Brendan O'Carroll. The show is based on O'Carroll's stage plays about the character Agnes Browne, which were developed from books and straight-to-DVD films. The sitcom continues the stories of Agnes, now with the shortened surname "Brown", and her family who are played by real life close friends and family of O'Carroll's. After being slated by critics, the show has become a ratings success in both Ireland, where it is set, and the United Kingdom, where it is recorded. On 29 December 2012 the show began its third series. Mrs Brown's Boys is a co-production among BBC Scotland, BocPix and RTÉ.
Release Date:2011-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:Agnes Brown
Episode Count:18
Vote Count:90
Release Date:2010-10-18
Character:Agnes Brown
Vote Count:2
Georgie Godwin is the fattest man in Britain. A tourist attraction, thanks to greedy 'agent, cabbie Morris. Devoted neighbour Janice is Georgie's only other regular outside contact until he meets Amy, a pregnant teenager fleeing a violent boyfriend ,whom he takes in as a lodger. Amy tries to help Georgie change his lifestyle, but Morris is more than keen to stop her ruining his tourist attraction.
Release Date:2009-12-20
Character:Father O'Flaherty
Vote Count:12
A vanity project by Wexford-based comedian Barry O'Neill, starring and directing and writing. About Ireland's answer to Inspector Clouseau, supported by a cast of Irish stars who were presumably roped into this to help Barry. A bumbling wannabe private detective investigates the mysterious disappearance of a fiddle player much to the irritation of police officers who have been assigned to the case. The private detective finds himself in over his head when evidence points to a Russian mobster.
Release Date:2008-12-12
Mrs. Brown takes on the role of a pop svengali in her latest adventure, putting together a boy band as only she knows how. Agnes puts Louis Walsh to shame in her promotion of the new Irish pop sensations 'Westboys Life' and their debut single 'Love On A Humpback Bridge'.
Release Date:2008-01-01
Character:Agnes Brown
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
Release Date:2007-02-22
Character:Self
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:259
After overhearing a "secret" family meeting about putting her into a "home" Agnes Brown decides to prove herself fit and sane to the rest of the Brown family. But does passing out after jogging once around the house prove her fit? Or does giving herself a "Brazilian" locked in a cupboard prove her sane? Welcome to Part 6 in the Brown family saga - more mayhem, more hilarious and bizarre events that only the Brown family can generate!
Release Date:2007-01-01
Character:Agnes Brown
Agnes Brown - a widow living in Ireland - runs her home with an iron fist as she manages her sons, daughter Kathy and best friend Winnie. Add elderly Grandad, various in-laws and grandchildren to the mix and Mrs Brown usually has her hands full. Funny, outspoken and never at a loss for words (especially profanity), she gets through life and the daily grind with a caustic remark and a loving wink. What makes the show different is that the "fourth wall" is broken often leaving in the bloopers.
Release Date:2006-04-10
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:3
Welcome back to the home of Agnes Brown and her disparate family. With the arrival of the triplets to Dermot and Maria Brown, it seems time for him to settle down, but as usual Buster Brady has a brilliant scam and Dermot finds it irresistible. Rory is having trouble convincing Dino that he is not pregnant. Mark Brown needs to be daddy and this might mean that someone gets a smack in the gob! Cathy dates yet another gobshite and Sharon's lust for Corny looks like it's going to last.
Release Date:2006-01-01
Character:Agnes Brown
The family has decided that it's time for Grandad's funeral - the fact that he's not dead makes no difference to their plans. Cathy is looking at her policeman boyfriend and wondering what kind of husband he'd be. She may find out sooner than she thinks.
Release Date:2005-01-01
Character:Agnes Brown
Max And Paddy's Road To Nowhere is the much-loved sequel to Peter Kay's critically-acclaimed comedy series, "Phoenix Nights". Written by and starring Peter Kay and Patrick McGuinness, this six-part comedy/drama series is the story of clueless Phoenix Club bouncers Max (Kay) and Paddy (McGuinness), as they escape clubland in their prized motor-home and take to the open highway.
Release Date:2004-11-12
Character:Gypsy Joe
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:28
A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.
Release Date:2004-10-12
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:23
Here she goes again, the formidable Agnes Brown trying to keep her chaotic family in order (forgetting of course that she is the cause of most of the chaos). In this, part three of the series, Agnes tries not to interfere (yeah right!) as she sees her daughter Cathy fall in love with a hunk of a detective Garda (Keith Duffy), but is all as it seems? Cathy's best friend, that sexy, shapely, slapper Sharon, doesn't think so.
Release Date:2004-01-01
Character:Agnes Brown
Part 2 of the story based on the hugely successful stage play. Join Agnes Brown and her doting family again as she tries to figure out... Who is marrying who? What is she going to wear? Will Simon get his promotion? And what is Rory doing with that man in his mouth? Once again Write/Directory and Star Brendan O'Carroll takes us on a hilarious whirlwind tour of his "average" family.
Release Date:2003-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Agnes Brown
In Part One, Join the formidable Dublin widow Agnes Brown and her hilarious family of five sons and one daughter as she plows through the preparations for the family wedding.
Release Date:2002-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Agnes Brown
Recorded Live at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin When you remember that Brendan O'Carroll began his comedy career in his native city of Dublin - playing in pubs to maybe 100 people - then it puts into perspective this performance in the Olympia Theatre as he returns to the City by the Liffey to a record pre-sold 50,000 tickets. This show includes readings from his novel "The Mammy" and even Brendan singing his lovesong "How can I say I love you?"
Release Date:1999-12-01
Vote Count:1
Set in Dublin in 1967, the story of feisty woman, who along with her seven children, learns to cope with adversity after the unexpected death of her husband.
Release Date:1999-11-08
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:30
Recorded Live at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin After six years on the road playing the Mother of all Mammys, Agnes Brown. Brendan O'Carroll returns to his Stand Up Comedy roots. And where would he go but to his native Dublin City. The Olympia Theatre sold out the 10,000 tickets for the week long run in just one hour. So out he stepped to an audience full of anticipation and ready to have a laugh. And they did....Big Time! Enjoy Brendan as he takes the audience on a character trip which includes: Charlie Smart, the 80 year old cynical auld bastard, Agnes Brown who just has to comment on the uselessness of men and then the man himself Brendan O'Caroll takes center stage, and lays waste to all the things tht annoy him (and probably you too) - you will howl along with the Olympia audience watching a true master at work.
Release Date:1997-12-01
Vote Count:1
Recorded Live at the Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork In the "Real" Capital of Ireland, Cork City, Brendan O'Carroll takes the Southern Audience on a riotous trip through Irish life. Also featuring the debut performance on DVD of Brendan's most loved character "Rocky Brennan"
Release Date:1995-12-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
A handsome stranger appears in Foley's Pub, surprisingly to find Agnes Brown. The question is: will she go on her first date in years and what will happen during this date?
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Agnes Brown
Vote Count:2
3 festive episodes of Mrs brown boys * Mammy's Ass * Mammy Christmas * The Virgin Mammy
2015 Christmas Episodes
Mammy's Ass, Mammy Christmas, The Virgin Mammy, Buckin' Mammy, Who's A Pretty Mammy?, Mammy's Tickled Pink, Mammy's Gamble & more
Exocit Mammy & Mammy's Hotel
2018 Christmas Special
2021 Christmas Specials
2014 Christmas specials
Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.
Release Date:2003-09-11
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:250
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
Release Date:1999-12-25
Character:Funeral Carriage Driver
Vote Count:320
Sweety Barrett is a giant of a man with the mind of a child. An easy target in a corrupt world, Sweety becomes embroiled in a smuggling operation unleashing a spiral of dangerous and unexpected events.
Release Date:1999-04-16
Character:Rissolli
Vote Count:4
In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy, Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well, but the relationship between the two friends soon becomes strained as Bimbo behaves more like a typical boss.
Release Date:1996-11-29
Character:Weslie
Vote Count:71
Recorded Live at the Theatre Royal in Limerick City Ireland's No. 1 funny man takes you on a hilarious journey through Christmas parties, life with the kids, his unsuccessful attempts at getting laid and his wedding day in a non-stop helter-skelter of laughter and outrageous mayhem.
Release Date:1994-10-15
Vote Count:2
live episode of mrs brown boys filmed for bbc
Mrs. Brown and the gang start the New Year with a tough new health and fitness regime to get into shape, but a mysterious visitor to Finglas raises some difficult questions from Agnes' past.
Character:Agnus Brown
Vote Count:6
Fast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101.
Release Date:1994-07-04
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:23
Chat show that looks at current affairs in Ireland
Release Date:1962-07-06
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:3