Paudge Behan

Paudge Rodger Behan is an Irish actor and writer The son of IRA Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding and Beatrice Behan the widow of playwright Brendan Behan Paudge Behan worked briefly as a journalist for a Dublin newspaper before turning to acting After a series of minor film and television roles in the 1990s he was handpicked by English novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford to appear as the male lead in a 1999 dramatisation of her book A Secret Affair 1996 Behan has also appeared in the feature films A Man of No Importance 1994 Conspiracy of Silence 2003 and Veronica Guerin 2003 and has taken leading roles in two short films A Lonely Sky 2006 and Wake Up 2007