The Actors

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The Actors
Directed by	Conor McPherson
Written by	Conor McPherson
Produced by	Neil Jordan Redmond Morris
Starring	Michael Caine Dylan Moran Lena Headey Michael Gambon Miranda Richardson Michael McElhatton Abigail Iversen Aisling O'Sullivan Ben Miller Simon Delaney Alvaro Lucchesi
Cinematography	Seamus McGarvey
Edited by	Emer Reynolds
Music by	Michael Nyman
Production companies	Miramax Films FilmFour Senator Film The Irish Film Board Four Provinces Films Company of Wolves Close Call Films
Distributed by	Icon Film Distribution (Australia) Senator Filmverleih (Germany) Momentum Pictures (United Kingdom and Ireland, through FilmFour Distributors)[1]
Release date	17 April 2003 (2003-04-17)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	Ireland
Language	English

The Actors is a 2003 Irish film written and directed by Conor McPherson and starring Dylan Moran and Michael Caine. In supporting roles are Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson and Lena Headey.

The Actors is a contemporary comedy set in Dublin. It follows the exploits of two mediocre stage actors as they devise a plan to con a retired gangster out of £50,000. The gangster owes the money to a third party, whom he has never met.

The actors take advantage of this fact by impersonating this 'unidentified' third party, and claiming the debt as their own. To pull it off they enlist Moran's eerily intelligent nine-year-old niece, who restructures the plan each time something goes wrong.

The two protagonists are acting in a version of Shakespeare's Richard III in which everyone dresses in Nazi uniform, a sly nod to Ian McKellen's production.

The film is centred on the Olympia Theatre, and it is noteworthy for featuring the famous glass awning over the entrance which has since been destroyed in a traffic accident. The glass awning has since been rebuilt to its full former glory.