Barry Keoghan (31) has a difficult past. The Irishman is currently on the fast track: last year he was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe and won a BAFTA Award for his role in “The Banshees of Inisherin”. He is also currently being celebrated for the thriller “Saltburn”. But just a few years ago his life looked completely different: Barry’s childhood was characterized by a drug-addicted mother and numerous foster families!
At the age of just five, the actor and his brother Eric were torn from their familiar surroundings for the first time: Because their mother had severe problems with drugs, the two of them were in 13 different foster families within seven years. When her mother died of a heroin overdose at just 30, they came Barry, Eric and her older sister Gemma eventually settled in with their grandmother Patricia near Dublin, according to The Sun. There he began his acting career in the school theater at the age of 12.
He is now one of Hollywood’s most celebrated newcomers. But things are also going great in my private life: since 2022 Barry proud father of a boy named Brando. However, he is no longer with his son’s mother. The screen star recently confirmed in an interview with GQ that he and Alyson Kierans have been separated for several months. But it is rumored that he already has a new girlfriend: Sabrina Carpenter (24).
