Barry Keoghan: net worth, age, height, partner and children

Barry Keoghan, born on October 18, 1992, in Dublin, Ireland, is a 34-year-old Irish actor whose estimated net worth is $8 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth, although some other published estimates put the figure at $4 million. He rose from a childhood spent largely in foster care in Dublin to international acclaim with The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Dunkirk, The Banshees of Inisherin, for which he won a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award, and Saltburn. He has no confirmed partner at present, and he has one son, Brando, born in August 2022.

Quick facts

Biography and early life

Barry Keoghan was born in the Summerhill area of Dublin, Ireland, on October 18, 1992, so his birthday falls in mid-October and he turned 34 in October 2026. Some older listings give October 17, a date he has corrected himself. According to Britannica and Celebrity Net Worth, his early life was exceptionally difficult. His mother, Debbie, struggled with heroin addiction, and she died when he was 12 years old, at about 31. He never knew his father. Keoghan and his younger brother, Eric, spent seven years in foster care, moving between 13 different foster homes, before they were raised by family members including their grandmother and their aunt in Summerhill, one of Dublin’s poorest neighborhoods.

Keoghan has spoken about those years without self-pity, crediting the experience with giving him drive and an ability to understand damaged characters. He found acting through a casting call he spotted in a shop window in Dublin, which led to his first film role. He trained informally, watching films closely and taking the small parts Irish productions offered, while his brother Eric remained his closest family support. As an adult he has supported children’s charities in Ireland, including work connected to Barretstown, and has presented his own childhood openly as the starting point of his career rather than a secret to be managed.

Career: film and television

Keoghan made his feature film debut in the Irish crime film Between the Canals in 2011 and appeared the same year in the Irish soap opera Fair City. He took a notable early television role in the crime drama Love/Hate in 2013 and appeared in the historical thriller ’71 in 2014, followed by smaller films including Mammal and Trespass Against Us in 2016. His international breakthrough came in 2017 with two films in a single year. In Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk he played George Mills, the teenage hand aboard a civilian boat crossing to the evacuation beaches. In Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer, opposite Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman, he played Martin Lang, a quiet and menacing teenager who insinuates himself into a surgeon’s family. The performance won him the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actor and made his reputation.

The work that followed mixed independent film with large productions. He starred in the heist film American Animals in 2018, received a BAFTA nomination for Calm with Horses in 2019, played the liquidator Pavel in the acclaimed HBO miniseries Chernobyl that year, and appeared in The Green Knight in 2021. The same year he entered franchise filmmaking as Druig, the mind-controlling Eternal in Marvel’s Eternals, and he appeared briefly as the Joker, credited as an unseen Arkham prisoner, in The Batman in 2022. His most honored performance came in Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin in 2022, where his portrayal of Dominic Kearney, a vulnerable young islander, won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and earned him an Academy Award nomination. In 2023 he led Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn as Oliver Quick, a role that brought him a second wave of international attention and a Golden Globe nomination. He played Lieutenant Curtis Biddick in the Apple TV+ war miniseries Masters of the Air in 2024 and starred in Andrea Arnold’s Bird the same year. He has since been cast as Ringo Starr in Sam Mendes’s four-film Beatles project, the most prominent casting announcement of his career to date. His career has taken him on location across Ireland, Britain and continental Europe, the kind of long working trips for which a careful checklist of what to pack for a two-week trip to Italy is a useful starting point for any traveler spending weeks away from home.

Movies and television shows

Keoghan’s best-known screen credits include the following.

• Between the Canals (2011) and Fair City (2011, television)
• Love/Hate (2013, television) and ’71 (2014)
• Mammal (2016) and Trespass Against Us (2016)
• Dunkirk (2017) and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
• American Animals (2018)
• Calm with Horses (2019) and Chernobyl (2019, television)
• The Green Knight (2021) and Eternals (2021)
• The Batman (2022) and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
• Saltburn (2023)
• Masters of the Air (2024, television) and Bird (2024)

The list shows a deliberate pattern: demanding roles with distinctive directors, from Lanthimos and Nolan to McDonagh, Fennell and Arnold, balanced against franchise appearances that widened his audience. It is a filmography built on performance rather than on star vehicles.

His television work deserves separate notice, because it bookends the film career. He began on Irish television, in Fair City in 2011 and in a memorable turn in Love/Hate in 2013, graduated to prestige drama as Pavel in Chernobyl in 2019, joined the final season of the British crime series Top Boy in 2023, and reached his largest television audience as Lieutenant Curtis Biddick in Masters of the Air in 2024, the Apple TV+ miniseries about the American Eighth Air Force in World War II. Few actors of his age hold leading credits in both independent European cinema and American prestige television at the same time.

Net worth

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Barry Keoghan has a net worth of $8 million. Some other published estimates are lower, at about $4 million, and the disagreement is a normal feature of estimates for an actor whose salaries are not publicly disclosed. No public filing confirms either figure. What the record does show is the shape of his earnings: more than a decade of steadily rising film and television fees, from Irish productions to leading roles, plus fashion work that includes a global ambassador role with Burberry, announced in March 2024. His largest paychecks are recent, following the success of The Banshees of Inisherin and Saltburn, so published estimates that predate those films tend to run lower than current ones.

His net worth should also be read against his career stage. At 34, with an Academy Award nomination, a BAFTA win and a lead role in a major Beatles film project ahead of him, his earnings are at the steep part of their curve. Estimates in the $4 million to $8 million range describe a fortune still being built, not a settled one, and future updates from the same sources will likely move the number as his announced projects are released.

Personal life and family

Keoghan’s family story begins with his mother, Debbie, whose addiction and early death shaped his childhood, and with his brother Eric, alongside whom he passed through 13 foster homes. The brothers remain close, and Keoghan has credited Eric with supporting his start in acting. He is an Irish national, born and raised in Dublin, and his nationality and Dublin upbringing are central to his public identity and to many of his roles.

On partners, the verified record is specific and should not be inflated. Keoghan was in a relationship with Alyson Kierans, also reported under the name Alyson Sandro, a Scottish orthodontist. Their son, Brando Keoghan, was born on August 8, 2022, and was named after the actor Marlon Brando. The relationship ended in 2023. Keoghan then dated the singer Sabrina Carpenter after the two were first linked in December 2023. In December 2024, People confirmed that the couple had decided to take a break after about a year together, with both described as young and focused on their careers, and the relationship did not resume on any confirmed basis. Reports in August 2025 described the pair as on and off, but no reliable outlet has confirmed a current partner for Keoghan since, and rumored links that circulated online have never been verified. The accurate answer to the partner question is therefore plain: as of late 2026, Barry Keoghan has no confirmed partner, and his confirmed family is his son Brando.

Fatherhood is the part of his personal life he discusses most willingly. He has described becoming a father as life-changing and has said that online commentary about his parenting, which followed the end of the Carpenter relationship, was a factor in his decision to step back from social media, a subject covered in the Instagram section below.

Instagram and public presence

Keoghan’s Instagram handle was @keoghan92, and the account had close to a million followers. In December 2024, following his split from Sabrina Carpenter and a wave of abusive messages, he deactivated the account. In a statement posted on X, he said he deactivated it because he could no longer let the content distract from his family and his work, and that some messages were ones no person should have to read. Reporting in March 2026 still described the account as deactivated and Keoghan as having withdrawn from social media, while noting that he occasionally checks online reaction to his appearances. Readers should therefore treat any account currently using his name or the old handle with caution: as of the latest reliable reporting, Barry Keoghan has no confirmed active official Instagram account, and @keoghan92 is a former, deactivated handle, not a live profile to follow.

Closing summary

Barry Keoghan’s profile is one of the most unusual rises in modern film. Born on October 18, 1992, in Summerhill, Dublin, he lost his mother at 12, never knew his father, and spent seven years in 13 foster homes with his brother Eric before family members raised him. From a shop-window casting call he built a career through Dunkirk and The Killing of a Sacred Deer to a BAFTA Award and an Academy Award nomination for The Banshees of Inisherin and a leading role in Saltburn. An Irish actor with an estimated net worth of $8 million according to Celebrity Net Worth, he is the father of one son, Brando, and has no confirmed partner at present.