Paudge Rodger Behan (/ˈpɔːdʒ ˈrɒdʒər ˈbiːən/ PAWJ ROJ-ər-BEE-ən; born January 1965) is an Irish actor and writer. The son of IRA Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding and Beatrice ffrench-Salkeld, 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).
He has one older half brother and two younger half brothers. His biological father the late Cathal Goulding married Patty Germaine in 1950 and they had a son, Cathal Og. Cathal separated from his wife. He had Paudge, with Beatrice Behan, widow of Brendan Behan. Later they broke up and in 1971 his dad Cathal began living with Dr. Moira Woods who had 6 children of her own .They subsequently had two sons, Aodhgan and Banban.
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Adoptive son of legendary Irish playwright Brendan Behan. His real dad was the late Cathal Goulding.