Famous Laois actor back on Netflix and coming to Electric Picnic

Laois is the homeplace of a legit Hollywood actor and he is back on Netflix in the latest season of Umbrella Academy, and also coming to Electric Picnic this August.

Portlaoise actor and author Robert Sheehan will be at Electric Picnic to speak about his new book Playing Dead, meditation and life, with comedian and actor Dylan Moran.

He is also back on screens worldwide for the anticipated fourth and final season of Umbrella Academy, along with fellow cast members Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H. Min, Ritu Arya, and Colm Feore. Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, and David Cross also join the final season.  More below trailer.

Based on the comic series of the same name by Gerard Way, The Umbrella Academy premiered in 2019 and follows a group of estranged siblings with superpowers who are reunited after the death of their father.

Last season ended with a major twist: There’s a new timeline dictated by the family patriarch, Reginald (Colm Feore), and the siblings no longer have their powers. That’s not the only oddity in this timeline, where the stakes are higher than ever before — there are new enemies who want to see them wiped from existence, but how do they face their enemies without their powers? And will the siblings ever get them back? 

Electric Picnic welcomes Sheehan for the first time this year, taking place for the 20th year in Stradbally which is just 10 minutes from his home town. He is amongst a huge Mindfield lineup, on The Manifesto stage, he will share insights from his new book Playing Dead about meditation, his life and the world, with fellow actor and standup comedian, Dylan Moran.