Colm Meaney has revealed he didn’t encourage his daughter, Brenda to venture into acting - as the duo team up to do a play this summer.
Colm admitted he was against Brenda doing commercial ads as a kid, but now they will both act in a production called Bedbound.
When Brenda, who grew up between New York and LA, decided she wanted to act, her father encouraged her to go to college, and Brenda went on to be accepted into the prestigious Yale University.
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Colm told Ryan Tubridy on his RTE Radio One show yesterday: "As a kid In LA, you always have people saying, ‘Oh, she could do commercials'.
"And we always kept her away from that.
"Even as a teenager she did some plays at school and she was very good. But we tried to discourage it.
"Simply because your Mam and Dad are actors, it doesn’t mean that you have to be one, I feel.
"There are so many really fascinating professions out there."
The Star Trek actor returns to the Irish stage after 40 years for the play, which opens in Galway in July, as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.
Colm said: "I read the play and found it both terrifying and fascinating."
Fans can also see the play at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin in August.
The Snapper star previously opened up to The Irish Mirror about working with Brenda in the play.
He said: "My daughter, she is in New York.
"She is an actress, and she brought this play to me late last year with a director attached. It’s a wonderful piece of writing."
Colm said he wasn’t worried about working with his talented daughter, saying: "Don’t worry, she’ll tell me what to do. You know what daughters are like."
He told Ryan that he still missed his mother, Kathleen, who passed away five years ago, aged 94.
He said: "She always made me laugh. She was always looking out for me.
"I still think during the day - ‘I must give the mother a call'."
