09-05-2025
Actress Helen Behan: I call Stephen Graham my ‘brother'
When Helen Behan and Brendan Gleeson were jointly given honorary fellowships by the nursing faculty of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in February, she had a confession to make to the older actor. Behan, who started acting after a chance encounter in a pub in Co Meath, could not shrug off her feeling of impostor syndrome. 'I wandered in off the street into acting,' she told him. 'I have this guilt because other people train really hard and maybe don't get the opportunities I did.' Gleeson was having none of it. 'You have to park that feeling,' he replied. 'Accept it and get on with life.'
Behan was being honoured for her services as a nurse while Gleeson was being recognised for
