Oisín Stack is an Irish actor. He played

Kat Moon Kathleen "Kat" Slater (also Moon) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'', played by Jessie Wallace. She is also played by Kate Peck in a flashback in 2001 and Sumar-Elise Sandford in a flashback in 2018. Kat is the sec ...

's long-lost son,

Dermott Dolan '' Kat & Alfie: Redwater'' (also known as ''Redwater'') is a British-Irish drama series that started on RTÉ One on 14 May 2017 and BBC One on 18 May 2017. It is based around two characters from ''EastEnders'', Kat (Jessie Wallace) and Alfie Mo ...

, in the ''

EastEnders ''EastEnders'' is a Television in the United Kingdom, British soap opera created by Julia Smith (producer), Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since February 1985. Set in the fictional borough of Walford in the Ea ...

'' spin-off series '' Kat and Alfie: Redwater'' and Elliot in Absentia.

Early life

Stack was born to an Irish father and French mother, and was brought up by his mother in

Arklow Arklow (; ; , ) is a town in County Wicklow on the southeast coast of Ireland. The town is overlooked by Ballymoyle Hill. It was founded by the Vikings in the ninth century. Arklow was the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the 1798 re ...

, County Wicklow. At the age of 11, they moved to

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...

and 18 months later they moved to

Chichester Chichester () is a cathedral city and civil parish in West Sussex, England.OS Explorer map 120: Chichester, South Harting and Selsey Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton B2 edition. Publishing Date:2009. It is the only ci ...

. Stack decided he wanted to be an actor at an early age but drama school in the United Kingdom was too expensive so he auditioned for French drama schools and got a place at the

Paris Conservatoire The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...

Career

Stack's early acting career was based mainly in France, Spain and Chile. He appeared in the French crime comedy film '' The Family'' in 2013, and the 2014 remake of '' Rosemary's Baby'', as well as a Russian production, ''

Mata Hari Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 187615 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari (), was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. She was executed ...

''. Stack signed up to a UK-Irish agent and a few months later, in March 2016, he was cast as

in the ''

'' spin-off series '' Kat & Alfie: Redwater'', two weeks before he started filming. This was Stack's first Irish television role and his first "villain" role, as usually plays "romantic" or "best friend" roles.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stack, Oisín Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Irish male actors Conservatoire de Paris alumni Irish male film actors Irish male television actors Irish people of French descent Male actors from County Wicklow