The Patient

On the surface, "Sam Fortner," portrayed by Domhnall Gleeson, seems like a shy, likable young man — someone you wouldn’t look at twice. Underneath his quiet exterior lurks a dangerous unpredictability that he tries to manage through therapy with Dr. Alan Strauss.&nbsp;

Career Highlights

Domhnall Gleeson&nbsp;will next be seen in David Mandel’s&nbsp;White House Plumbers&nbsp;for HBO, in which he plays John Dean opposite Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux as Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy. Most recently, Gleeson&nbsp;appeared in&nbsp;Frank of Ireland&nbsp;for Channel 4 and Amazon, a series he also co-produced and wrote with Michael Moloney and his brother Brian Gleeson, and in&nbsp;Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, a sequel to the international blockbuster&nbsp;Peter Rabbit, again opposite Rose Byrne and James Corden.&nbsp; &nbsp;Previously,&nbsp;Gleeson&nbsp;starred opposite Merritt Wever in&nbsp;Run&nbsp;for HBO.&nbsp;His films include&nbsp;Star Wars:&nbsp;The Rise of Skywalker,&nbsp;Star Wars: The Last Jedi and&nbsp;Star Wars: The Force Awakens;&nbsp;The Kitchen&nbsp;opposite Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss; Lenny Abrahamson’s&nbsp;The Little Stranger&nbsp;opposite Ruth Wilson;&nbsp;Simon Curtis’ Goodbye Christopher Robin&nbsp;opposite Margot Robbie;&nbsp;American Made&nbsp;opposite Tom Cruise for Doug Liman; Darren Aronofsky’s&nbsp;Mother!;&nbsp;&nbsp;David Wain’s A Futile &amp; Stupid Gesture; John Crowley’s&nbsp;Brooklyn; Alejandro Iñárritu’s&nbsp;The Revenant; Alex Garland’s&nbsp;Ex Machina;&nbsp;Angelina Jolie’s&nbsp;Unbroken; Lenny Abrahamson’s&nbsp;Frank; Richard Curtis’ About Time; and Joe Wright’s&nbsp;Anna Karenina.Gleeson starred in a sold-out run of Enda Walsh’s play&nbsp;Medicine&nbsp;at New York’s St. Ann’s Warehouse in late 2021, garnering rave reviews for his performance and the production. He was nominated for a Tony Award® for his Broadway debut in Martin McDonagh’s&nbsp;Lieutenant of Inishmore.

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Underneath his quiet exterior lurks a dangerous unpredictability that he tries to manage through therapy with Dr. Alan Strauss. 

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Domhnall Gleeson as Sam Fortner in The Patient on FX

The Patient