Rory Cowan Joins River Dance

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Rory Cowan is an Irish actor and entertainer best known for portraying Rory Brown in Mrs Brown's Boys since 2001, and Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie in 2014. Cowan has worked with Brendan O'Carroll (Mrs Brown) since 1992.
Cowan's mother wanted him to go into banking, but Cowan deliberately failed his maths exam in order to avoid this.He then worked in a record shop owned by EMI, eventually becoming marketing manager of the holding company in Ireland While there, he managed Christy Dignam and the drag act Mr Pussy, and first saw Brendan O'Carroll in performance. After being made redundant in 1992, he was asked to book an act for a venue that would bring in similar crowds to those that had accompanied Mr Pussy and Dignam; and suggested O'Carroll. As a result of this, he became O'Carroll's publicist, and has worked alongside him well into the 2010s.Soon afterwards, O'Carroll developed the Mrs Brown routine, creating the character of Rory Brown specifically for Cowan, although at first, Cowan did not take on the role as he was simply "the logistics man" who organised shows and bookings. The character of Rory Brown originally appeared in the radio slots, and was originally played on stage by another actor who resigned at short notice. As a result, Cowan, despite never having acted in front of an audience before, was asked to take on the role by O'Carroll, and his deliberately camp performance quickly became the definitive portrayal.In July 2017 Cowan announced he had quit Mrs Brown's Boys.
In 2016 Cowan and Deirdre O'Kane were signed up to the Irish version of Gogglebox, screened by TV3.

Mrs Brown's Boys star Rory Cowan has revealed why he decided to leave the hit show after 26 years.
And he insists the split from Brendan O'Carroll's comedy troupe has been completely "amicable".
The Dubliner, who played Agnes' son Rory in the show, took to the stage with Mrs Brown's Boys for the final time at London's O2 Arena on Sunday.
Rory told the Irish Mirror: “I got tired of it, I haven’t been happy for the last two years working there.
“There was no row with Brendan, there was no dispute over money or anything, in fact quite the opposite, I got so well paid that it enabled me to be able to leave, I didn’t need to stay.”
"Touring is a young man's game and he just wanted to take some time off to reassess what he would do with the rest of his life," his agent told Mirror Online.

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