Many will be rooting for Barry Keoghan to bag an Oscar over in America tonight, thanks to his stellar performance in The Banshees of Inisherin alongside Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell.
But a win for the Irish star would also mark an incredible conclusion to a rags-to-riches style story that could easily be the plot of a Hollywood movie.
The talented actor, 30, had a very different start in life compared to many of his industry peers, with the dad-of-one spending several years of his childhood in foster care thanks to the death of his mother.
