O'Brien is also one of the English adaptation writers for the popular series, Naruto. O'Brien is usually cast in unusual roles; as such, he tends to play characters who show signs of insanity or are evil geniuses. Some of those include: Gaara from Naruto, Lloyd from Code Geass, Isaac from Castlevania: Curse Of Darkness, Lezard from Valkyrie Profile 2, Grimoire Weiss from Nier, Kain from Final Fantasy IV, Caius Ballad from Final Fantasy XIII-2, Dist from Tales of the Abyss, Asura from Asura's Wrath and Akihiko Sanada from Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3. He was nominated for Best Actor in a Comedy by the American Anime Awards for his work in Comic Party, DNA Squared, and Girls Bravo, but lost to fellow Naruto and Shin Megami Tensei: Persona voice actor Dave Wittenberg. He is also the voice of Wonderful Pistachios.
O'Brien attended Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School in Ruislip and St Joan of Arc Catholic School in Rickmansworth and started his football career as a striker with Ruislip Rangers, one of the longest established youth football clubs in Middlesex. He admitted he became a goalkeeper by accident and commented that he "started off as a pretty average striker and then I wasn't getting into the team. The team were playing a tournament and didn't have a goalkeeper so I had a try. Once I went in I liked it and did quite well". He later signed schoolboy terms at Championship side Queens Park Rangers, the club he supports.
O'Brien was educated at Fordham and Manhattan College. He had been a poet, a cartoonist and labor organizer before World War II, when he served in the Signal Corps. After the war, he headed to Hollywood, where his younger brother Edmond O'Brien was already an established star. He became an overnight success six years later when his first screenplay, the romantic comedy Here Comes the Groom, with Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman, earned him an Oscar nomination in 1951.
The following year, his play The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker became a Broadway hit featuring Burgess Meredith. This romantic comedy was filmed by 20th Century Fox in 1959 with Clifton Webb in the title role. The play remains popular in amateur theatres, partly because there are so many roles to be filled: the industrialist Mr. Pennypacker is a loveable bigamist with 17 children.
O'Brien is a surname of Irish origin which has many variants in the Irish diaspora worldwide, such as O'Bryan, O'Brian, O'Briant, O'Brient, O'Bryant, O'Brine, O'Bryen etc., which all claim a general common ancestry with the original Gaelic surname being Ó Briain or Uí Briain. Notable people with the surname include:
CriticalRole started as a birthday present for Liam O'Brien, who wanted to find a friend group to play "Dungeons & Dragons." ... O'Brien said that when there are differences of opinion, the team remembers they have a common goal.
Now, four cofounders — Liam O'Brien, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, and Travis Willingham — told Business Insider their crew is ready to roll out its road map for 2025 and beyond ... "We've been gamers our entire lives," O'Brien said.
Prosecutor Liam O'Brien said it was by 'pure chance' that one of the former students who French claimed she had met with for a meal, ended up bumping into another member of staff at the school ... Mr O'Brien said ... The judge said. 'This is a very sad case ... .
You think you've heard it all. And then...People weren't blind to this. red flags were raised ... Most of these details came from a four-year investigation conducted by RTÉRadio's DocumentaryOn One team and its producers, Ronan Kelly and Liam O'Brien.
You might change a family's life ...It’s rare for anyone outside of the authorities to get up close to an investigation like this, but with the agreement of the gardaí and the Jónsson family that’s exactly what producer Liam O’Brien was able to do.
No one outside of the authorities and the Jónsson family was aware of the search, except podcast producer Liam O’Brien, who was present for the entire operation, sending updates to the family.
