REEL NEWS/Michael Dwyer

After playing the eponymous criminal in The General, the busy Irish actor Brendan Gleeson is set to play another gangster known as The Monk. However, this character is an Irish-American operating out of New York City in the 1860s, and the role is a key one in Martin Scorsese's $100 million production, Gangs of New York, which starts filming shortly at Cinecitta Studios in Rome. Gleeson joins a cast that includes Daniel Day-Lewis in his first film for four years, Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz.

The picture is a still from Braveheart, another film that featured this amazing character actor.