He is an Irish writer and director, born in Ballyclare, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He attended the Belfast College of Art for a year before enrolling at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. He worked as an advertising art director in Australia, after working as a storyboard artist in London. He then moved to New York and made his directing debut with Everything in This Country Must (2004). He's most known for Killer Elite (2011).