NUI Honorary Conferring Ceremony . .Thursday, 2 December 2010 - NUI, 49 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. ..Pictured at the  NUI Honorary Conferring Ceremony were.Letf to right;.. . .The National University of Ireland, 49 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 on Thursday 2 December at 3.30pm, the following will be conferred with honorary degrees:. .Brendan Gleeson                  Actor                                  .Professor Richard Milner     Nuclear Physicist, MIT                         .Dr Garrett O'Connor             President of the Betty Ford Centre.     . .Biographical details:..Brendan Gleeson.Born in Dublin, Brendan Gleeson was involved with the Dublin Shakespeare Festival as a schoolboy. On graduating from UCD with a BA and HDipinEd, he continued with theatre, as well as making a living as a secondary-level teacher of English and Drama. He acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford upon Avon, for two seasons. He made his acting debut on screen as a quarryman in The Field (1990). He had several small roles in major Hollywood movies based in Ireland, such as Far and Away (1992) and Into the West (1992). Played Michael Collins in The Treaty (1991) (TV). Made his breakthrough in Scottish themed Braveheart (1995), which was largely filmed in Ireland, opposite Mel Gibson. He played Gibson's right-hand man &quot;Hamish&quot;..Since then, he has appeared in numerous major films such as Mission: Impossible II (2000), Lake Placid (1999), Turbulence (1997). He has made a name for himself taking the titular role in The General (1998), based on the life of Irish criminal &quot;Martin Cahill&quot;, for which he won the Boston Society of Film Critics Award. He appears in director John Boorman's film The Tailor of Panama (2001) as well as Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York (2002) and Steven Spielberg's Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)..Brendan Gleeson appeared in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallo