Barry McGovern (born 1948) is an Irish stage, film and television actor.
McGovern is a former member of the RTÉ Players and the Abbey Theatre Company.
He has worked in theatre, film, radio and television, as well as written music for many shows, and co-written two musicals and directed plays and operas.
He is known internationally for his award-winning one-man Beckett shows I'll Go On and Watt which the Gate Theatre presented at the 1985 and 2010 Dublin Theatre Festival respectively.
[citation needed] McGovern revived "I'll Go On" for a run at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City for L.A.'s Center Theatre Group in 2014.