Sean Boru (born Desmond Patrick Bruen; 20 March 1953, in Dublin, Ireland – 14 February 2011, in Essex, United Kingdom) was an Irish actor and author. Career In 2005 Boru wrote a stage show called And over here on the left which is a one-man show in which he played the character of a tour guide. Turning the theatre into the bus, he used a mix of film, still pictures, and 3D images, projected onto the stage and a screen, for the audience to focus on. Boru went to Hollywood in 2006 to film a contribution, as a biographer, to a documentary made by the E! Entertainment channel, about Michael Carroll, as part of the E! True Hollywood Story series on lottery winners. In the film Jack Said (2009) Boru had a small part. Pete Doherty asked him to ghostwrite his autobiography in early 2009; after months of negotiations Boru declined the offer on the grounds that the model Kate Moss was concerned about her private life being exposed. After many emails from her lawyers, and talks with mutual friends of Moss, Boru made the decision to not proceed. In 2009 he was asked by film director Liam Galvin to play a part in the film Killer Bitch in which he played a porn film maker murdered by former football bad boy Jason Marriner. Personal life Boru was a regular visitor to his native Dublin. He was a full member of the prestigious Lillie's Bordello, which is a known haunt of celebrities. He was a regular visitor to the Cannes Film Festival in France. Sean Boru lived in Halstead, Essex, near the end of his life and was separated from his second wife Lesley; he has 5 children. He wrote a regular 2 page column in all of the 45 magazines issued monthly by the Fish Publishing Group, the magazines are at the high end of Life Style magazines covering 5 counties, Herts, Bucks, London, Essex and Kent. The readership is an estimated 2 million people, a full account of the magazines are at www.life-mags.com Cancer Boru was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer (Hodgkins Lymphoma) in 1998, 2000 and 2002. He received radiotherapy the first 2 times, then chemotherapy. He filmed the second and third treatments with the intention to help other patients and their relatives to understand the procedures. During his 3rd treatment Boru wrote his autobiography as a private