13 things about University College Dublin alum Dr. Noel Fitzpatrick

Dr. Martin Noel Galgani Fitzpatrick is an Irish man born in Ballyfin, Caounty Laois, Ireland to Sean Fitzpatrick and Rita Fitzpatrick. The village is around 102.5 kilometers away from Dublin, Ireland.

Sean is a farmer. He and Rita have six children together including Noel.

BIOGRAPHY

Fitzpatrich is a veterinary surgeon and an actor. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. In 1990, he graduated from University College Dublin (UCB) in Dublin.
2. In 2001, he played Bill in an episode of the television series “London’s Burning”.
3. In 2003, he broke up with Cathy Dennis, a songwriter, and he played Crawford in the film “Ghost Rig”.
4. Released on January 12, 2004, Britney Spears‘ song “Toxic” was written by Dennis and inspired by him.
5. In 2004, he played Dr. David Fowler in the film “Live for the Moment”.
6. In 2005, he played Iain Greer in an episode of the TV series “Casualty”.
7. He played Inspector Beckett in the 2008 film “Framed”.
8. In 2009, he successfully applied an amputation prosthesis to a cat that had lost both hind feet in an accident.
9. In 2014, the Guinness World Records recognized him as the first veterinary surgeon to apply an amputation prosthesis to a cat.
10. In November 2014, he received the UCD Alumni Award for veterinary medicine.
11. He was the subject of the TV series “The Supervet”, which aired on Channel 4 from 2014 to 2019.
12. In 2017, the British Small Animal Veterinary Association presented him with the Blaine Award for creating more than 30 new techniques in the field.
13. On December 13, 2024, he turned 57.