Larry Mullen Jr. He has an elder sister, Cecilia, and had a younger sister, Mary, who died in 1973. He attended the School of Music in Chatham Row to learn piano at the age of eight and, then, began drumming in 1971, at the age of 9, under the instruction of Irish drummer Joe Bonnie. After Joe's death, Bonnie's daughter, Monica, took over from him. But Mullen gave up the lessons and started playing by himself. His mother died in a car accident in 1976. Before founding U2, Mullen was involved for three weeks, on the suggestion of his father, in a Dublin
Marie Mullen Marie Mullen Marie Mullen (born 1953) is an Irish actress and co-founder of the Druid Theatre Company. She is best known for her performance in the 1998 production of "The Beauty Queen of Leenane", for which she received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Mullen is from Drumfin, south Sligo. She said that she wanted "to try to be an actor from when I was in secondary school." Garry Hynes recalls meeting Mullen at Dramsoc at UCG in 1971, when they were both 17, and casting her in "The Loves of Cass Maguire." She attended NUI Galway