Actor Steve Flynn has lead role in indie film shot in Maine.

Maine actor Steve Flynn of Windham was a member of the cast of Martin Scorsese’s mob epic “The Departed,” which won this year’s Academy Award for best picture. He played a detective in the award-winning movie, acting in scenes with Martin Sheen.

A Screen Actor’s Guild actor, Flynn has several film credits in his portfolio, including work in the HBO movie “Empire Falls,” with scenes with Joanne Woodward, Ed Harris and Bill Fichtner. He also had a role as a mobster in the film “Stiffs.”

He has also done several TV commercials and has done print work for Orvis, Swany Luggage and the L.L. Bean catalog.

Most recently, in Maine this past summer, Flynn was cast in the lead role of Matthew in “Barefoot Country Girl,” an independent film shot on location in Maine – with 150 Maine actors, extras and 38 Maine musicians who have donated more than 40 original country songs for the film project.

The Countryfolk Films Project wrapped up shooting last December at Coos Canyon on the Swift River in Byron, and is currently in post production with a tentative release date of this summer. All proceeds from the DVD feature-length movie will help support youth music scholarships at the Maine Countryfolk Music Theatre in East Dixfield.

“We had a wonderful cast with the ‘Barefoot’ shoot, and it was a great exerience working with Larry Bisbee (director) and my co-stars Robin Moore of Livermore Falls, Victor Leclerc and Jim Merrill of Lewiston and, of course, the young actors, Abbie Goldberg of Bethel, Carl Zurhorst of Rumford, Tim Ryan of Lisbon ( HBO’s ‘Empire Falls’) and Melissa Lynn of Biddeford,” Flynn said in a prepared release.

“Steve is our most heralded actor in the film and he was a delight to work with,” said Bisbee, director of the Countryfolk Music Theatre. “He had good insight on his character and inspired several of the other actors to pursue their acting dreams.”

Flynn’s daughter, Kayleigh, is also in the film, Bisbee noted.