Biography
Denise Gough is an Irish actress. She was born in Ennis, County Clare and is the elder sister of the actress Kelly Gough. She graduated from the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in 2003. She is notable for her work in theatre and television, including the play The Painter and Messiah V: The Rapture.
Known For
Complete Filmography

National Theatre Live: People, Places and Things
2024
as Emma
Emma was having the time of her life. Now she’s in rehab. Her first step is to admit that she has a problem. But the problem isn’t with Emma, it’s wit...

Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
2022
as Dedra Meero (archive footage) (uncredited)
Celebrate Disney+ Day with a special look at the Star Wars original series Andor.

Fireworks
2022
as Ellie Sherberg
This tense thriller, with moments of dark humor, is set in an MI6 Ops Room and uses cutting edge Virtual Production technology to tell its story.

Martyrs Lane
2021
as Sarah
Leah, 10, has terrible nightmares. Her mother seems distant somehow, lost in her thoughts. A small, nightly visitor brings Leah comfort, but soon Lea...

Monday
2020
as Chloe
A spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling, but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?

The Good Traitor
2020
as Charlotte Kauffmann
The Danish ambassador to Washington declares himself to be the sole representative of a free Denmark during the Nazi occupation of the country.

What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?
2020
as Narrator
Tony Slattery examines his Mental Health and Alcoholism and looks for a diagnosis.
A Separate Peace
2020
as Doctor
Set in a private nursing home, The smooth running of the home and the peace of mind of its staff is disrupted by the arrival of a patient, John Brown....

The Other Lamb
2020
as Sarah
For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she l...

The Kid Who Would Be King
2019
as Mrs. Elliot
Old-school magic meets the modern world when young Alex stumbles upon the mythical sword Excalibur. He soon unites his friends and enemies, and they b...

A Dark Place
2018
as Linda Connolly
When a young boy turns up dead in a sleepy Pennsylvania town, a local sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a precarious and ...

Colette
2018
as Missy
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France...

Juliet, Naked
2018
as Gina
Annie is stuck in a long-term relationship with Duncan – an obsessive fan of obscure rocker Tucker Crowe. When the acoustic demo of Tucker's hit recor...

National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika
2017
as Harper Pitt/The Angel Africanii
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and ...

National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
2017
as Harper Pitt/Martin Heller
The National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's two-part play 'Angels In America' about New Yorkers grappling with the AIDS crisis...

NADIA
2017
as Lisa Phillips
Nadia is a troubled teen girl kicked out of home by her surpassed mother and has nobody to turn to, until her High School's Principal Mr. Green discov...

Further Beyond
2016
as Voice Over 1
In their debut documentary Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor take as their point of departure the compelling 18th Century figure, Ambrose O'Higgins, and...

'71
2014
as Lillian Hughes
A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.

Jimmy's Hall
2014
as Tess
Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.

The Duchess of Malfi
2014
as Julia
The widowed Duchess of Malfi longs to marry her lover, the steward Antonio. But her rancorous brothers, Ferdinand and the Cardinal, are implacably opp...

Complicit
2013
An MI5 officer's attempts to foil a possible terrorist plot are undermined by bureaucracy and moral dilemmas. Will he make the world a safer place or ...
Waxwing
2013
as Mum
Waxwing is a story about the hunger a small boy has to connect with someone who can help him learn about his inner world and the world outside too – a...

Desire
2010
as Marcia
Late at night, a desperate woman escapes mysterious pursuers through a bored man's house -- a dream like event that leads to obsession, transgression,...

Robin Hood
2010
as Village Mother
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Rober...

The Kid
2010
as Patsy
Based on the real life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his descent into a life of crime and the way he put his life tog...

The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
2008
as Michelle
After Tom Hurndall is shot in the head in Gaza, his parents Anthony and Jocelyn arrive in Israel wanting to know how it could have happened. They expe...
The Chain
N/A
A man's daughter is viciously attacked by a dog, setting off a chain of events that ends in unspeakable tragedy.

Call Me Queen
N/A
The film depicts a friendship between an Irish journalist in Kenya and a Rwandan woman, who pair up to combat the AIDS crisis in the 1990s.