Biography
Born Dunmurry 1967. Industrious, practised, stage and occasional screen actor, who began her career shortly after graduating from St. Andrews University in 1988.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Best Before
2024
Helena and Lainie head into their final round of IVF treatment and the stresses of the unknown begin to put pressure on their idyllic farm life. With ...
Peat
2024
as Anne Byrne
Anne Byrne, recently widowed, lives with her useless adult son. She’s left juggling housework and the bog, until her witchy neighbour suggests buildin...
The Teacher
2024
as Rachel Cohen
A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his ...
Baltimore
2024
as Lady Beit
Based on actual events that took place on 26 April 1974, former debutante turned IRA member Rose Dugdale and three comrades carried out an armed raid ...
Dead Shot
2023
as Fiadh
In the 1970s, a member of the IRA takes over an Active Service Unit in London after his wife is accidentally shot dead in Ireland. The unit's mission ...
Boys from County Hell
2021
as Pauline Bogue
A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering Father and Son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.
Sadie
2021
as Mairead
Filmed at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast for BBC's Lights Up season of theatrical films, David Ireland's play concerns Sadie, a sharp tongued Belfast clea...
End of Sentence
2019
as Anna Fogle
Newly widowed Frank Fogle embarks on a journey to Ireland to scatter his late wife’s ashes. His estranged son, Sean, recently released from prison, ag...
Cyprus Avenue
2019
as Bernie Miller
David Ireland's award-winning dark comedy about sectarian hatred in Northern Ireland. Eric Miller, a Belfast loyalist, mistakes his five-week-old gran...
Stella Days
2012
as Mother
A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new ...
Wild Decembers
2009
as Rita
The film, based on the novel of the same title by Edna O'Brien, is a dark story about love and land set in County Clare in the West of Ireland.
Five Minutes of Heaven
2009
as Sarah
The story of former Ulster Volunteer Force member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffin's brother, the media arrange an a...
Ella Enchanted
2004
as Tour Guide
Ella lives in a magical world in which each child, at the moment of their birth, is given a virtuous "gift" from a fairy godmother. Ella's so-called g...
Evelyn
2002
as Sister Brigid
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in t...
Gold In The Streets
1997
as Breda
An Irish immigrant lands in the Bronx, working at an Italian-owned bar while living with fellow undocumented immigrants. Fears of deportation and unce...
Belly Laugh
N/A
Follows Jo, an introverted young woman who—after being broken up with her boyfriend before she can tell him she’s pregnant—turns to standup comedy to ...