Biography
Eva Birthistle (born 1974 in Bray, Co. Wicklow) is an Irish actress, best known for her role in Ae Fond Kiss. She won the London Film Critics Circle British Actress of the Year award in 2004 and has twice won the IFTA Best Actress in a Leading Role (Film) award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eva Birthistle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Kathleen is Here
2024
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
18-year-old Kathleen is fresh out of foster care. Her departure coincides with the death of her biological mother, so she returns to her hometown to t...
Kathleen Was Here
2020
Executive Producer, Director, Writer
Kathleen is 18 and alone. The system has no place for her now. What does the future hold when the past is all you've got? This visually arresting and ...
The Delinquent Season
2018
as Danielle
In Dublin, two couples (Jim and Danielle; Yvonne and Chris) are seemingly living in marital bliss. However, when Chris's behaviour begins to change, Y...
The Circuit
2016
as Nat
Newly arrived in town Nat and Gabe accept a dinner invitation from the volatile Hungarian Helene and her boorish husband Sasha. Whilst the other guest...
Brooklyn
2015
as Georgina
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Swansong
2015
as Karen Prince
He was once a pop star with adoring fans, now even his wife's left him for another woman. So he's kidnapped them both and is driving out of London wit...
Noble
2014
as Sister Laura
Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
Day of the Flowers
2013
as Rosa
Two young, strong-willed Scottish sisters, one a left-wing activist, the other a most-popular-girl-in-school type, take their late father's ashes to C...
The Psychopath Next Door
2013
as Marianne Moran
She drops in and starts disrupting this close, cozy little community. She wants to be queen bee But there's already one. so she sets out to destroy he...
Life's a Breeze
2013
as Margaret
An unemployed slacker, his aged mother and his niece must overcome their many differences to find a lost fortune.
Wake Wood
2011
as Louise
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
The Children
2008
as Elaine
A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents
The Daisy Chain
2008
as Cat
A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to beco...
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
2008
as Saskia
J'accuse is an 'essay-istic' documentary in which Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of...
Save Angel Hope
2007
as Renee Frye
Con artists profit from a charity campaign to raise money for a fictitious hospital.
Nightwatching
2007
as Saskia
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murder...
Middletown
2007
as Caroline
Having spent most of his life in religious instruction, Gabriel returns to his hometown as its new preacher. The town is full of drinkers and gamblers...
Reverb
2007
as Maddy
A rock musician, in need for a hit album, locks himself and his band up overnight inside a recording studio. While sampling an old recording with a sp...
Imagine Me & You
2006
as Edie
During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel...
Breakfast on Pluto
2005
as Eily Bergin
In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother...
Ae Fond Kiss...
2004
as Roisin Hanlon
A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.
Mystics
2003
as Samantha
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Sunday
2002
as Maura Young
Sunday tells the story of an infamous day in Derry, North of Ireland and how the events of that day were subsequently covered up by the British Govern...
Borstal Boy
2001
as Liz Joyce
Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old IRA foot soldier, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission i...
Saltwater
2000
as Deborah McCeever
An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and he's severely in debt. His oldest son tries to help, ...
The American
1998
as Noemie Nioche
After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to France is search of cultural treasures. He won't get ...
Getting Close
1998
as Jane
It's been two weeks. Jane can't get Philip out of her head. There would be fewer problems with a single man, but she's getting close.
Miracle at Midnight
1998
as Karin
Gripping historical drama presents a triumphant celebration of the human spirit. The true-life story of how one Danish family risked their lives in a ...
All Souls' Day
1997
The date was November 2nd, All Soul's Day, when Nicole's naked body was found on the beach. Seven years on, Nicole's mother Madie, obsessed with findi...