Brid Brennan

Brid Brennan

1955-01-01 Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK 40 Credits

Biography

Bríd Brennan is a Belfast born actress known for her work on the stage and screen.

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Aontas

Aontas

2025

as Cáit

Acting

Three unlikely women rob a rural Irish Credit Union. A backwards chronology unravels what went wrong.

Room Taken

Room Taken

2023

as Victoria

6.9
Acting

When a man, new to Ireland, experiences homelessness and needs a place to sleep, he secretly takes up residence in the home of an elderly blind woman,...

National Theatre Live: Dixon and Daughters

National Theatre Live: Dixon and Daughters

2023

as Mary

Acting

Mary has just been released from prison. She wants to come home and forget all about it but Briana has other ideas. Over a tumultuous two days a fami...

My Sailor, My Love

My Sailor, My Love

2022

as Annie

6.2
Acting

The thorny relationship between a woman and her retired father worsens after he becomes romantically involved with the housekeeper she hires for him.

Doineann

Doineann

2021

as Labhaoise

6.0
Acting

When Tomás returns to his remote island holiday home he discovers his reclusive wife and child have vanished. With nowhere to turn and a storm approac...

Calm with Horses

Calm with Horses

2020

as Maire Mirkin

6.2
Acting

In darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Douglas 'Arm' Armstrong has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family, whilst also trying to be...

Phoenix

Phoenix

2020

Acting

Anton is about to lose the two most important women in his life but it takes the story of the king's son to make him face his fate.

Lost Lives

Lost Lives

2019

6.0
Acting

This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Stalker

Stalker

2019

as Diane

Acting

In the remote Scottish Highlands an aging stalker sets his wits and grit against a poacher who is taking the heads of his best stags.

Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins

2016

as Kitty

6.7
Acting

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

The Truth Commissioner

The Truth Commissioner

2016

as Catherine Gilroy

4.5
Acting

Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplom...

Brooklyn

Brooklyn

2015

as Miss Kelly

7.3
Acting

In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.

Henry V - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

Henry V - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

2012

as Queen Isabel

7.0
Acting

Shakespeare’s masterpiece of the turbulence of war and the arts of peace tells the romantic story of Henry’s campaign to recapture the English possess...

Shadow Dancer

Shadow Dancer

2012

as Ma

5.9
Acting

In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.

Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne

Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne

2009

as Theresa Byrne

6.3
Acting

Born in London to single mum Bridget, Austin Byrne returns with her to her hometown in Ireland as a very young boy and learns that, from family to nei...

James Ellis: An Actor's Life

James Ellis: An Actor's Life

2007

as Herself

Acting

Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.

Sunday

Sunday

2002

as Mrs Young

7.4
Acting

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...

Topsy-Turvy

Topsy-Turvy

1999

as Mad Woman

6.6
Acting

After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Th...

Felicia's Journey

Felicia's Journey

1999

as Mrs Lysaght

6.3
Acting

Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager ...

Dancing at Lughnasa

Dancing at Lughnasa

1998

as Agnes 'Aggie' Mundy

5.9
Acting

Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.

Trojan Eddie

Trojan Eddie

1996

as Betty

5.3
Acting

Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather tha...

Words Upon the Window Pane

Words Upon the Window Pane

1994

as Stella

Acting

In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel...

Guinevere

Guinevere

1994

as Morgan L'Fei

1.5
Acting

As border wars break out in Camelot, the young princess Guinevere is taken to live in safety with the High Priestess L'Fei. When King Arthur claims th...

Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler

1993

as Thea Elvsted

Acting

Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up...

Tell Tale Hearts

1992

as Sally McCann

Acting

Anthony Steadman, a child murderer, is being released from prison after 17 years. Sally McCann, a mother whose child disappeared around the time of th...

Ghostwatch

Ghostwatch

1992

as Pamela Early

7.0
Acting

For Halloween 1992, the BBC decides to broadcast an investigation into the supernatural, hosted by TV chat-show legend Michael Parkinson. Parky (assis...

'Itch

1991

as Susan Turnbull

Acting

A lone hitch hiker, marooned near a housing estate, has a dramatic effect on the lives of those around him.

Who Bombed Birmingham?

Who Bombed Birmingham?

1990

as Sister of IRA man

7.0
Acting

Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted t...

She's Been Away

She's Been Away

1989

as Lillian's Nurse

5.4
Acting

A woman who has been institutionalized for 60 years for the "crime" of not conforming to the 1920s image of what a proper young woman should be (in ot...

Lorna

Lorna

1987

as Lorna Martin

Acting

In the follow-up to Graham Reid’s trilogy of ‘Billy’ plays, Billy's sister Lorna Martin is left to care for their Uncle Andy. Lorna feels trapped, but...

Up Line

Up Line

1987

as Grace O'Brien

Acting

Three alternative comedians get involved in a pyramid-selling organization, Pathway, in order to finance their act. They gain great success by deployi...

The Playboy of the Western World

1985

as Pegeen Mike

Acting

A story of love, rivalry and betrayal – Synge’s best-known work is a must-see from this multi-award winning company.' Synge’s great comic masterpiece...

Four Days in July

Four Days in July

1984

as Colette

6.4
Acting

Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.

Anne Devlin

Anne Devlin

1984

as Anne Devlin

5.0
Acting

The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803, told exclusively from the woman's point of view.

A Coming to Terms for Billy

A Coming to Terms for Billy

1984

as Lorna Martin

Acting

Belfast, 1980: July, the marching season ... Norman Martin, away for two years, returns with his 'English woman', Mavis. How will the family - particu...

A Matter of Choice for Billy

A Matter of Choice for Billy

1983

as Lorna Martin

4.0
Acting

Belfast 1978: the Martin family, a year on. Norman is away in England, and his eldest son, Billy, and daughter, Lorna, are in charge of their younger ...

Too Late to Talk to Billy

Too Late to Talk to Billy

1982

as Lorna Martin

Acting

Relationships are strained in a Belfast family, particularly between a father and his son. First in a multi-year trilogy.

The Ballroom of Romance

The Ballroom of Romance

1982

as Patty Byrne

7.2
Acting

A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.

Maeve

Maeve

1981

as Roisin

6.4
Acting

Maeve returns home to Belfast after a long absence. Her arrival in the city stimulates a series of memories of childhood and adolescence both in herse...

Excalibur

Excalibur

1981

as Lady in Waiting

7.0
Acting

A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his K...