Biography
Bríd Brennan is a Belfast born actress known for her work on the stage and screen.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Aontas
2025
as Cáit
Three unlikely women rob a rural Irish Credit Union. A backwards chronology unravels what went wrong.

Room Taken
2023
as Victoria
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
2023
as Mary
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
2022
as Annie
The thorny relationship between a woman and her retired father worsens after he becomes romantically involved with the housekeeper she hires for him.

Doineann
2021
as Labhaoise
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
2020
as Maire Mirkin
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
2020
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
2019
This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Stalker
2019
as Diane
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
2016
as Kitty
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
2016
as Catherine Gilroy
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
2015
as Miss Kelly
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
2012
as Queen Isabel
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
2012
as Ma
In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.

Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne
2009
as Theresa Byrne
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
2007
as Herself
Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.

Sunday
2002
as Mrs 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...

Topsy-Turvy
1999
as Mad Woman
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
1999
as Mrs Lysaght
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
1998
as Agnes 'Aggie' Mundy
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.

Trojan Eddie
1996
as Betty
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
1994
as Stella
In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel...

Guinevere
1994
as Morgan L'Fei
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
1993
as Thea Elvsted
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
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
1992
as Pamela Early
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
A lone hitch hiker, marooned near a housing estate, has a dramatic effect on the lives of those around him.

Who Bombed Birmingham?
1990
as Sister of IRA man
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
1989
as Lillian's Nurse
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
1987
as Lorna Martin
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
1987
as Grace O'Brien
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
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
1984
as Colette
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.

Anne Devlin
1984
as Anne Devlin
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
1984
as Lorna Martin
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
1983
as Lorna Martin
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
1982
as Lorna Martin
Relationships are strained in a Belfast family, particularly between a father and his son. First in a multi-year trilogy.

The Ballroom of Romance
1982
as Patty Byrne
A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.

Maeve
1981
as Roisin
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
1981
as Lady in Waiting
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...