Bríd Brennan

Theatre

In London’s West End: By the Bog of Cats, Absolutely (Perhaps!), The Ferryman, Pinter at the Pinter: Moonlight and Night School.

Other productions include: Macbeth (as Lady Macbeth) and La Lupa for the RSC; Henry V at Shakespeare’s Globe; Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic; The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman he Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, A Kind of Alaska and The Little Foxes (Olivier Award nomination) at the Donmar; Plaques and Tangles, Bliss, Woman and Scarecrow, Bone and Balilegangaire at the Royal Court; All My Sons at Regent’s Park; Blood Wedding at the Young Vic; Smelling a Rat at Hampstead; Intemperance at the Everyman, Liverpool; A Particle of Dread and Farewell for Field Day at Derry Playhouse and Signature, NY; All that Fall for Out of Joint; What Shadow for Birmingham Rep; Dallas Sweetman and Canterbury Cathedral for Paines Plough; Silver Birch House at the Arcola; and Juno and the Paycock and Philadelphia, Here I Come! at the Gaiety, Dublin.

TV

Ballroom of Romance, The Daily Woman, Ghostwatch, Trial & Retribution, Any Time Now, Cracker, Tell Tale Hearts, Four Days in July, The Billy Trilogy, Lorna, Cracker, The Escape Artist, Upstairs Downstairs, Doctor Who, Come Home, Peaky Blinders, Unforgotten, Hope Street and Dalgliesh.

Film

My Sailor, My Love, Doineann, Brooklyn, Calm with Horses, Florence Foster Jenkins, Shadow Dancer, The Truth Commissioner, Topsy Turvey, Dancing at Lughnasa, Trojan Eddie, Sunday, Felicia’s Journey, Hidden City, Anne Devlin and Maeve.

Awards

The Ferryman – Olivier Award nomination

Shadow Dancer – IFTA Award and Edinburgh Festival Award

Dancing at Lughnasa – IFTA Award

Rutherford and Son – Olivier Award nomination

(Updated April 2023. Photograph courtesy of Bríd Brennan)