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Eileen Walsh

For the National:

Training

Eileen Walsh trained at Trinity College Dublin.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: Mnemonic (2024), a co-production with Complicité, The Crucible, Absolute Hell, Broad Shadow and Liolà

Other theatre includes: Girl on an Altar, The Plough and the Stars and Macbeth at the Abbey, Dublin; The Seagull and Conversations for Druid Theatre Company; Medea and Beginning at the Gate, Dublin; Aristocrats at the Donmar; Teh Internet is Serious Business and Crave at the Royal Court; The Same for Corcadorca Theatre Company; Little Eyolf at the Almeida; Lippy and Hamlet for the Young Vic; The Believers for Frantic Assembly and Theatre Royal Plymouth; Terminus for Traverse, The Public, New York and the Abbey, Dublin; Mary Stuart at National Theatre Scotland and the Royal Lyceum; Disco Pigs at the Bush and the Arts; and The Entertainer at Liverpool Playhouse

TV

Small Town, Big Story, Say Nothing, Modern Love, The South Westerlies, Catastrophe, Patrick Melrose and Delicious

Film

Small Things Like These, Wolf, Made in Italy, The Children Act, Snap, The Maid of France, Eden, Nicholas Nickleby, The Magdalene Sisters and Miss Julie

Awards

The Same – 2018 Irish Times Award for Best Actress

Terminus – 2008 Irish Times Best Actress Award

Wolf – 2023 Irish Film and Television Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actress

Eden – 2008 Tribeca Film Festival Best Actress Award and 2009 IFTA Best Actress Award

The Magdalene Sisters – 2002 Golden Lion Award at Venice Film Festival

 

(Updated June 2024. Photograph courtesy of Eileen Walsh)