Orla Fitzgerald
Orla Fitzgerald (born 1978 in Cork, Ireland) is an Irish actress who lives and works in London.[1]
She received two nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Best Breakthrough Artist at the fourth annual Irish Film and Television Awards for her work as Sinéad Ní Shúilleabháin in The Wind That Shakes the Barley.
She was also nominated for Best Actress at the Stage Awards for the Edinburgh Theatre Festival 2006 for her leading role in Pumpgirl at the Traverse Theatre.
Training and early career
Fitzgerald took drama classes in Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, placed there by her mother who thought she was perhaps too shy. “It was a 90-minute workshop on a Saturday morning, where we did improv and plays. It was all about fun and being creative and I loved it,” the actress has said.[1]
In the late '90s, she was cast in Corcadorca Theatre Company’s production of Disco Pigs. She built her career from there.
Selected filmography
- Speed Dating, 2007
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley, 2006
- Strangers in the Night, 2002
- Crossed Lines, 2001
TV work
- Law & Order: UK, 2009
- Pure Mule: The Last Weekend, 2009
- Holby Blue, 2008
- The Last Furlong, 2005
- The Baby Wars, 2005
- Love is the Drug, 2004
Selected stage career
- Comedy of Errors, Royal Exchange, Manchester[2]
- Crestfall, Theatre503, London[2]
- Pumpgirl, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; 3 to 27 August 2006; Bush Theatre, London; 12 September to 14 October 2006[1]
- This Ebony Bird, Blood in the Alley Theatre Company, Ballydehob, Ireland[2][3]
- The System; The Project, Raw Productions, Dublin
- The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish; The Ark, Dublin
- Playboy of the Western World; Royal Exchange, Manchester
- A Town Called F**cked; Last Serenade Theatre Company
- Macbeth; Second Age Theatre Company, Dublin[2][4]
- A Quite Life; Peacock Theatre, Dublin[2]
- The River; Meridian Theatre Company[2]
- Who's Breaking?; Graffiti Theatre Company, Cork[5]
- Laodamia; Merlin International Theatre, Budapest[2][6]
- Disco Pigs; Corcadorca Theatre Company, Cork[1]
- Othello; Everyman Theatre, Cork
Selected radio career
- Enda Walsh’s 4 Big Days in the Life of Dessie Banks
External links
References
- ^ a b c d "Why theatre takes centre stage for actress Orla". Irish Examiner.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Orla Fitzgerald". Octagon Bolton.
- ^ "Blood in the Alley Theatre Company". Facebook.
- ^ "Second Age".
- ^ "Graffiti Theatre Company".
- ^ "Merlin Theatre". Lonely Planet.
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