Maria Doyle Kennedy
Birthday: Born in 1964-09-25 in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland
Deathday: Alive
Maria Doyle Kennedy is an Irish film and television actress, singer and songwriter, best known for her roles as Queen Katherine of Aragon in the television series "The Tudors", the title character's wife Frances in "The General", and as Siobhan "Mrs. S" Sadler in the television series "Orphan Black".
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Father Ted
Character: Patsy
A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast....
The Tudors
Character: Catherine of Aragon
The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion....
Downton Abbey
Character: Vera Bates
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy. ...
Orphan Black
Character: Siobhan 'Mrs. S' Sadler
A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her....
Dexter
Character: Sonya
Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice....
Titanic
Character: Muriel Batley
A heart-wrenching journey through Titanic's last moments, featuring both fictional and historical characters, ranging from steerage passengers and crew to upper class guests and staff....
Queer as Folk
Character: Marie Threepwood
Stuart Jones has got it all. He's rich, drop-dead gorgeous and always the centre of attention. He can be forgiven the arrogance because he's pretty close to perfection. His best mate Vince Tyler is funny, adorable and definitely a babe but, unlike his friend, has zero confidence in himself. Since time began, Vince has carried a torch for Stuart but his love remains firmly unrequited. They're both 29, hitting Canal Street every night, stalwarts of the scene but just starting to wonder where else ...
The Wheel of Time
Character: Ila
Follow Moiraine, a member of the shadowy and influential all-female organization called the “Aes Sedai” as she embarks on a dangerous, world-spanning journey with five young men and women. Moiraine believes one of them might be the reincarnation of an incredibly powerful individual, whom prophecies say will either save humanity or destroy it....
Recipes for Love and Murder
Character: Tannie Maria
Tannie Maria sees food as "medicine for the body and heart". She envies romance as much as she enjoys cooking and eating. But it's death that shakes up Tannie Maria's life, when one of the correspondents to her column is brutally murdered....
Outlander
Character: Jocasta Cameron
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives....
Corp + Anam
Character: Mairéad Mhic Iarnáin
Gritty Irish-language drama chronicling the difficult professional and intense personal life of Cathal Mac Iarnáin, a tenacious TV crime reporter who is obsessed with pursuing the story behind the story. But as single-minded as he is about uncovering the truth, he is often too busy chasing stories to notice that the world of crime hits closer to home every day....
Oliver Twist
Character: Irish Shop Assistant
Oliver Twist is a 1999 television mini-series produced by ITV based on the book Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....
Outlander
Character: Jocasta Innes
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives....
Call the Midwife
Character: Attracta
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth....
No Tears
Character: Kitty Fogarty
Based on the hepatitis C scandal that rocked Ireland in the mid-1990s. Two very different women discover that they have been infected with hepatitis C by a contaminated anti-D injection years before. Despite the devastating effects on the women and their families, they unite in a campaign group to take on the health authorities and expose the evasions and lies of the political and bureaucratic establishment....
Lost Boys and Fairies
Character: Sandra
Gabriel and his partner Andy adopt a child. But Gabriel has a history and he will need to embark upon a journey of self-discovery and attempt to repair his relationship with his dad before he can truly begin to parent 7-year old Jake....
Kin
Character: Bridget 'Birdy' Goggins
The lives of a Dublin family embroiled in a gangland war and the consequences of their choices....
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Tara Road
Character: Rosemary
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland....
The Commitments
Character: Natalie Murphy
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan....
The Matchmaker
Character: Sarah Kelly
Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she finds herself in the middle of a matchmaking festival, and the local matchmaker is determined to pair her off with one of the local bachelors....
The General
Character: Frances
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team....
Miss Julie
Character: Christine
A footman seduces a count's daughter. Adaptation of August Strindberg's famous play....
Mystics
Character: Foxy
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead....
A Thousand Times Good Night
Character: Theresa
On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, Rebecca – one of the world’s top war photojournalists - gets badly hurt. Back home, another bomb drops as her husband and daughters give her an ultimatum: her work or her family....
Byzantium
Character: Morag
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local resort....
Moll Flanders
Character: Alice
The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest lead Moll to rebel as a teenager, escaping to the dangerous streets of London. Further misfortunes drive her to accept a job as a prostitute from the conniving Mrs. Allworthy. It is there that Moll first meets Hibble, who is working as Allworthy's servant but takes a special interest in the young woman's well-being. With his help, she retains hope fo...
Jupiter Ascending
Character: Aleksa
In a universe where human genetic material is the most precious commodity, an impoverished young Earth woman becomes the key to strategic maneuvers and internal strife within a powerful dynasty…...
Albert Nobbs
Character: Mary
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living....
Sing Street
Character: Penny Lawlor
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes....
The Conjuring 2
Character: Peggy Nottingham
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits....
The Timber
Character: Maggie
In the wild west, two brothers embark on a journey to collect a bounty in a desperate attempt to save their home: but what they find along the way is more than they bargained for....
Nothing Personal
Character: Ann
A raw depiction of the Belfast 'troubles' as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, the film focuses on the tribulations of Kenny, Protestant leader of a group of Shankill Road Loyalists, and his one-time friend Liam, a Catholic....
Gregory's Two Girls
Character: Bel
Twenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils uncover evil practices at a local factory they want their teacher to help them expose the wrong-doer, who happens to be Greg's old schoolfriend....
I Could Read the Sky
Character: Maggie
The film concerns an old Irish immigrant living in London who is looking back over his life. He recalls his early life in the west of Ireland, his first love, emigrating to England, searching for his brother Joe, who disappeared after he emigrated several years previously. His marriage and wife's later depth is also remembered....
Spin the Bottle
Character: Anastasia
Rats is released from prison and needs to make some money; fast. To his dismay, things have changed dramatically during his absence; his mother no longer has time for him and his ex-bandmates alike. He wishes to help donate towards his obese aunty's trip to Lourdes. He struggles to find a job, yet never fails to find himself in a difficult situation....
Thursday the 12th
Character: Nina Bannister
In this two-part Rashomon-esque mini-series, a TV journalist investigates a rich politician and his family after a dead body is found on their property and they all have different story about the day of the incident....
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Character: Mrs. Blackwood
In Shirleyville, Vermont, during the sixties, sisters Merricat and Constance, along with their ailing uncle Julian, confined to a wheelchair, live isolated in a big mansion located on the hill overlooking the town, tormented by the memories of a family tragedy occurred six years ago. The arrival of cousin Charles will threaten the fragile equilibrium of their minds, haunted by madness, fear and superstition....
Wolfwalkers
Character: Mebh's Mother, Moll MacTíre (voice)
In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack. But when she saves a wild native girl, their friendship leads her to discover the world of the Wolfwalkers and transform her into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy....
After the Triumph of Your Birth
Character: Sister Roisin
A surreal, dark humored portrait of the outsider; a music driven celebration of uncertainty....
A Further Gesture
Character: Roisin
Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in a risky escape. Dowd begins a new life in New York, but he might as well be in prison again - until he strikes up a friendship with co-worker Tulio and gets to know his close group of Guatemalan exiles....