Deirdre Donnelly

Early life

Stage roles

• Rosalind in Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin and on national tour with the Irish Theatre Company,
• Olivia in Twelfth Night at the Abbey's Peacock Theatre.
• The Bride in Lorca's Blood Wedding at the Abbey
• Kate Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer with the Irish Theatre Company.
• Boesman and Lena for Field Day Theatre Company at the Guildhall in Derry
• The Mouth in Beckett's Not I at the Peacock.
• Jon Fosse's A Dream of Autumn at the Project Theatre, Dublin She received an Irish Times Best Supporting Actress nomination
• Nuts and Bolts in Bewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin
• Linda Loman Death of a Salesman at the Gate Theatre, Dublin.
• Lady Catherine de Burgh in Pride and Prejudice at the Hong Kong Arts Festival
• Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest at the Spoleto Arts Festival in South Carolina.
• Monagh in Catchpenny Twist at the Peacock Theatre,
• Tiny Tina in John, Paul, George, Ringo...and Bert for the ITC
• Roscommon in The Blue Macushla at the Abbey Theatre,
• Christina Daftigan in The J. Arthur Maginnis Story with the Irish Theatre Company,
• Magdalene in Frank McGuinness's Donegal, also at the Abbey
• Evening Train at the Everyman Palace Theatre. Cork.

  Film and television roleshttp://www.theagency.ie/deirdre-donnelly

• The Riordans as Cathy.
• The Last of Summer as Jo.
• Farmers as Nuala.
• Miracles and Miss Langan as Miss Langan.
• Criminal Conversation as Margaret.
• Painted Out as Maura Doyle.
• Attracta as Geraldine Carey.
• The Irish RM as Miss Fraser.
• The Fantasist as Fionnuala O'Sullivan.
• Molloy as Mrs. Molloy.
• Connemara as La Reine.
• The Hamster Wheel as Jeanette.
• Runway One as Mrs. Connaughton.
• Ballykissangel as Siobhan.
• Legend as Bernie Molloy.
• The Clinic as Carol O'Dwyer.
• Cracks as Miss Lacey.
• Homemade as Joan.
• Quirke as Sister Dominic.
• Amber as Maureen O'Donoghue.
• The Frankenstein Chronicles as Mrs. Townsend.
• Goodbye, Darling as Kathleen.
• Striking Out - as Judge O'Sullivan.
• The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid as Supreme Court Judge.
• The Virtues as Susan.
• Rialto as Miriam.
• The Ferry as Bertha.
• Brassic as Mo Dennings.
• The Lady on the Hill as The Mother.