Gillian Hanna


Gillian Hanna was an Irish stage, film, TV and voice actor. She founded the feminist about which she wrote a book that was published in 1991.

Early life

Hanna graduated with a First Class degree in Modern Languages from Trinity College, Dublin. She went on to work as an actor as well as a translator.

Career

In 1975, Hanna founded the feminist Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company. Hanna worked with the company for fifteen years. She later published a book about the company, Monstrous Regiment: A Collective Celebration. An essay of hers, "An Age Of Innocence", was published in the collection Trinity Tales: Trinity College In The Sixties. She has extensive credits on stage as well as on TV and film.
Hanna also had a bit part playing the very fragile and somewhat 'delicate' typist teacher Mrs Gossage in the sixth series of Grange Hill and played the sister of the evil Trevor Jordache in Brookside during the infamous Body under the patio story line in the 90's.

Books