- Eva Birthistle
Eva Birthistle (born
January 1 ,1974 inBray ,Co. Wicklow ) is an Irishactress , best known for her role in "Ae Fond Kiss... ". She has won theLondon Film Critics Circle British Actress of the Year award for 2004, and has twice won the IFTA Best Actor in a Leading Role (Film) award.Biography
The daughter of a
farmer , the family moved toDerry when she was 14, and she resultantly has a licence to operate farm machinery. As a teenager, Eva went toDublin to study acting at theThe Gaiety School of Acting . On31 December ,2006 she married "Jetplane Landing " drummerRaife Burchell .Career
In 1995, she got her first TV role as Regina Crosbie in the serial "
Glenroe ", one of Irish channelRTE 's highest-rated shows. She stayed for three years until 1998.Other TV work followed, until she was offered her first feature film in 1997, "
All Souls' Day " byAlan Gilsenan . She played a variety of roles in Irish films, including "Drinking Crude" (1997), co-starringColin Farrell , and TV movie "Miracle at Midnight " (1998), withMia Farrow .In 2002, Eva appeared in two dramas about the same challenging subject, Bloody Sunday: the documentary-style TV drama "Bloody Sunday", starring
James Nesbitt , and "Sunday", written byJimmy McGovern .Her arguably most prominent part so far has been the female leading part (Roisin Hanlon) in the
Ken Loach movie "Ae Fond Kiss... " (2003/4), which won her many awards, including the 2005London Critics Circle Film Award as "British Actress of the Year".She has also appeared in
Neil Jordan 's "Breakfast on Pluto",Ol Parker 's "Imagine Me & You " and "Save Angel Hope " byLukas Erni in 2005 and inBrian Kirk 's "Middletown" in 2006.Birthistle starred as human rights lawyer Jane Lavery in the TV conspiracy drama "
The State Within " in 2006. In late 2007 she featured asRembrandt 's wifeSaskia van Uylenburg in the historical drama "Nightwatching " byPeter Greenaway . She featured in the BBC drama "The Last Enemy" in early 2008 playing the role of Elaeanor Brooke, a junior minister.References
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