Eva Birthistle

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Eva Birthistle

Curt Truninger and Eva Birthistle on the set of The Rendezvous in Toronto.
Born (1974-01-01) 1 January 1974[1]
Bray, Ireland
Occupation Actress

Eva Birthistle (born 1 January 1974) is an Irish actress, best known for her role in Ae Fond Kiss.... She won the London Film Critics Circle British Actress of the Year Award in 2004, and has twice won the IFTA Best Actress in a Leading Role (Film) award.

Early life and education

Born in Bray, Ireland, the daughter of a farmer, the family moved to Derry, Northern Ireland, when she was 14. She was raised Roman Catholic.[2] As a teenager, Eva went to Dublin to study acting at the The Gaiety School of Acting.

Personal life

On 31 December 2006, she married her long-time partner Raife Burchell from the band Jetplane Landing.[3] They live in Notting Hill, West London.[4]

Career

In 1995, she got her first TV role as Regina Crosbie in the serial Glenroe. She stayed for three years until 1998. She was offered her first feature film in 1997, All Souls' Day by Alan Gilsenan. She played a variety of roles in Irish films, including Drinking Crude (1997),[citation needed] co-starring Colin Farrell, and TV movie Miracle at Midnight (1998), with Mia 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 by Jimmy McGovern.[citation needed]

In 2003, she appeared in the TV series Trust before starring as Roisin Hanlon in the Ken Loach movie Ae Fond Kiss... (2003-04), which won her the 2005 London Critics Circle Film Award as "British Actress of the Year".

She appeared in Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto, Ol Parker's Imagine Me & You and Save Angel Hope by Lukas Erni in 2005, and in Brian Kirk's Middletown in 2006.[citation needed]

Birthistle starred as human rights lawyer Jane Lavery in the TV conspiracy drama The State Within in 2006. In late 2007, she featured as Rembrandt's wife Saskia van Uylenburg in the historical drama, Nightwatching by Peter Greenaway.

She featured in the BBC drama The Last Enemy in early 2008, playing the role of Eleanor Brooke, a junior minister. In 2009, she portrayed Jenette in the last episode -season 2- of the BBC hit series Ashes to Ashes.[5] That same year, she appeared in the independent horror film, Wake Wood.

She played "Annette Nicholls" in the 2010 three-part TV series Five Daughters. She appeared as Detective Superintendent Sarah Cavendish in the ninth, and final, series of Waking the Dead. In 2011, Birthistle appeared in the Sky1 TV series Strike Back: Project Dawn as Captain Kate Marshall.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "birthdaypresentforhim.com". 
  2. ↑ Applebaum, Stephen (2004-09-). "Eva Birthistle A Fond Kiss...". BBC. Retrieved 2010-09-13. 
  3. ↑ "Hits and missus!". Sundayworld.com. 2009-12-28. Retrieved 2013-08-04. 
  4. ↑ Richard Kay (2012-01-12). "Eva's Cuban clinch with Carlos". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-08-04. 
  5. ↑ "Ashes to Ashes Episode #2.8 (2009)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 1 July 2010. 
  6. ↑ "Strike Back Project Dawn: Eva Birthistle Interview". Sky1.sky.com. Retrieved 2013-08-04. 

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