Orla Fitzgerald

Orla Fitzgerald (born 1978 in Cork, Ireland) is an Irish actress who lives and works in London.^[1]

She received two nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Best Breakthrough Artist at the fourth annual Irish Film and Television Awards for her work as Sinéad Ní Shúilleabháin in The Wind That Shakes the Barley.

She was also nominated for Best Actress at the Stage Awards for the Edinburgh Theatre Festival 2006 for her leading role in Pumpgirl at the Traverse Theatre.

Training and early career

Fitzgerald took drama classes in Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, placed there by her mother who thought she was perhaps too shy. “It was a 90-minute workshop on a Saturday morning, where we did improv and plays. It was all about fun and being creative and I loved it,” the actress has said.^[1]

In the late '90s, she was cast in Corcadorca Theatre Company’s production of Disco Pigs. She built her career from there.

Selected filmography

• Speed Dating, 2007
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley, 2006
• Strangers in the Night, 2002
• Crossed Lines, 2001

TV work

• Law & Order: UK, 2009
• Pure Mule: The Last Weekend, 2009
• Holby Blue, 2008
• The Last Furlong, 2005
• The Baby Wars, 2005
• Love is the Drug, 2004

Selected stage career

• Comedy of Errors, Royal Exchange, Manchester^[2]
• Crestfall, Theatre503, London^[2]
• Pumpgirl, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; 3 to 27 August 2006; Bush Theatre, London; 12 September to 14 October 2006^[1]
• This Ebony Bird, Blood in the Alley Theatre Company, Ballydehob, Ireland^[2][3]
• The System; The Project, Raw Productions, Dublin
• The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish; The Ark, Dublin
• Playboy of the Western World; Royal Exchange, Manchester
• A Town Called F**cked; Last Serenade Theatre Company
• Macbeth; Second Age Theatre Company, Dublin^[2][4]
• A Quite Life; Peacock Theatre, Dublin^[2]
• The River; Meridian Theatre Company^[2]
• Who's Breaking?; Graffiti Theatre Company, Cork^[5]
• Laodamia; Merlin International Theatre, Budapest^[2][6]
• Disco Pigs; Corcadorca Theatre Company, Cork^[1]
• Othello; Everyman Theatre, Cork

Selected radio career

• Enda Walsh’s 4 Big Days in the Life of Dessie Banks

External links

• Orla Fitzgerald at the Internet Movie Database

References