Eva Birthistle
Eva Birthistle | |
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 Birthistle in 2007 | |
| Born | 1974 Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland[1] |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Children | 2 |
Eva Birthistle (born 1974) is an Irish actress and writer.
Early life and education
Birthistle was born in
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),[3] co-starring Colin Farrell, and TV movie Miracle at Midnight (1998), with Mia Farrow. In 2002, Eva appeared in Sunday, a dramatisation of the events of Bloody Sunday written by Jimmy McGovern.[3]
In 2003, she appeared in the TV series
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 of the second season of the BBC hit series Ashes to Ashes.[4] She also appeared in two successful horror films The Children (2008) and Wake Wood (2011). In 2010, she won Best Actress at the Myrtle Beach International Film Festival for her acclaimed performance as a lovelorn paralegal in Curt Truninger's The Rendezvous.[citation needed]
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.[5] In 2013, Birthistle co-starred with Anna Friel in the Sky1 TV production The Psychopath Next Door.[citation needed] In Brooklyn she played Georgina, the cabin-mate of Eilis (Saoirse Ronan), mentoring her in surviving the voyage to New York and dealing with immigration to the US. In 2014, she portrayed Sarah Bailey in the miniseries Amber. Since 2015, she has starred in The Last Kingdom as Hild, a nun turned warrior and friend of Uhtred of Bebbanburg. She appeared in the 2017 Irish film The Delinquent Season opposite Cillian Murphy.[1][3]
Personal life
Birthistle's husband, Ross, is an acupuncturist. They have a son, Jesse, born in 2013, and a daughter, Joni (named after Joni Mitchell) born in 2017.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e Shortall, Eithne (22 April 2018). "Changing the script: Eva Birthistle on screenwriting, motherhood and 'good work'". The Times. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
- ^ Applebaum, Stephen. "Eva Birthistle A Fond Kiss..." BBC. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Eva Birthistle". BFI. Archived from the original on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
- Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 1 July 2010.
- ^ "Strike Back Project Dawn: Eva Birthistle Interview". Sky1.sky.com. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
External links
- Eva Birthistle at IMDb
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