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Andrea Irvine

Andrea Irvine

Acting

Biography

Born Dunmurry 1967. Industrious, practised, stage and occasional screen actor, who began her career shortly after graduating from St. Andrews University in 1988.

Known For

Line of Duty
8.2

A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.

Line of Duty

2012
Blue Lights
7.5

Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.

Blue Lights

2023
Red Rock
7.1

Starting on the day a long, dormant feud between two local families is brutally reignited, this continuing drama is based around a busy Dublin Garda station. On one side, the Hennessys, a local dynasty, whose name is above half the businesses in town. On the other side, the Kielys, who have turned petty crime into a cottage industry. Charting the life and dramas of a community about to be enveloped by a feud, through the eyes of those who police it, each episode will be a mix of 'crime of the week' stories and on-going serial arcs, following principle characters in both their professional and personal lives. A powerful and moving drama, Red Rock is a contemporary western, set in the shadow of Ireland's 'gold rush'.

Red Rock

2015
Ella Enchanted
6.5

Ella lives in a magical world in which each child, at the moment of their birth, is given a virtuous "gift" from a fairy godmother. Ella's so-called gift, however, is obedience. This birthright proves itself to be quite the curse once Ella finds herself in the hands of several unscrupulous characters whom she quite literally cannot disobey. Determined to gain control of her life and decisions, Ella sets off on a journey to find her fairy godmother who she hopes will lift the curse. The path, however, isn't easy -- Ella must outwit a slew of unpleasant obstacles including ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, elves and Prince Charmont's evil uncle, who wants to take over the crown and rule the kingdom.

Ella Enchanted

2004
Dead Shot
5.4

In the 1970s, a member of the IRA takes over an Active Service Unit in London after his wife is accidentally shot dead in Ireland. The unit's mission is to cause chaos and destruction, while his personal aim is to hunt down his wife’s killer — an SAS captain, who is also hunting him.

Dead Shot

2023
Evelyn
6.4

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.

Evelyn

2002
Five Minutes of Heaven
6.1

The story of former Ulster Volunteer Force member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffin's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.

Five Minutes of Heaven

2009
Stella Days
6.4

A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new church, he decides to open a cinema in the local town.

Stella Days

2012
End of Sentence
6.2

Newly widowed Frank Fogle embarks on a journey to Ireland to scatter his late wife’s ashes. His estranged son, Sean, recently released from prison, agrees to join only when his father promises that they’ll never see each other again following the trip. After revelations surface about an old flame of Frank’s wife and a charming hitchhiker with plans of her own intervenes, father and son find themselves drawn together in unexpected ways.

End of Sentence

2019
Baltimore
5.9

Based on actual events that took place on 26 April 1974, former debutante turned IRA member Rose Dugdale and three comrades carried out an armed raid on Russborough House, Wicklow, in which nineteen masterpieces were stolen in an effort to support the IRA’s armed struggle. The film plays out over the course of the days following the raid, when Rose is in hiding in a remote cottage.

Baltimore

2024
Boys from County Hell
5.7

A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering Father and Son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.

Boys from County Hell

2021
The Teacher
6.2

A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students and the chance of a new romantic relationship with a British volunteer worker.

The Teacher

2024
Gold In The Streets
5.0

An Irish immigrant lands in the Bronx, working at an Italian-owned bar while living with fellow undocumented immigrants. Fears of deportation and uncertainty about their place haunt him and his cousin.

Gold In The Streets

1997
Wild Decembers
4.5

The film, based on the novel of the same title by Edna O'Brien, is a dark story about love and land set in County Clare in the West of Ireland.

Wild Decembers

2009
Sadie
N/A

Filmed at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast for BBC's Lights Up season of theatrical films, David Ireland's play concerns Sadie, a sharp tongued Belfast cleaner, who must confront painful episodes from her turbulent life.

Sadie

2021
Peat
N/A

Anne Byrne, recently widowed, lives with her useless adult son. She’s left juggling housework and the bog, until her witchy neighbour suggests building a Golem. When Anne develops feelings for it, her man-child son tries to destroy it.

Peat

2024
Best Before
N/A

Helena and Lainie head into their final round of IVF treatment and the stresses of the unknown begin to put pressure on their idyllic farm life. With their chicken, Shakira, laying eggs every day Helena decides to make it a competiti

Best Before

2024
Cyprus Avenue
9.0

David Ireland's award-winning dark comedy about sectarian hatred in Northern Ireland. Eric Miller, a Belfast loyalist, mistakes his five-week-old granddaughter for Gerry Adams.

Cyprus Avenue

2019
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N/A

Follows Jo, an introverted young woman who—after being broken up with her boyfriend before she can tell him she’s pregnant—turns to standup comedy to find her voice and navigate this episode in her life.

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