
Agnes O'Casey
Acting
Biography
Agnes O'Casey is best known as an actress in BBC's adaptation of Jo Bloom’s novel Ridley Road (2021), The Miracle Club (2023), Lies We Tell (2023), and various stage productions. O'Casey was born Agnes Eustacia Kenig in London, England. She graudated from the Lir Academy, in Dublin. She is the great-granddaughter of playwright Seán O’Casey. In 2024 she won the award for Best Lead Actress in Film at the Irish Film & Television Awards for her work in Lies We Tell (2023).
Known For

Step into a thrilling chapter inspired by For All Mankind. Same alt-history universe. Different perspective: the Soviet Union's. Go behind the Iron Curtain with the cosmonauts, engineers, and intelligence officers who risked it all in the race for the Moon.
Star City

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
Wolf Hall

When a spy posing as a politician's wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.
Black Doves

In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
Small Things Like These

During London's swinging sixties, young Jewish Vivien Epstein follows her lover into danger and when he is caught between life and death, she finds herself going undercover with the fascists, not only for him but for the sake of her country.
Ridley Road

Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey of a lifetime — a visit to Lourdes, the picturesque French town and place of miracles.
The Miracle Club
Adapts the smash hit John le Carré novel "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" while also drawing on material from his 2017 novel "A Legacy of Spies." George Smiley pursues Soviet spymaster Karla during the Cold War. The story opens at the Berlin Wall where Alec Leamas witnesses East German guards kill his final agent.
Legacy of Spies

An orphaned heiress is forced to embrace her family's dark legacy.
Lies We Tell
The lives of the servants of Longbourn House, home to the Bennet family of Jane Austen's 'Pride & Prejudice.'