Dearbháile McKinney
Acting
Biography
Dearbháile McKinney is a stage and screen actress from Londonderry, Northern Ireland. She got a Higher National Diploma in Performing Arts from the North West Regional College in Derry in 2014. She also trained with The Lyric Theatre in Belfast in 2015, and was a Norman Beaton Fellowship finalist.
Known For
The coming-of-age journey of five fairies attending Alfea, a magical boarding school in the Otherworld where they must learn to master their powers while navigating love, rivalries, and the monsters that threaten their very existence.
Fate: The Winx Saga
Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
Derry Girls
Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.
Blue Lights
A lonely boy desperately searches for guidance and protection, when he finds a completely unconventional mentor hiding in the nearby woods.
The Wise Guy
A comedy about a schoolboy with a strange friend seeking romantic advice from his granddad who in return wants him to break him out of his mental institution.
Take It From Me
Wayne, an ex-con, wants to turn his life around by applying for a salesman job. The only thing is, he needs a suit. With the aid of his friend he steals a distinctive, bespoke suit from the corpse of a wealthy man, not realising that the woman interviewing him for the job is the dead man's daughter.