Eva Birthistle

Eva Birthistle

Eva Birthistle (born January 1, 1974 in Bray, Co. Wicklow) is an Irish actress, best known for her role in "Ae Fond Kiss...". She has won the London Film Critics Circle British Actress of the Year award for 2004, and has twice won the IFTA Best Actor in a Leading Role (Film) award.

Biography

The daughter of a farmer, the family moved to Derry when she was 14, and she resultantly has a licence to operate farm machinery. As a teenager, Eva went to Dublin to study acting at the The Gaiety School of Acting. On 31 December, 2006 she married "Jetplane Landing" drummer Raife Burchell.

Career

In 1995, she got her first TV role as Regina Crosbie in the serial "Glenroe", one of Irish channel RTE's highest-rated shows. She stayed for three years until 1998.

Other TV work followed, until 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), co-starring Colin Farrell, and TV movie "Miracle at Midnight" (1998), with Mia Farrow.

In 2002, Eva appeared in two dramas about the same challenging subject, Bloody Sunday: the documentary-style TV drama "Bloody Sunday", starring James Nesbitt, and "Sunday", written by Jimmy McGovern.

Her arguably most prominent part so far has been the female leading part (Roisin Hanlon) in the Ken Loach movie "Ae Fond Kiss..." (2003/4), which won her many awards, including the 2005 London Critics Circle Film Award as "British Actress of the Year".

She has also appeared in Neil Jordan's "Breakfast on Pluto", Ol Parker's "Imagine Me & You" and "Save Angel Hope" by Lukas Erni in 2005 and in Brian Kirk's "Middletown" in 2006.

Birthistle starred as human rights lawyer Jane Lavery in the TV conspiracy drama "The State Within" in 2006. In late 2007 she featured as Rembrandt's wife Saskia van Uylenburg in the historical drama "Nightwatching" by Peter Greenaway. She featured in the BBC drama "The Last Enemy" in early 2008 playing the role of Elaeanor Brooke, a junior minister.

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