Bronagh Gallagher

Bronagh Gallagher is an Irish actress and singer from Derry, Northern Ireland, who took up drama and music at school and joined a local amateur theater company before her first screen part, in Dear Sarah, a television movie from 1989. Her international breakthrough came as Bernie in The Commitments (1991), and she went on to film appearances in Pulp Fiction (1994), Mary Reilly (1996), Divorcing Jack (1998), Thunderpants (2002), Tristan + Isolde (2006), Last Chance Harvey (2008) and Grabbers (2012). She has released three albums, including Precious Soul (2004), wrote most of the music herself and sang lead vocals, and has appeared on stage with Théâtre de Complicité and in the National Theatre's War Horse. On television she played Carol in the Sky series Brassic, and in 2020 The Irish Times placed her among Ireland's greatest film actors.