Eileen O'Higgins

Eileen O'Higgins is an Irish actress from Castlewellan, County Down, Northern Ireland, who trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. She began on screen in 2009 with the BBC miniseries Emma and the television film Enid, about Enid Blyton, then worked in theater, including a play by Alice Birch at The Old Vic. Her breakthrough came on stage in Hold Your Tongue, Hold Your Dead, a performance a Harvard Crimson reviewer found immediate and relatable, and it led to her first film, Brooklyn (2015), opposite Saoirse Ronan. She later reunited with Ronan in Mary Queen of Scots, playing Mary Beaton, and appeared in the BBC series My Mother and Other Strangers. In the early 2020s she took roles in Dead Still, Misbehaviour with Keira Knightley, The Irregulars on Netflix and Billy the Kid on Epix.