Eva Birthistle
Biography
Eva Birthistle is an Irish actress and writer who trained in Dublin at the Gaiety School of Acting after growing up in Bray, County Wicklow and later Derry. She took her first television role in 1995, playing Regina Crosbie in Glenroe, and stayed three years before moving into features. Starring as Roisin Hanlon in Ken Loach's Ae Fond Kiss... brought her a London Film Critics Circle award for actress of the year, and IFTA has twice honored her as its best leading film actress. On television she played Hild, a nun turned warrior, in The Last Kingdom from 2015 to 2022, and Jane Lavery, a human rights lawyer, in the conspiracy drama The State Within. In Brooklyn she played Georgina, who mentors Eilis on the voyage to New York, and she was Rembrandt's wife Saskia in Peter Greenaway's Nightwatching. She made her directing debut with the short Kathleen Was Here, expanding it into the feature Kathleen Is Here.
52years old
Turns 53 on April 16in 176 days
- Born Bray
- Star sign: AriesThe sign runs March 21 to April 19
Movie Career
- Films
- 13
- Career span
- 18 years2000 to 2018
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Behind the camera
Birthistle directed her first short film, Kathleen Was Here, in 2020, with Hazel Doupe starring. In 2024 she turned it into her first feature, Kathleen Is Here, and Doupe played the title character again.
First role
Birthistle landed her first TV role in 1995 as Regina Crosbie in the serial Glenroe, and stayed with the show for three years until 1998.
Eva Birthistle movies on Netflix
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Six actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Online
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