Gabrielle Reidy

Gabrielle Reidy was an Irish actress who performed in numerous productions at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin between 1971 and 2012. Born in 1960 and raised in Malahide, County Dublin, she attended Trinity College Dublin, where she studied modern languages. Her first role came at eleven, in a 1971 staging of Seán O'Casey's The Shadow of a Gunman at the Abbey. She appeared there in Graham Reid's The Death of Humpty Dumpty in 1979, and in 1989 she wrote and starred in Fragments of Isabella. After moving to London that year, she acted at the Royal National Theatre in The Trojan Women in 1995 and at Shakespeare's Globe in Much Ado About Nothing, and she appeared in Equus. On screen, she played the mother of Scarlett Johansson's character in Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003). Her television work included The Clinic, Prime Suspect, and The Bill. She was nominated for an IFTN award and died in 2014.