Maggie Cronin

Maggie Cronin, an Irish actress and playwright, is known for playing practice manager Kate McGuire in the BBC soap opera Doctors from 2000 to 2004. She first sang with the group Draylon Underground before her screen debut in a 1993 episode of The Bill, and she also acted in United, a BAFTA TV Award winner. She wrote the one-woman show A Most Notorious Woman, which opened at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1989 and toured the UK, Ireland and the US; the script earned the Stewart Parker Trust/BBC Radio Drama Award in 1995. Her other plays include Ties That Bind and Shrieking Sisters. She returned briefly to Doctors in 2006, performed in her second one-woman show, Greenstick Boy, and appeared in Terry George's short film The Shore, which won the Academy Award for Short Film, Live Action in 2012.