Nora-Jane Noone

Nora-Jane Noone is an Irish actress who grew up in Galway City and spent two years training at a performing arts school there before turning professional. Her screen debut came as Bernadette in Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters (2002), which took the top prize at the Venice Film Festival that year. For the part she was shortlisted as British Newcomer of the Year by the London Film Critics' Circle in 2004. She has since earned three Irish Film and Television Award nominations, playing Holly in The Descent (2005) and taking a supporting role in Savage (2009), then a leading one in Wildfire (2020). Her wider film and television credits include Doomsday, Ella Enchanted, The Descent: Part 2, The Ipcress File and the RTÉ crime series Hidden Assets, and The Irish Times ranked her 47th among the greatest Irish film actors in 2020.