Orla Brady

Orla Brady is an Irish actress of theater, television, and film, born in Dublin and trained at École Philippe Gaulier in Paris. She started out touring with the Balloonatics Theatre Company in Hamlet and Finnegans Wake, then took roles at the Gate Theatre in Dublin before moving to London, where she played Kate in Philadelphia, Here I Come! and appeared at the Royal National Theatre in Blinded by the Sun. Her television work includes Mistresses, Fringe, Into the Badlands, American Horror Story, and Star Trek: Picard, along with the Doctor Who special The Time of the Doctor (2013). On film, her starring role in A Love Divided brought her a Best Actress prize at the Monte Carlo film and television festival, and she later appeared in The Foreigner (2017), Rose Plays Julie (2021), and Freud's Last Session (2023) opposite Anthony Hopkins. She won the Abbey Theatre Award for On Broken Wings.