Rosemary Henderson

Rosemary Henderson is an Irish actress from Dublin who began acting professionally in 1983 after leaving a secretarial job at Guinness. Her early training included the Betty Ann Norton summer school and the Dublin Oscar Theatre School of Acting, and she later studied at Stefan Niedziałkowski's American School of Polish Mime. Henderson has worked mainly in theater and television and is best known for playing Sister Assumpta in two episodes of Father Ted, And God Created Woman and Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading. On stage she has appeared at the Peacock Theatre, the Gaiety Theatre, Bewley's Café Theatre, and the Dublin Fringe Festival, and she has written several plays. Her short story The Box earned a Hennessy Literary Award nomination, and she also appeared in the music video for Def Leppard's 1987 hit Pour Some Sugar on Me.