Valene Kane

Valene Kane is a Northern Irish actress from Newry, County Down. After training at the Central School of Speech and Drama, she rose to prominence as Rose Stagg in BBC Two's The Fall, later appearing in Thirteen, Blue Lights, Gangs of London and The Winter King. On film she played Lyra Erso in Rogue One (2016) and a journalist investigating ISIS recruitment in Profile (2018), which won the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival; her films also include Nowhere Special (2020). Her stage work includes the title role in Strindberg's Miss Julie, Girleen in Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West, and Lady Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company. She won Best Actress at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival for First Person and a BBC Audio Drama Award for her role in The Stroma Sessions.