Aisling O'Sullivan

Born: 1968-01-01 in Ireland

Known For: Acting

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Aisling O'Sullivan (born 1968 in Tralee, County Kerry) is an award-winning Irish actress who starred in the movie The Butcher Boy as Francie's mentally unstable mother. O'Sullivan previously appeared briefly in another Neil Jordan film, Michael Collins. She had a part as the grieving mother who commits suicide in Six Shooter, playwright Martin McDonagh's Oscar-winning short film. She is familiar to Irish television audiences as Dr. Cathy Costello from Series 1 to Series 5 in the hugely popular drama series The Clinic, a role for which she has won an IFTA best actress award IN 2008. She garnered major acclaim for her performance as Widow Quin in Druid Theatre Company's 2004 production of The Playboy of the Western World, which toured throughout Ireland including her native Kerry, and also starred Cillian Murphy and Anne-Marie Duff. She also had a leading role in the Channel 4 thriller Shockers (1999). She is currently starring in Raw, an RTÉ drama based on a restaurant playing Restaurant Manager Fiona Kelly, in its second season. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aisling O'Sullivan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2024

I Can't Go On as Mrs. Cunningham

2022

The Sparrow
First Date as Tina
Joyride as Mags

2021

The Approach as Anna
Frank of Ireland as Maelbhina

2013

Debris as Margaret

2010

Snap as Sandra

2008

A Film with Me in It as Policewoman
Raw as Fiona Kelly

2001

Parent's Night as Helena Turner

2000

The Wyvern Mystery as Vrau
The Announcement as Liv

1999

The War Zone as Carol
Shockers as Helena Turner
Life Support as Dr. Katherine Doone

1998

The American as Claire De Cintré
The Butcher Boy as Ma Brady

1996

Michael Collins as Girl in Bed

1995

Runway One as Frances

1993

Cracker as Aileen