Caroline Grace-Cassidy (née Caroline Grace) is an
Irish
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film and television actress, screenwriter, and author of seven novels. She is also known as a TV panelist.
Career
Grace's first major acting role was as Miss Mull in ''Custer's Last Stand Up'', a
BAFTA-winning children's television series, and she later acted in a range of Irish domestic and international releases, including work with
Jim Sheridan
Jim Sheridan (born 6 February 1949) is an Irish playwright and filmmaker.
Between 1989 and 1993, Sheridan directed two critically acclaimed films set in Ireland, ''My Left Foot'' and ''In the Name of the Father'', and later directed the film ...
.
She is best known for her role in
David Gordon Green
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In 2 ...
's comedy fantasy film ''
Your Highness
''Your Highness'' is a 2011 American stoner comic fantasy film directed by David Gordon Green. It stars Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel and Justin Theroux. Written by McBride and Ben Best, the film was released on ...
''. She became a full-time novelist and screenwriter in 2011.
Her debut novel, ''When Love Takes Over'', was released by
Poolbeg Press
Poolbeg Press is an Irish book publisher established in 1976.
Genres
It publishes romantic fiction, literary fiction and non-fiction as well as children's fiction.
Authors
Authors published by Poolbeg Press include Maeve Binchy, Patricia Scan ...
on 7 February 2012.
The Irish Times
''The Irish Times'' is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication. It launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Ruadhán Mac Cormaic. It is published every day except Sundays. ''The Irish Times'' is considered a newspaper ...
newspaper named Grace-Cassidy on their list of ''People to Watch'' in 2012.
Since then she has published ''The Other Side Of Wonderful'' (2013), ''I Always Knew'' (2014), ''Already Taken'' (2015), ''The Week I Ruined My Life'' (2016), ''The Importance Of Being Me'' (2017), and ''Bride Squad Runaway'' (2019) with U.K. publishers
Black & White Publishing, with ''The Unforeseen Love Story Of Lexie Byrne'' due in 2021.
Grace-Cassidy has been a regular panelist with
''Midday'', later renamed ''The Elaine Show'', on TV3, now Virgin Media One, since 2012.
She is a creative director at Document Films and a co-founder of the TV and film house Park Pictures.
She has written eight short films: ''Princess Rehab'' (2013), Galway Fleadh-winning ''I AM JESUS'' (2014), ''Torn'' (2014), ''Even Droids Have Friends'' (2015), Cineuropa award-winning ''Love At First Light'' (2015), ''Blackbird'' (2016), ''Reach'' (2017), and ''Run'' (2019). She is the co-writer of ''The Quiet Woman'', which is currently in development with Park Films, supported by Screen Ireland.
As of 2016, Grace-Cassidy's seventh novel, ''Bride Squad Runaway'', was being adapted as a television drama, and a film adaptation of her fifth novel, ''The Week I Ruined My Life'', was announced in 2017.
Personal life
Grace-Cassidy is married to Kevin, with two daughters as of 2016.
References
External links
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Official Facebook page
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Irish television actresses
Irish film actresses
Irish writers
Living people