Tina Kellegher (born 1967 in
Cavan), is an Irish actress, best known for her work in film and television in the 1990s. She currently plays Ger Lynch in the
RTÉ soap opera ''
Fair City
''Fair City'' is an Irish television soap opera which has been broadcast on RTÉ One since 1989. Produced by the public service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), it first aired on Monday, 18 September 1989. It has won several awa ...
''.
Early career
Kellegher began in theatre, working in Galway in the late 1980s where she played a variety of roles with the
Druid Theatre Company
The Druid Theatre Company, referred to as Druid, is an Irish theatre company, based in Galway, Ireland.
As well as touring extensively across Ireland, the company's productions have played internationally to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the ...
. She also worked with the
Abbey Theatre
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playing, among other roles, Nora Clitheroe in the highly acclaimed production of ''
The Plough and the Stars
''The Plough and the Stars'' is a four-act play by the Irish writer Seán O'Casey that was first performed on 8 February 1926 at the Abbey Theatre. It is set in Dublin and addresses the 1916 Easter Rising. The play's title references the Sta ...
'', opposite
Aidan Kelly
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in 2004.
In 1993 she landed a small role in the
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 fi ...
movie
In the Name of the Father
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. Also in this year, she was cast in one of the roles for which she would become best known: Sharon Curley in
Stephen Frears
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' 1993 film ''
The Snapper.'' Playing the role of a young woman from a working-class Dublin family dealing with an
unintended pregnancy
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opposite
Colm Meaney, she won a British Comedy Award
and a best actress award at the
Valladolid International Film Festival
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. The film remains hugely popular in Ireland and was the seventh highest-rated Irish film on
Rotten Tomatoes
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in 2018,
a quarter of a century after its initial release. Following this success, she was cast in
Scarlett (TV miniseries)
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, which was the most expensive TV miniseries ever made at the time.
In 1996 she joined the
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After ''Ballykissangel'' she mostly worked in theatre and took smaller roles in TV productions. She is also a well-known voice on
on, among other projects, ''Ballykissangel''. They have two sons, Michael, who was born in 2003, and Brian, who was born in 2007. Her brother-in-law is fellow ''Ballykissangel'' star
. Kellegher is currently based in
, where she is a member of the North Westmeath Hospice committee.