Áine Ní Mhuirí (born

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) is an Irish actress. She began her career at the Damer Theatre, later working in the

Abbey Theatre The Abbey Theatre (), also known as the National Theatre of Ireland () is a theatre in Dublin, Ireland. First opening to the public on 27 December 1904, and moved from its original building after a fire in 1951, it has remained active to the p ...

, Ireland. Áine is a fluent

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speaker.

Career

In 1975, she appeared in a play by Irish playwright Teresa Deevy called "Katie Roche" where she played the part of Margaret Drybone. She appeared in the 1987 film,

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne ''The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne'' is a 1987 British drama film made by HandMade Films Ltd. and United British Artists (UBA) starring Maggie Smith and Bob Hoskins. It was directed by Jack Clayton (his final theatrical film) and produced ...

based on the novel by Brian Moore. In 1989 she played Masie Madigan in the London National Theatre production of ''

Juno and the Paycock ''Juno and the Paycock'' is a play by Seán O'Casey. Highly regarded and often performed in Ireland, it was first staged at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1924. It is set in the working-class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s, during the I ...

.'' She played Lily in the Irish 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 RTE, it first aired on Monday, 18 September 1989. It has won several awards and is both the most po ...

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. In 2001, Mhuirí won the CFT Excellence Award for Best Actress in a Television Series for her role as Kathleen Hendley in ''

Ballykissangel ''Ballykissangel'' is a BBC television drama created by Kieran Prendiville and set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young English Roman Catholic priest as he became part of a rural comm ...

''. She appeared in 53 episodes, from 1996 to 2001. In 2012, Áine appeared in Pan Pan Theatre Company's production of Ibsen's '' A Doll House'' at

Smock Alley Theatre Since the 17th century, there have been numerous theatres in Dublin with the name Smock Alley. The current Smock Alley Theatre () is a 21st-century theatre in Dublin, converted from a 19th-century church building, incorporating structural mat ...

. She played Mrs. Taylor in several of the ''Jack Taylor'', an Irish television drama based on a series of novels by

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including "The Magdalen Martyrs" (2011), and "The Dramatist" (2013). Áine Ní Mhuirí is scheduled to play in Embers, a theatricalized presentation of a radio play by

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tra ...

, staged by the Pan Pan Theatre Company at the

Brooklyn Academy of Music The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a multi-arts center in Brooklyn, New York City. It hosts progressive and avant-garde performances, with theater, dance, music, opera, film programming across multiple nearby venues. BAM was chartered in 18 ...

in September 2015."Pan Pan Theatre to Bring Beckett's EMBERS to BAM Next Month." BroadwayWorld.com. August 20, 2015 http://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/Pan-Pan-Theatre-to-Bring-Becketts-EMBERS-to-BAM-Next-Month-20140820#.U_zmI_ldWSo

Career

Filmography

Film

Television

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