Tara MacGowran

Tara MacGowran

Born: November 6, 1964
in London, United Kingdom
TARA MACGOWRAN has worked in television, film and theatre in the UK, Ireland and USA since appearing in ‘Children of the New Forest’ for the BBC at the age of 12. She lived and worked in the USA for some time appearing at The Great Lakes Shakespeare Theatre Festival in Cleveland, Ohio and The Attic Theatre, Detroit among others, before returning to London for her first major film appearance as Patience in ‘Secret Places’ for which she won the Bronze Mask at the Taormina Film Festival.

Other film credits include: ‘The Dawning’, ‘Memoirs of a Survivor’ and ‘Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming’. Television includes: ‘Children of the New Forest’ (BBC) , ‘Miss Marple: Murder at the Vicarage’ (BBC), ‘Tropical Moon Over Dorking’ (Limehouse), ‘Murder in Eden’ (BBC) and ‘Spring Cleaning’ (RTE). Theatre includes: ‘Aristocrats’ – Hampstead Theatre, ‘Hinkemann’ – The Old Red Lion and ‘Translations’. Upcoming film releases include: ‘Mummy Reborn’, ‘Krampus vs Vikings’ and ‘End Game’.

Having spent several years travelling, as a journalist and photographer, covering tournament chess with husband Michael Adams, Tara returned to acting in 2014.

Movies for Tara MacGowran...

The Loch Ness Horror
Title: The Loch Ness Horror
Character: Tara
Released: November 7, 2023
Type: Movie
A vanished submarine prompts a rescue operation that leads to the Loch Ness monster. Having escaped the Loch, the creature unleashes decades of pent-up aggression on those it encounters.
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It Came from Below
Title: It Came from Below
Character: Georgie
Released: August 23, 2021
Type: Movie
A group of friends find themselves hunted down in the caves by a creature... from another world.
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Virtual Death Match
Title: Virtual Death Match
Character: Melinda
Released: January 4, 2020
Type: Movie
A group of gamers are selected to take part in a VR competition where only the fittest will survive.
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Pagan Warrior
Title: Pagan Warrior
Character: Millicent
Released: November 11, 2019
Type: Movie
After a savage gang of Vikings invade a Saxon Castle, murdering all in sight, one surviving man calls upon Krampus, the Yule devil to come to exact revenge for his family.
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Meine Cousine, die Liebe und ich
Title: Rosamunde Pilcher: Meine Cousine, die Liebe und ich
Character: Martha
Released: October 30, 2019
Type: Movie
Holly Shaw wants to prove her writing talent in a reading of her romance novel. But she achieves the exact opposite with the cynical reporter Aaron Kingsley. On the way to her car, Holly is attacked. Her papers, her books, her coat and her shoes are found by the police on the riverbank.
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Mummy Reborn
Title: Mummy Reborn
Character: Karen
Released: April 1, 2019
Type: Movie
When a group of teens in financial ruin decide to rob the local antique store, they discover an old wooden tomb containing a Mummy's corpse and an ancient amulet. But what they don't realise is that this tomb is cursed, and when the amulet is separated from it's master, he will do anything to get it back. Our burglars must save the day and return the Mummy to it's tomb before it is too late to save the world.
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Mandy the Haunted Doll
Title: Mandy the Haunted Doll
Character: Diane
Released: June 19, 2018
Type: Movie
Three burglars will soon realise they are not alone in a manor house when they discover a doll mysteriously appearing.
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Dirty Work
Title: Dirty Work
Character: Dungeon House Mother
Released: February 3, 2018
Type: Movie
Arabella, a struggling fashion designer takes on a job working as a personal shopper for Marylin- a successful erotic novelist. One day, Arabella is sneakily trying on some of Marilyn's expensive garments, when Marylin unexpectedly comes home early......but she is not alone. Arabella hides and watches as Marilyn enters with an attractive man who is not her husband. The pair make love on the bed and Arabella is turned on by what she sees. Arabella continues to hide and watches Marilyn's many affairs take place in the bedroom, until one day she is caught by Marilyn who admits that she knew Arabella had been watching the whole time. Things get steamy between the pair, but soon they will be confronted by someone who knows about their affair and will do anything to stop it.
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Mother Krampus
Title: Mother Krampus
Character: Frau Perchta
Released: October 8, 2017
Type: Movie
Based on the myth of Frau Perchta, a witch that comes on the 12 days of Christmas taking children each night.
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House on Elm Lake
Title: House on Elm Lake
Character: Julie Soskin
Released: September 11, 2017
Type: Movie
A man convinced that Lucifer was within him brutally murdered his wife and child in satanic sacrifice. Now, years later, Eric, Hayley and their daughter Penny, move into the same house after being left unsold on the market.
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Darker Shades of Elise
Title: Darker Shades of Elise
Character: Detective Carter
Released: July 10, 2017
Type: Movie
Elise's life takes a sharp turn for the worst when she meets a mysterious and alluring stranger who has more than friendship on his mind - A tale of love, fantasy and obsession.
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Fox Trap
Title: Fox Trap
Character: Mrs. Johnson
Released: December 31, 2016
Type: Movie
After a terrible accident leaves a young girl disabled, five years later, the group responsible are invited to a remote manor house in the countryside for a class reunion. Little do they know, they are being targeted by a masked maniac hell bent on revenge.
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Deadly Waters
Title: Deadly Waters
Character: Mother Siren
Released: June 1, 2015
Type: Movie
A young man falls in love with a seductive, sultry, young woman he meets on the beach. The more he falls for her, the more he will learn the dangers of falling in love with a siren.
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The Vanishing Man
Title: The Vanishing Man
Character: Secretary
Released: April 2, 1997
Type: Movie
While Nick Cameron is returning to England from the continent with mysterious cargo in the cabin section of his small aircraft, he is thrown off-course by a severe electrical storm and loses radio contact. To his surprise and horror, he is arrested upon landing and accused of being a traitor in connection with the cargo he has been carrying - which, unknown to him, contained plutonium. Although he pleads innocent, Nick is not believed and is sentenced to a long term in prison. While in prison, he is subjected to special experimentation at a mysterious laboratory - with one unnerving, and unexpected, side-effect of the experiments being intermittent invisibility. —David McAnally
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Title: Murder in Eden
Character: Nora Hession
Released: July 19, 1991
Type: TV
Murder in Eden is a British television series directed by Nicholas Renton and featuring Ian Bannen, Peter Firth and Alun Armstrong. It was first aired on the BBC in 1991 in three episodes of 55 minutes. It was set in a remote part of rural County Donegal where a landlord of a pub murders his barmen. He is blackmailed by one of the other inhabitants, while the police are busy hunting for the killer. It was based on the novel Bogmail by Patrick McGinley.
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The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
Title: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
Character: Daphne
Released: March 5, 1990
Type: Movie
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming follows the exciting life of a dashing young Ian Fleming, the mastermind behind the highly successful James Bond books and movies.
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The Dawning
Title: The Dawning
Character: Maeve
Released: June 8, 1988
Type: Movie
An IRA gunman on the run from the government meets an idealistic young woman and attempts to win her support for his cause.
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Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
Title: Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
Character: Lettice Protheroe
Released: December 25, 1986
Type: Movie
Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Ms. Warner
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Miss Marple
Character: Lettice Protheroe
Released: December 26, 1984
Type: TV
Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English crime writer Agatha Christie, is portrayed by Joan Hickson who starred in a dozen television mysteries about Miss Marple over the course of a decade.
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Secret Places
Title: Secret Places
Character: Patience
Released: May 11, 1984
Type: Movie
Young girls, soon to be women, sharing everything...except their secret places.
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Memoirs of a Survivor
Title: Memoirs of a Survivor
Character: Jill
Released: September 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic society. D (Julie Christie) is living in a city that's at the point of collapse following a catastrophic nuclear war; lawlessness and violence rule the day, and gangs of brutal youth roam the streets. With the help of her teenage companion Emily (Leonie Mellinger), D tries to make her way, and in order to cope, she often escapes into a fantasy world in which she lives in genteel Victorian surroundings in the 19th century.