Simone Kirby

Simone Kirby


in Republic of Ireland
Simone Kirby is an Irish actress. She is probably best known for playing Geraldine Grehan in the RTÉ series Pure Mule. She also played Ophelia in Hamlet in 2005 and also appeared in Season of the Witch in 2011. On stage she appeared in The Tinker's Wedding under Garry Hynes for the Druid Theatre Company's Druidsynge for Galway Arts Festival, the Olympia Theatre, and King's Theatre in Edinburgh and also portrayed Nuala in The Cavalcaders under Robin Lefevre and Lady Teasle in The School For Scandal under Jimmy Fay at Dublin's Abbey Theatre.

Movies for Simone Kirby...

Kneecap
Title: Kneecap
Character: Dolores
Released: August 2, 2024
Type: Movie
There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio becomes the unlikely figurehead of a civil rights movement to save the mother tongue.
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Title: Hidden Assets
Character: Bibi Melnick
Released: November 7, 2021
Type: TV
A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small-time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source – not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When these diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, Emer is forced to work with Police Commissioner Christian De Jong.
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Dating Amber
Title: Dating Amber
Character: Jill
Released: July 3, 2020
Type: Movie
Eddie and Amber decide to stage a relationship in order to stop everyone speculating about their sexuality. Eddie is keen to follow his dad into the military, while Amber dreams of moving to the liberal hub of London. The plan seems solid, but as their arrangement begins to fall apart, Eddie’s denial gets deeper as Amber realizes that a perilous future awaits her best friend unless she intervenes.
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Artemis Fowl
Title: Artemis Fowl
Character: Mrs. Byrne
Released: June 12, 2020
Type: Movie
Artemis Fowl is a 12-year-old genius and descendant of a long line of criminal masterminds. He soon finds himself in an epic battle against a race of powerful underground fairies who may be behind his father's disappearance.
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Calm with Horses
Title: Calm with Horses
Character: June
Released: March 13, 2020
Type: Movie
In darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Douglas 'Arm' Armstrong has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family, whilst also trying to be a good father to his autistic five-year-old son, Jack. Torn between these two families, Arm's loyalties are truly tested when he is asked to kill for the first time.
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Title: His Dark Materials
Character: Mary Malone
Released: November 3, 2019
Type: TV
Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology, and magic are intertwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. She is later joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As she learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds.
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Oats & Barley
Title: Oats & Barley
Character: Natalie
Released: November 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Oats and Barley follows a nervous, impressionable young boy called Jamie as he attends his first funeral. Although this isn't your average first funeral. As Jamie nervously arrives at the ceremony, it becomes clear that he is being coerced into a sinister family business.
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The Hole in the Ground
Title: The Hole in the Ground
Character: Louise Caul
Released: March 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.
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Title: Resistance
Character: Ursula Sweeney
Released: January 6, 2019
Type: TV
This follow up to the Rebellion miniseries unfolds at the height of what became known as Ireland's War of Independence, and follows the lives of those caught up in the vicissitudes of history.
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Mother's Day
Title: Mother's Day
Character: Fran Russell Banks
Released: September 3, 2018
Type: Movie
On the day before Mother's Day 1993, Colin and Wendy Parry's lives are torn apart when their youngest son Tim is killed in a terrorist attack by the IRA in Warrington's town centre. The attack shocks ordinary people on both sides of the Irish Sea. Sue McHugh, an unassuming and normally shy Dublin housewife, is deeply affected by the tragedy. Spurred into action by the events in Warrington and the hope that she can make a difference, Sue urges people across Ireland to demonstrate that the killings on all sides must stop. But has Sue underestimated the challenge of brokering peace in a community that has known only conflict? As the grieving Parrys search desperately for answers to their son's senseless killing, they form an alliance with Sue, her husband Arthur, and her Peace '93 movement, travelling to Dublin in a bid to bring about peace and ensure Tim's enduring legacy is one of hope and tolerance. Based on real events.
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Frida Think
Title: Frida Think
Character: Frida
Released: July 16, 2018
Type: Movie
A woman walks into a party dressed as Frida Kahlo, only to find that her version of unique has mass appeal.
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England Is Mine
Title: England Is Mine
Character: Elizabeth Morrissey
Released: August 4, 2017
Type: Movie
A portrait of Steven Patrick Morrissey and his early life in 1970s Manchester before he went on to become lead singer of seminal 1980s band The Smiths.
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The Flag
Title: The Flag
Character: Liz
Released: October 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Builder Harry Hambridge is a down-on-his-luck paddy living in London. In one day he loses his job, father and beloved pet hamster, Mouse. On returning home to bury his father, he finds a statement from his Grandfather, claiming that it was he who raised the flag over the GPO during the 1916 Rising, which now hangs upside-down in an army barracks in England. Too long used to the mockery of his life, he sets out with his motley crew to find that “fecking flag” and maybe his passion for life along the way.
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Notes on Blindness
Title: Notes on Blindness
Character: Marilyn Hull
Released: July 1, 2016
Type: Movie
After losing sight in 1983, John Hull began keeping an audio diary, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. Following on from the Emmy Award-winning short film of the same name, Notes on Blindness is an ambitious and groundbreaking work, both affecting and innovative.
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Title: Alice Through the Looking Glass
Character: Tyva Hightopp
Released: May 25, 2016
Type: Movie
Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
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Title: Houdini & Doyle
Character: Sister Grace
Released: March 13, 2016
Type: TV
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini and Stratton are tasked with the cases that nobody else can solve. It challenges their sense of what is real and what is not. Houdini is a skeptic, while Doyle believes in the unseen. Their diverse viewpoints make solving crime a challenge and often Stratton is put in the middle. The trio will take on cases that involve vampires, ghosts, monsters and poltergeists…or are they a ruse to conceal murder?
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The Truth Commissioner
Title: The Truth Commissioner
Character: Maria Walshe
Released: February 26, 2016
Type: Movie
Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. Eager to make good as a peacemaker, the Prime Minister urges a commission following the South African model of Truth and Reconciliation. But, though Stanfield starts bravely, he quickly uncovers some bloody and inconvenient truths about those now running the country; truths which none of those in power are prepared to have revealed.
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Title: Clean Break
Character: Annette Rane
Released: September 27, 2015
Type: TV
Car dealer Frank Mallon (Adam Fergus, Being Erica) is watching his life fall apart around him. His wife has left, his cars aren't selling, and his teenage daughter is out of control. Desperate for a solution, Frank devises a plan to fix his money problems while also getting revenge on the people who make his life miserable.
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X Moor
Title: X Moor
Character: Patsy
Released: August 25, 2014
Type: Movie
With their sights set on a £25,000 reward promoted by a local newspaper, American documentarians Georgia and Matt head to Exmoor in North Devon to film the fabled beast supposedly slinking through the remote terrain. Is the creature a leopard, a panther, a family pet crossbreed, an imaginary predator? Setting up a forest camp with an old acquaintance harbouring his own dark secrets, the trio fix 42 cameras to the trees and rocks, linked back to a computer nerve centre where nothing should go unnoticed as they take turns to night watch. But then they discover some putrefying body parts all neatly tied up… then some more. And before long they realise they are in the lair of a beast right enough, but certainly not one of the four-legged variety. For they have discovered a serial killer’s playground and are soon to become his most wanted prey.
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Jimmy's Hall
Title: Jimmy's Hall
Character: Oonagh
Released: May 30, 2014
Type: Movie
Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.
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Title: Peaky Blinders
Character: Irene O'Donnell
Released: September 12, 2013
Type: TV
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
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Season of the Witch
Title: Season of the Witch
Character: Midwife
Released: January 7, 2011
Type: Movie
A 14th century Crusader returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. The Church commands the two knights to transport a witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Ophelia
Released: November 19, 2005
Type: Movie
A young Prince is visited by the Ghost of his father and compelled to vengeance - but can he stop thinking for long enough to do it?
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Title: Pure Mule
Character: Geraldine Grehan
Released: September 6, 2005
Type: TV
Multiple award winning drama series written by Eugene O'Brien, produced by David Collins, Ed Guiney and Peter Norris, and directed by Declan Recks and Charlie McCarthy. Pure Mule is set in modern rural Ireland, in a midlands market town. Each of the six episodes of the original series (which first aired on RTE in 2005) focuses in on one particular character from Friday evening to Monday morning.