Emer Gillespie

Emer Gillespie

Emer Gillespie is an actress and writer, known for The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Chimera (1991) and Troubles (1988).

Movies for Emer Gillespie...

Belly
Title: Belly
Character: Mrs H
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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Title: So You Think You've Got Troubles
Character: Louise Nathan
Released: October 17, 1991
Type: TV
Six-part comedy series about a Londoner, and non-practising Jew, is sent by his boss to Northern Ireland to run a tobacco company.
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Title: Chimera
Character: Nurse Tracy Pickford
Released: July 7, 1991
Type: TV
A journalist investigates the death of his girlfriend at a fertility clinic where she worked and uncovers a plot to create a new breed of human based on crossing the genetics of man and ape.
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Title: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Character: Patricia
Released: October 13, 1989
Type: Movie
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
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Title: Troubles
Character: Sarah Devlin
Released: May 1, 1988
Type: TV
In 1919, Major Brendan Archer arrives in Ireland to reunite with his fiancée, Angela Spencer. Unfortunately, the family home, The Majestic Hotel, is a decaying shadow of its former self, as is Angela. Puzzled by the changes, Archer's attentions are soon drawn to her lively friend, Sarah Devlin, a passionate Irish Nationalist. They fall in love, but the Major soon discovers some disturbing aspects about their relationship, which threatens to explode into violence, destruction, and murder.
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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Title: Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Character: Eva
Released: October 30, 1987
Type: Movie
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's father, Rafi, who is a former Indian government minister, comes to London for a visit. Sammy, Rosie, and Rafi try to find meaning through their lives and loves.
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The Shutter Falls
Title: The Shutter Falls
Character: Ceit
Released: September 16, 1987
Type: Movie
A 19th Century photographer travels to the North of Scotland to document the fishing industry, where he falls in love with one of the Gaelic-speaking fish gutting girls.
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Boy Soldier
Title: Boy Soldier
Character: Deirdre
Released: January 30, 1987
Type: Movie
A young Welsh soldier on duty in Northern Ireland finds himself used as a political pawn, following a tragic incident during a violent clash with some of the local agitators. The Guardian proposed that "if Spielberg's ET, in the immortal words of Pauline Kael, was a bliss out, Karl Francis' 'Boy Soldier' is a bleed out for sheer fist shaking emotionalism, it would be hard to find another British film of recent years to beat it."
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Title: Casualty
Character: Miss Harris
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: Bergerac
Character: Angie
Released: October 18, 1981
Type: TV
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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The Long March
Title: The Long March
Character: Mona
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.