Eileen Walsh

Eileen Walsh

Born: April 16, 1977
in Cork, Ireland
Eileen Walsh is an Irish film, TV and stage actress. Born on 16 April 1977 in Cork, she initially did not want to be an actress, but soon followed in her elder sister Catherine's footsteps. She earned rave reviews for her performance as Runt in the original stage production of Disco Pigs and gained her first film lead with the titular role in 1999's Janice Beard 45 WPM. She also memorably played the tragic Crispina in Peter Mullan's 2002 film The Magdalene Sisters and in 2008 won Best Actress at the Tribeca Film Festival for her portrayal of Breda in the film Eden.

Movies for Eileen Walsh...

Small Things Like These
Title: Small Things Like These
Character: Eileen Furlong
Released: February 15, 2024
Type: Movie
It is 1985 in the run-up to Christmas in a small town in County Wexford, Ireland. Bill Furlong toils as a coal merchant to support himself, his wife and his five daughters. Early one morning while out delivering coal at the local convent, he makes a discovery that forces him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a town controlled by the Catholic Church.
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The Golden West
Title: The Golden West
Character: Noreen
Released: July 15, 2023
Type: Movie
November, 1849. Having fled the Great Famine, two warring Irish sisters seek their fortunes in the gold rush. But, with winter fast approaching and nothing to show for their efforts, their age-old feud soon threatens to become deadly.
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National Theater Live: The Crucible
Title: National Theater Live: The Crucible
Released: January 26, 2023
Type: Movie
A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller's captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma). Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty power. As a climate of fear, vendetta and accusation spreads through the community, no one is safe from trial. Lindsey Turner (Hamlet) directs this contemporary new staging, design by Tony award winner Es Devlin. Captured live from the Olivier stage of the national theater.
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Ann
Title: Ann
Released: November 17, 2022
Type: Movie
Based on what happened to 15-year-old Ann Lovett in 1984. When she wakes up that morning, Ann feels that it is going to happen that day. She puts on her school uniform, but instead of going to school she is terrified of what is to come and quietly wanders the streets, hoping for human kindness and help, hoping for a miracle, while afraid to approach anyone. As a Catholic school student, she can in the end only count on the blessing of Virgin Mary and thus she gives birth to a baby boy beneath the statue of Our Lady in a grotto near the house of the congregation’s priest.
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Wolf
Title: Wolf
Character: Dr. Angeli
Released: December 3, 2021
Type: Movie
Jacob, a man who believes he is a wolf trapped in a human body, is sent to a clinic by his family where he is forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of "curative" therapies at the hands of The Zookeeper. Jacob’s only solace is the enigmatic Wildcat, with whom he roams the hospital in the dead of night. The two form an improbable friendship that develops into infatuation.
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Title: The South Westerlies
Character: Breege
Released: September 6, 2020
Type: TV
Environmental consultant Kate Ryan goes undercover in a small town to quell objections to a wind farm. But Kate has a complicated history with Carrigeen. Soon after arriving with her son, she runs into an ex-friend and an old flame and realizes her task won't be a breeze.
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Made in Italy
Title: Made in Italy
Character: Astrid
Released: July 9, 2020
Type: Movie
A bohemian artist travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house they inherited from his late wife.
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Rialto
Title: Rialto
Character: Paula
Released: May 8, 2020
Type: Movie
Colm is in his mid-forties, married, with two teenage children. Still grieving the death of his father, a destructive figure in his life, Colm struggles with his relationship to his own son, whilst at work a recent takeover threatens his job. Unable to share his vulnerability with his wife, Colm’s world is falling apart around him. In the midst of this crisis, Colm finds a comfort that no one else can provide but Jay.
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Title: Modern Love
Character: Lily De Courcy
Released: October 18, 2019
Type: TV
An unlikely friendship. A lost love resurfaced. A marriage at its turning point. A date that might not have been a date. An unconventional new family. These are unique stories about the joys and tribulations of love, each inspired by true events.
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Title: Women on the Verge
Character: Alison
Released: October 11, 2018
Type: TV
The lives of three women in their 30s, as they navigate the challenges of life, love and relationships. Whilst everyone else is settling down, married with kids, and increasingly in control of their lives, Laura, Katie and Alison seem to be moving in the opposite direction.
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The Children Act
Title: The Children Act
Character: Naomi Henry
Released: August 1, 2018
Type: Movie
In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.
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Title: Patrick Melrose
Character: Annette
Released: May 12, 2018
Type: TV
A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.
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Maze
Title: Maze
Character: Kate Marley
Released: September 22, 2017
Type: Movie
Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
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Title: Delicious
Character: Marianne Khan
Released: December 30, 2016
Type: TV
Gina is a Cornish chef who is suddenly forced to evaluate her closest relationships. A comedic drama series about food, love and infidelity in Cornwall.
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How Was Your Day?
Title: How Was Your Day?
Released: March 17, 2016
Type: Movie
A woman is excited about the approaching birth of her first child.
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Gold
Title: Gold
Character: Dr. McHenry
Released: February 20, 2014
Type: Movie
An offbeat comedy about an estranged father who returns to his hometown after an absence of ten years in order to reconnect with his daughter and ex-wife but unwittingly finds himself responsible for almost destroying all their lives.
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Morning
Title: Morning
Character: Mary
Released: October 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Mary's (Eileen Walsh) morning is interrupted by a stranger (Johnny Harris) who causes her to confront what she has been hiding from.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Orla Mills
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Triage
Title: Triage
Character: Dr. Christopher
Released: November 13, 2009
Type: Movie
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
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The Ballad of Kid Kanturk
Title: The Ballad of Kid Kanturk
Character: Mona
Released: November 1, 2009
Type: Movie
The film of the song immortalizing Kid Kanturk, the infamous rockabilly singing sensation. A child prodigy, Kid's story encompasses the highs of sell-out shows and the lows of incarceration for an act of cannibalism.
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Eden
Title: Eden
Character: Breda Farrell
Released: November 7, 2008
Type: Movie
A married couple's relationship begins to fall apart as their 10th wedding anniversary approaches.
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The End
Title: The End
Character: Jessica
Released: September 8, 2008
Type: Movie
A middle class American family must fight for survival in a nation being torn apart by the lack of water.
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33X Around the Sun
Title: 33X Around the Sun
Character: Ruth
Released: December 9, 2005
Type: Movie
33 x Around The Sun is a dreamlike journey into a world where nothing is quite what it seems. It follows the story of a man who wakes up in an apparently abandoned hospital then walks out into the night in search of answers. As our hero wanders the mysteriously empty streets he encounters a series of characters who emerge from the shadows like the lost and the damned. These moonstruck individuals all seem to share a connection - a connection that might lead him to the truth he seeks.
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Title: Pure Mule
Character: Therese Farrell
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.
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Nicholas Nickleby
Title: Nicholas Nickleby
Character: The Infant Phenomenon
Released: December 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
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The Magdalene Sisters
Title: The Magdalene Sisters
Character: Crispina
Released: August 30, 2002
Type: Movie
Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly caught flirting with the boys. All have to work in a laundry under the strict supervision of the nuns, who break their wills through sadistic punishment.
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Look
Title: Look
Character: Trish
Released: July 28, 2001
Type: Movie
Wendy works in a small 1-hour photograph developing shop. She is open late one evening and says goodbye to her friend Trish who works next door. When she is an hour away from closing she gets a call from a Mr Stanley to say he will pick his pictures up in an hour. She sets about developing them to find blurry images of bound feet and hands etc. Her fear rises even more when the pictures start to be of her, her house, her at work etc. When the phone rings again Wendy answers it to find that Mr Stanley is coming for his pictures and will not be stopped.
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When Brendan Met Trudy
Title: When Brendan Met Trudy
Character: Siobhan
Released: December 14, 2000
Type: Movie
Brendan is an earnest, introverted schoolteacher who, aside from his participation in the local choir, has only one passion in his life -- the movies. That is until he meets Trudy, a woman who is gregarious and adventurous beyond his imagination. His entire persona changes as he becomes enveloped in her carefree and sometimes dangerous world.
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Miss Julie
Title: Miss Julie
Character: Servant
Released: December 10, 1999
Type: Movie
A footman seduces a count's daughter. Adaptation of August Strindberg's famous play.
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Janice Beard 45 WPM
Title: Janice Beard 45 WPM
Character: Janice Beard
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: Movie
Janice Beard is a dreamer who can't seem to quite make it big. She is working in an auto design company and falls for the mailboy, but he is hiding secrets.
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The Last Bus Home
Title: The Last Bus Home
Character: Carole
Released: October 17, 1997
Type: Movie
Though it is late in the punk rock movement, four Dublin youths get together in 1979 to form their own band. Accurately recounting the energy and rawness of the era, this drama follows their tumultuous and ill-fated journey on the rocky road to success. It takes three long years of unpaid performing for Reena, her lover Jessop, bassist Joe and drummer Petie to make a name for The Dead Patriots. Just as they are about to find real success, internal difficulties arise that leave each of them suspicious and mistrustful of the other.
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The Van
Title: The Van
Character: Crushed Girl
Released: November 29, 1996
Type: Movie
In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy, Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well, but the relationship between the two friends soon becomes strained as Bimbo behaves more like a typical boss.
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Messaggi quasi segreti
Title: Messaggi quasi segreti
Character: 2nd Kid
Released: November 9, 1996
Type: Movie
A wealthy young Italian man is sent to Ireland to learn English, only to fall in love with the daughter of the host family he is staying with.