Ger Ryan

Ger Ryan

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Ger Ryan is an Irish film and television actress, whose credits include Queer as Folk, The War of the Buttons, The Van, Moll Flanders, Driftwood, A Love Divided and Intermission.

Ryan has worked extensively in theatre, television and film. She has been twice nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for Family and Amongst Women, and three times nominated by IFTA for Amongst Women, Intermission and The Return. She is also a recipient of a Belfast Telegraph EMA Award in for her work on A Place with the Pigs and Song of the Yellow Bittern. In 2007, she received an IFTA for her work on the two-part docu-drama, Stardust, by RTÉ. She also played Margie McEvoy in all three series of the award-winning BBC drama series, The Street, with Timothy Spall. Most recently, she has played the role of Maeve Harte in RTÉ's popular drama series, Raw.

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Title: Back to Barrytown
Character: Self
Released: May 16, 2021
Type: TV
Colm Meaney presents a celebration of Roddy Doyle's trilogy about Dublin family the Rabbittes and the film adaptations of the books, The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van.
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Title: Three Families
Character: Kathleen
Released: May 10, 2021
Type: TV
Dramatisation of three real-life stories of how three families were each affected by Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion law before it was lifted in 2019.
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Title: The South Westerlies
Character: Noreen
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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Rialto
Title: Rialto
Character: Kathleen
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: Little Dog
Character: Sylvia Ross
Released: March 1, 2018
Type: TV
Pro-boxer Tommy “Little Dog” Ross, the favourite to win a Championship Belt, has a world-class meltdown in the middle of the fight and walks out of the ring. We meet up with him again five years later, living a life of general self-destruction, when he is caught on video in a bar fight, prompting old rival Rico “Havoc” St. George to challenge him to a title rematch. Tommy struggles to get the noise of his strong-willed family out of his head in order to make the decision of whether or not to get back in the ring.
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
Title: The Man Who Invented Christmas
Character: Mrs. Dickens
Released: October 12, 2017
Type: Movie
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
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Love, Rosie
Title: Love, Rosie
Character: Alice Dunne
Released: October 16, 2014
Type: Movie
Since the moment they met at age 5, Rosie and Alex have been best friends, facing the highs and lows of growing up side by side. A fleeting shared moment, one missed opportunity, and the decisions that follow send their lives in completely different directions. As each navigates the complexities of life, love, and everything in between, they always find their way back to each other - but is it just friendship, or something more?
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The Callback Queen
Title: The Callback Queen
Character: Mary Carroll
Released: July 10, 2013
Type: Movie
In the cut-throat London film industry a vivacious actress chasing her big break struggles to maintain her integrity in the face of the director's advances.
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Hummingbird
Title: Hummingbird
Character: Mother Superior
Released: May 7, 2013
Type: Movie
Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity, transforming into an avenging angel in the process.
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Title: Raw
Character: Maeve Harte
Released: September 8, 2008
Type: TV
The lives and loves of the young staff who work in a successful Dublin restaurant and the intense friendships and bitter rivalries that blossom in the heat of the kitchen.
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Dorothy Mills
Title: Dorothy Mills
Character: Eileen McMahon
Released: August 6, 2008
Type: Movie
When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the assault of an infant, a psychiatrist is called in to examine Dorothy Mills, the teenager accused of the crime. Despite the villagers' hostility to her inquiry, she soon comes to suspect that Dorothy suffers from multiple personality disorder...
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Exodus
Title: Exodus
Character: Batya
Released: September 4, 2007
Type: Movie
The story of Exodus is relocated to the seaside town Margate. Moses lives in the Promised Lands with his adoptive parents, until he finds his mother in the shanty town, Dreamland, where she’s been ghettoised with other ‘undesirables’. He takes on his father, Pharaoh, and leads a radical campaign to liberate the people of Dreamland.
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Damage
Title: Damage
Character: Liz Maher
Released: June 24, 2007
Type: Movie
Set in affluent, contemporary, south-side Dublin, the Cahills appear to have the world at their feet. Dad Aidan, is a successful property tycoon, his wife Michelle, a successful estate agent and their fashion model daughter, Emma's 21st birthday party at the family home should be a night to remember. That night however, a rape at the party shatters their seemingly perfect lives. With the key suspect released on bail, and dark family secrets coming to the fore, Emma's life begins to free-fall. Slowly, having made radical changes to her life, Emma builds towards recovery - until a chance meeting with her rapist bolsters her conviction that she'll need to confront him in court before she can get on with her life.
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Title: The Street
Character: Margie McEvoy
Released: April 13, 2006
Type: TV
Anthology drama following the lives and passions of neighbors on a northern English street.
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Title: Stardust
Character: Christine Keegan
Released: February 12, 2006
Type: TV
'Stardust' is a 2006 miniseries produced for RTÉ by Brackside Merlin Films. The first episode surrounds the night a fire broke out at the Stardust Disco in North Dublin on 13 February 1981, in which 48 people died. The second episode depicts the search for answers and justice by families and survivors. It was screened over two nights on the 25th anniversary of the fire in 2006.
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Frozen
Title: Frozen
Character: Elsie
Released: March 12, 2005
Type: Movie
It's two years since the mysterious disappearance of Kath Swarbrick's older sister Annie, but Kath remains haunted by a need to know what happened. When police investigations wind down, Kath continues the search herself. She gets nowhere until she steals some CCTV footage of her sister on her final day. Visiting the spot where Annie was filmed, Kath becomes convinced she has found a portal to another reality and from this portal Kath is trying to say something.
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The Return
Title: The Return
Character: Maggie
Released: December 30, 2003
Type: Movie
A former alcoholic returns home after ten years in prison for the murder of her husband. As her recollection of the murder returns, things take a different turn.
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Intermission
Title: Intermission
Character: Maura
Released: August 29, 2003
Type: Movie
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
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Sinners
Title: Sinners
Character: Niamh
Released: March 26, 2002
Type: Movie
Powerful drama set in 1960s Ireland about a young, unmarried mother-to-be whose family sends her to a convent. There, out of sight of society, her work in the laundry provides her with close friendships, which bring hope and relief from daily prayer and penance. (Radio Times)
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Title: No Tears
Character: Siobhan Cassidy
Released: January 14, 2002
Type: TV
Based on the hepatitis C scandal that rocked Ireland in the mid-1990s. Two very different women discover that they have been infected with hepatitis C by a contaminated anti-D injection years before. Despite the devastating effects on the women and their families, they unite in a campaign group to take on the health authorities and expose the evasions and lies of the political and bureaucratic establishment.
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Forgive and Forget
Title: Forgive and Forget
Character: Ruth O'Neil
Released: June 12, 2000
Type: Movie
David O'Neil, a plasterer and mature student Theo have been best mates for fourteen years and are practically inseparable. However, their friendship has become strained as Theo is about to move in with his long-term girlfriend, photographer Hannah. A raging jealousy awakes in David and he starts scheming to break up the loving couple using Hannah's insecurities against them. When the couple eventually separate David is in a quandary about his next move and is forced to confront his long-hidden homosexuality and feelings towards Theo. Eventually, David decides to reveal his sexual orientation and deep love for Theo very publicly by arranging for them both to appear as guests on Judith Adams' talk-show, "forgive and forget", with tragic consequences for their friendship and David's family.
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Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Mrs. Sowerberry
Released: November 28, 1999
Type: TV
Oliver Twist is a 1999 television mini-series produced by ITV based on the book Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
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Title: Queer as Folk
Character: Margaret Jones
Released: February 23, 1999
Type: TV
Stuart Jones has got it all. He's rich, drop-dead gorgeous and always the centre of attention. He can be forgiven the arrogance because he's pretty close to perfection. His best mate Vince Tyler is funny, adorable and definitely a babe but, unlike his friend, has zero confidence in himself. Since time began, Vince has carried a torch for Stuart but his love remains firmly unrequited. They're both 29, hitting Canal Street every night, stalwarts of the scene but just starting to wonder where else their lives may be going. Then along comes Nathan Maloney. Young, wild and coming out with a vengeance, he crowbars his way into their world and once he arrives, nothing is ever the same again.
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Northern Lights
Title: Northern Lights
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
In this coming of age story, Anne Marie (a Dublin teenager) expresses her desire to see the Northern Lights. However, her trip is complicated when she must contend with an art heist and her abusive father.
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Title: Amongst Women
Character: Rose
Released: July 15, 1998
Type: TV
Based on the novel by John McGahern and set in Ireland in the 1950s, the series tells the story of Moran and his children. Especially the girls find it difficult to get away from the influence of their despotic father and start living their own lives.
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Title: Plotlands
Character: Grainne Mulligan
Released: May 18, 1997
Type: TV
Sold a small plot of land for a tiny outlay, Cockney widow Chloe Marsh and her two daughters flee the slums of post-war London for a better life in the country. But rural life in 1922 is hard. Chloe and her fellow pioneers have no mains water, no gas, no electricity, and no jobs. Forced to live in tents until they can afford a shack, they carve a community out of the hostile countryside.
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The Van
Title: The Van
Character: Maggie
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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Moll Flanders
Title: Moll Flanders
Character: Orphanage Woman
Released: June 14, 1996
Type: Movie
The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest lead Moll to rebel as a teenager, escaping to the dangerous streets of London. Further misfortunes drive her to accept a job as a prostitute from the conniving Mrs. Allworthy. It is there that Moll first meets Hibble, who is working as Allworthy's servant but takes a special interest in the young woman's well-being. With his help, she retains hope for the future, ultimately falling in love with an unconventional artist who promises the possibility of romantic happiness.
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After 68
Title: After 68
Released: October 1, 1994
Type: Movie
The story of Frieda, a young girl growing up in strife-torn late 1960's Derry, and her attempts to have a normal adolescence despite the violence which surrounds her.
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War of the Buttons
Title: War of the Buttons
Character: Fergus' Mum
Released: September 29, 1994
Type: Movie
War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.
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Family
Title: Family
Character: Paula Spencer
Released: May 8, 1994
Type: Movie
This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie's thievery and adultery without the will to chuck him out. John Paul worships his father who's initiating him into the world of beer and football but recoils at Charlo's treatment of mum; asthma and misbehavior at school follow. Daughter Nicola is a young woman, starting work in a garment factory. When Charlo begins to stare at her, she's frightened and Paula's furious.
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Title: Family
Character: Paula Spencer
Released: May 3, 1994
Type: TV
The Spencer family live in a working class estate in Dublin.
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The Commitments
Title: The Commitments
Character: Pawnbroker
Released: August 14, 1991
Type: Movie
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
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The Courier
Title: The Courier
Character: Assistant in Jewellers
Released: February 10, 1988
Type: Movie
When a courier at the D-Day Courier Service mistakenly finds a pile of money in his regular delivery, he does some digging only to discover that the messenger company is a front for a drug ring. A reformed drug user himself, he sets out to crack the lethal ring.