Rosaleen Linehan

Rosaleen Linehan

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A Greyhound of a Girl
Title: A Greyhound of a Girl
Character: Emer (voice)
Released: November 23, 2023
Type: Movie
Mary O’Hara is a sharp and cheeky 12-year-old Dublin schoolgirl who is bravely facing the fact that her beloved Granny is dying. But Granny can’t let go of life, and when a mysterious young woman turns up in Mary’s street with a message for her Granny, Mary gets pulled into an unlikely adventure. The woman is the ghost of Granny’s own mother, who has come to help her daughter say good-bye to her loved ones and guide her safely out of this world. She needs the help of Mary and her mother, Scarlett, who embark on a road trip to the past. Four generations of women travel on a midnight car journey. One of them is dead, one of them is dying, one of them is driving, and one of them is just starting out.
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The Personal History of David Copperfield
Title: The Personal History of David Copperfield
Character: Mrs. Gummidge
Released: November 7, 2019
Type: Movie
A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David’s journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of life, colour and humanity.
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Ernestine & Kit
Title: Ernestine & Kit
Character: Kit
Released: March 17, 2016
Type: Movie
Two ladies in their seventies drive through north County Sligo in a neat Japanese car. As they pass by village pubs and beaches, they imagine the terrible, immoral lives people are living today. Their one consolation is the innocence of children… Adapted from a Kevin Barry short story, this is an absurd and macabre tale about how the petty-minded destroy themselves
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Conamara
Title: Conamara
Character: Aine
Released: September 14, 2000
Type: Movie
Maria is a wife and mother in the beautiful, but very remote Connemara region of Ireland. When an old friend from Germany arrives in the place, her life is thrown into turmoil.
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Happy Days
Title: Happy Days
Character: Winnie
Released: August 31, 2000
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Samuel Beckett's absurdist drama. An ordinary woman lives her humdrum life half-buried in a pile of dirt; her husband is partially visible behind her. She goes through her daily routines, ever hopeful that this is going to be a happy day.
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Mad About Mambo
Title: Mad About Mambo
Released: April 4, 2000
Type: Movie
High school student tries to improve soccer skills by practicing dance and falls for his dance partner.
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About Adam
Title: About Adam
Character: Peggy Owens
Released: January 28, 2000
Type: Movie
A waitress falls for a handsome customer who seduces her, her two sisters, her brother, and her brother's girlfriend.
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The Butcher Boy
Title: The Butcher Boy
Character: Mrs. Canning
Released: February 20, 1998
Type: Movie
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.
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The Matchmaker
Title: The Matchmaker
Character: Millie O'Dowd
Released: October 3, 1997
Type: Movie
Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she finds herself in the middle of a matchmaking festival, and the local matchmaker is determined to pair her off with one of the local bachelors.
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Snakes and Ladders
Title: Snakes and Ladders
Character: Nora
Released: November 13, 1996
Type: Movie
A wry story of female friendship: Jean and Kate, two "nearing-thirty" street performers, find the ups and downs of life and love amid the pubs and music scene of modern day Dublin.
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Title: Scarlett
Released: November 13, 1994
Type: TV
Scarlett O’Hara’s flight from the scrutiny of Atlanta society takes her on a journey to Savannah and Charleston, to England, and to Ireland, where she discovers her family's roots.
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Grushko
Title: Grushko
Character: Lena
Released: March 24, 1994
Type: Movie
A restaurant is fire-bombed, a TV journalist and a member of a local mafia are murdered, and a valuable statuette is stolen. Yevgeni Grushko is Head of the Mafia Investigations Division of the local police force, facing new challenges as the internicine gang rivalries escalate towards war on the streets.
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Remember
Title: Remember
Character: Sheila
Released: October 24, 1993
Type: Movie
Nicky Wells, a TV journalist who is renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the worlds most dangerous spots, is haunted by the disappearance of her fiancé.
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Suddenly, Last Summer
Title: Suddenly, Last Summer
Character: Sister Felicity
Released: January 6, 1993
Type: Movie
Catharine Holly, a poor relation of a prominent New Orleans family, seems to be insane after her cousin Sebastian dies under mysterious circumstances on a trip to Europe. Sebastian's mother, Violet Venable, trying to cloud the truth about her son's homosexuality and death, threatens to lobotomize Catharine for her incoherent utterances relating to Sebastian's demise. Under the influence of a truth serum, Catharine tells the gruesome story of Sebastian's death by cannibalism at the hands of locals whose sexual favors he sought, using Catharine as a device to attract the young men (as he had earlier used his mother).
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Hostages
Title: Hostages
Character: Brenda Gilham
Released: September 23, 1992
Type: Movie
True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.
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Fools of Fortune
Title: Fools of Fortune
Character: Aunt Fitzeustace
Released: June 20, 1990
Type: Movie
A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Character: May Dedalus
Released: September 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures of his Catholic home and family. The film charts his search for knowledge and understanding, during a decline in his family's circumstances, that leads him to revelations on the nature of art, beauty and politics. However his personal renaissance makes him feel unwelcome in his own country, and forces him to make a choice between exile as artist or staying and facing personal defeat.