Olwen Fouéré

Olwen Fouéré

Born: March 2, 1954
in Ireland
Olwen Fouéré is an actress and writer/director in theatre, film and visual arts. She was born on the west coast of Ireland of Breton parents Yann Fouéré and Marie-Magdeleine Mauger. In 2020, she was listed at number 22 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

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The Watchers
Title: The Watchers
Character: Madeline
Released: June 5, 2024
Type: Movie
When 28-year-old artist Mina finds shelter after getting stranded in an expansive, untouched forest in western Ireland, she unknowingly becomes trapped alongside three strangers that are watched and stalked by mysterious creatures each night.
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Tarot
Title: Tarot
Released: May 1, 2024
Type: Movie
When a group of friends recklessly violates the sacred rule of Tarot readings they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate and end up in a race against death.
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All You Need Is Death
Title: All You Need Is Death
Character: Rita Concannon
Released: March 19, 2024
Type: Movie
A young couple who collect rare folk ballads discover the dark side of love when they surreptitiously record and translate an ancient, taboo folk song from the deep, forgotten past.
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Sunrise
Title: Sunrise
Character: Ma Reynolds
Released: January 19, 2024
Type: Movie
When an ex-cop named Fallon returns to the scene of a horrific crime, the residents of a rural town soon discover that this dark visitor is really a vampire who feeds on blood and fear. After he is befriended by a kind immigrant family, the instinctive killer is faced with a choice between revenge and redemption.
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Cult Killer
Title: Cult Killer
Character: Dottie Evans
Released: January 19, 2024
Type: Movie
A private investigator is forced into a dangerous alliance with a killer in order to uncover a quiet town’s grisly criminal underbelly and clear the name of her mentor, who is implicated in the crimes.
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Falling Into Place
Title: Falling Into Place
Character: Judy
Released: December 7, 2023
Type: Movie
A love story set in Scotland and London that follows a romance between Kira and Ian, two 30-somethings who meet while on the run from themselves.
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Radha
Title: Radha
Character: Annie
Released: July 15, 2023
Type: Movie
Rural Ireland. Twelve year old Radha lives a solitary life with her Grandmother. After witnessing the tragic death of a local girl, they find themselves complicit in hiding the truth from the community that surrounds them.
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The Tower
Title: The Tower
Released: June 24, 2023
Type: Movie
Exploring the medieval female mystics who came before the witch trials, it resonates with seismic shifts in Ireland’s cultural and political landscape
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Far Calls
Title: Far Calls
Released: February 24, 2023
Type: Movie
A film about life and death, following the final moments of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, as the river dissolves into the ocean towards the Atlantic horizon.
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Joyride
Title: Joyride
Character: Sideline Sue
Released: July 29, 2022
Type: Movie
A train-wreck on an adventure who is ready to give away her new-born baby. Joined by a cheeky street urchin, they are two diamonds in the rough on the run.
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She Will
Title: She Will
Character: Jean
Released: July 15, 2022
Type: Movie
Veronica, an aging film star, retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse Desi to recover from a double mastectomy. While there, mysterious forces give Veronica the power to enact revenge within her dreams.
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The Northman
Title: The Northman
Character: Áshildur Hofgythja
Released: April 7, 2022
Type: Movie
Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father.
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Title: Halo
Character: The Mother
Released: March 24, 2022
Type: TV
Depicting an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant, the series weaves deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future.
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Title: Holding
Character: as Kitty Harrington
Released: March 14, 2022
Type: TV
Local police officer Sergeant PJ Collins is a gentle man who hides from people and fills his days with comfort food and half-hearted police work. He is one of life's outsiders, lovable, but lonely and a bit rubbish at his job. When the body of long-lost local legend Tommy Burke is discovered, PJ is called to solve a serious crime for the first time in his career. Unearthing long buried secrets, PJ finally connects with the village he has tried so hard to avoid.
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Title: Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Character: Sally Hardesty
Released: February 18, 2022
Type: Movie
After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic influencers who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town.
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Title: The Tourist
Character: Niamh Cassidy
Released: January 1, 2022
Type: TV
When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him.
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Zone 414
Title: Zone 414
Character: Royale
Released: September 3, 2021
Type: Movie
In the near future on a colony of state-of-the-art robots, a private investigator is hired by the colony's creator to bring his missing daughter home.
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Bardo
Title: Bardo
Released: July 23, 2021
Type: Movie
A woman questions her lifestyle choices when the travails of urban living are one day jolted into juxtaposition with a simpler way of life.
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The Tide
Title: The Tide
Character: Night Angler
Released: March 14, 2021
Type: Movie
Once the pride of a North Sea trawler fleet, 'The Annie' struggles to survive in a tide of apathy and neglect. When tragedy threatens her future, the crew strive to define not only themselves but their way of life.
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Sea Fever
Title: Sea Fever
Character: Ciara
Released: June 12, 2020
Type: Movie
The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.
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Violet Gibson, the Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini
Title: Violet Gibson, the Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini
Released: March 3, 2020
Type: Movie
The true and forgotten story of Violet Gibson, daughter of the Lord Chancellor to Ireland, who shot fascist dictator Benito Mussolini at point-blank range as she faced a Fascist mob in Rome in 1926. The film looks at how she almost changed the course of history and the enormous personal price she paid.
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Title: The Feed
Character: Jane
Released: September 16, 2019
Type: TV
In the near future, people’s minds are connected to The Feed, giving them instant connectivity. When something or someone invades it, everyone is at risk.
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Title: Brassic
Character: Margaret
Released: August 22, 2019
Type: TV
A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in northern suburbia. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, on the brink of adulthood, their dealing and stealing is catching up with them and a whole load of trouble is heading their way.
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Animals
Title: Animals
Character: Maureen
Released: August 2, 2019
Type: Movie
Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies whose hedonistic existence falls under the creeping horror of adulthood when Laura gets engaged to Jim – an ambitious pianist who surprisingly decides to go teetotal.
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Title: Nightflyers
Character: Connie
Released: December 2, 2018
Type: TV
In the year 2093, a team of scientists aboard the Nightflyer, the most advanced ship ever built, embarks on a journey to find other life forms. Their mission takes them to the edge of the solar system, and to the edge of insanity, as they realize true horror isn't waiting for them in outer space—it's already on their ship.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Title: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Character: Melusine
Released: November 14, 2018
Type: Movie
Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
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Mandy
Title: Mandy
Character: Mother Marlene
Released: September 13, 2018
Type: Movie
The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.
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Procession
Title: Procession
Released: July 14, 2018
Type: Movie
A bedraggled community of misfits gather to mourn one of their own the only way they know how - an elaborately eccentric folk music funeral
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Beast
Title: Beast
Character: Detective Theresa Kelly
Released: April 18, 2018
Type: Movie
A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.
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Title: Derry Girls
Character: Sheila
Released: January 4, 2018
Type: TV
Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
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The Drummer and the Keeper
Title: The Drummer and the Keeper
Character: Doctor Assif
Released: September 8, 2017
Type: Movie
The Drummer and the Keeper tells the story of the unlikely friendship formed between two young men: Gabriel, a reckless young drummer who revels in rejecting society’s rules and Christopher, a 17-year-old with Asperger’s Syndrome, who yearns to fit in. This heartwarming story shows the strength of the human bond in the face of adversity.
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National Theatre Live: Salomé
Title: National Theatre Live: Salomé
Character: Nameless
Released: June 22, 2017
Type: Movie
An occupied desert nation. A radical from the wilderness on hunger strike. A girl whose mysterious dance will change the course of the world. This charged retelling turns the infamous biblical tale on its head, placing the girl we call Salomé at the centre of a revolution. Internationally acclaimed director Yaël Farber (Les Blancs, Hamlet) draws on multiple accounts to create her urgent, hypnotic production.
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Where is Eva Hipsey?
Title: Where is Eva Hipsey?
Character: Voice Actor
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Where is Eva Hipsey? is an experimental animated film that blends documentary, fiction and poetry. It is based on a short story written by Justin Spooner. The film seeks to convey the power of sound to store and evoke memory. It both recounts and reimagines aspects of his grandmother’s life. The film is told from the vantage point of her granddaughter, voiced by Olwen Fouéré. Where is Eva Hipsey? mixes fact and fiction to search for a truth or representation of Eva’s reality, past and present. It combines experimental animation techniques with archival material taken from both Spooner and Mc Hardy’s grandmothers’ collections; family photographs, vérité camerawork, sketchbooks and field recordings, to suggest a journey. Driven by curiosity and a desire to listen deeply, Eva explores and attempts to capture the world around her, stepping further and further from the familiar.
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Title: The Crown
Character: Oonagh Shanley-Toffolo
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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Traders
Title: Traders
Character: Helen Stynes
Released: March 11, 2016
Type: Movie
What if it made perfect sense for ordinary people to kill each other for money? Better than slow grinding financial ruin and misery, and all done according to a strict code by consenting adults. This is Trading.
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The Survivalist
Title: The Survivalist
Character: Kathryn
Released: April 15, 2015
Type: Movie
In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.
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This Must Be the Place
Title: This Must Be the Place
Character: Mary's Mother
Released: August 24, 2011
Type: Movie
A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.
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The Other Side of Sleep
Title: The Other Side of Sleep
Character: Maggie
Released: May 13, 2011
Type: Movie
Loosely inspired by the director’s own memory of a girl’s disappearance from her village, the film follows Arlene, a young factory worker living alone in a rural Irish community.
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Artaud on Aran
Title: Artaud on Aran
Released: March 25, 2010
Type: Movie
This documentary traces the fateful journey of Antonin Artaud across Ireland in 1937 and explores the Theatre of Cruelty and Ireland's impact on Artaud's life and thought after his deportation and incarceration.
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Title: Above Suspicion
Character: Mrs. Hughes
Released: January 4, 2009
Type: TV
Above Suspicion is a British TV series based on Lynda La Plante's novels Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream. It stars Kelly Reilly and Ciarán Hinds, and features the career of La Plante's latest heroine DC Anna Travis. The first series, Above Suspicion, was shown on the fourth and fifth of January 2009; the second series, Above Suspicion: The Red Dahlia, was shown on the fourth, fifth and sixth of January 2010. The third series, Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent, was shown on the third, fourth and fifth of January 2011. The fourth series, Above Suspicion – Silent Scream was shown on the ninth, sixteenth and twenty-third of January 2012; in a break from the previous broadcasts, which were broadcast on consecutive days, this latest tale was serialised weekly. ITV cancelled Above Suspicion on May 28, 2012.
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Space Truckers
Title: Space Truckers
Character: Building Commander
Released: March 1, 1996
Type: Movie
John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be multitude of unstoppable and deadly killer robots.
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Time After Time
Title: Time After Time
Character: Young Nun
Released: January 26, 1986
Type: Movie
'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when she was the childhood friend of Jasper and his three sisters April, May and June. Now she returns to add a little spice to life in their crumbling Irish country house.
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The Sleep of Death
Title: The Sleep of Death
Character: Second Maid (as Olwen Fouere)
Released: November 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of the beautiful Countess St. Alyre brings him into contact with the Marquis D'Armanville and other odd characters. A series of bizarre murders occur, bringing our hero to the borderland of nightmare.
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The Actor
Title: The Actor
Character: Judge / Old Lady / Neighbor / Wardrobe Woman / Old Man
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
New York actor Paul Cole is beaten and left for dead in 1950s Ohio. Stripped of his memory and stranded in a mysterious small town, Paul struggles to get back home, piece together and reclaim the life and identity he's lost.
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The Irreducible Difference of the Other
Title: The Irreducible Difference of the Other
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
"This experimental film embodies an implicit critique of the male paradigm where the fetishisation of property and privilege has resulted in a global ethical deficit."
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Tarot
Title: Tarot
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
When a group of friends recklessly violates the sacred rule of Tarot readings they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate and end up in a race against death.