Orla Brady

Born: March 28 1961
Where: Dublin, Ireland

The actress is probably best known for the role of Sheila Cloney in the movie A Love Divided about marriage between a Catholic and Protestant in 1950s Ireland.

She won the Monte Carlo Film and Television Festival's best actress award as being nominated for the Irish Film and Television best actress award.

After studying acting at the Ecole Phillippe Gaulier in Paris she returned to Dublin to play Adela in the House of Bernarda Alba at the Gate Theatre.

She made her TV debut in Joanna Trollope's The Rector's Wife and went on to play such diverse characters as a Russian aristocrat in The Luzhin Defence and a veterinarian in Noah's Ark.

Brady also played a homicide detective in Out of the Blue and a lawyer in Family Law as well as a hunger-striking political prisoner in Silent Grace.

Recent work includes Fogbound with Luke Perry as well as the British TV drama The Debt with Warren Clarke.