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Denise was born in Ireland in 1980 to a father who was an electrician - later a fisheries expert - and a mother who "was pregnant for nine and a half years" since Denise is the seventh of twelve children, her younger sister Kelly, born in 1987, also being an actress. At school she had no theatrical aspirations, leaving at age fifteen and moving to London a year later "to follow a boy." After several years in menial jobs she took a Saturday acting class and won a place at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in Wandsworth - having borrowed the audition fee - and graduated in 2003. In 2004 she made her television debut in Casualty (1986) and has since appeared in many populist series from New Tricks (2003) to Stella (2012). However she has attracted more notice as a stage actress, being nominated in 2012 by the Evening Standard Awards for her roles in 'Our New Girl' and 'Desire Under the Elms' and in 2015 winning universal plaudits as the recovering drug addict in 'People, Places and Things' at the National Theatre.- Actress
- Producer
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Simone plays Mary Malone in the BBC/HBO series, 'His Dark Materials,' and Bibi in the RTE/Acorn series, 'Hidden Assets.'
Simone's film credits include BAFTA nominated feature 'Notes On Blindness' (Archers Mark), playing the female lead, Marilyn, and Ken Loach's feature Jimmy's Hall, playing the female lead, Oonagh.
Other film credits are: Dating Amber (Tilted Pictures), The Hole In The Ground (Savage Productions), Calm With Horses (DMC), Mothers Day (BBC), Alice Through The Looking Glass (Disney), Artemis Fowl (Disney), The Truth Commissioner (BBC), The Flag (Treasure Ent.), England Is Mine (Honlodge), and Season Of The Witch (Lionsgate).
Television credits include 'The One' (Netflix), Resistance/Rebellion 2 (RTE/Netflix), Peaky Blinders (BBC), Silent Witness (BBC), Houdini & Doyle (ITV), Dark Heart (ITV), Clean Break (RTE), Love Hate (RTE), Pure Mule (RTE), Single Handed (RTE/ITV), and as writer and performer in Meet Your Neighbours (RTE), with PJ Gallagher.
For theatre Simone has performed extensively with The Old Vic, Shakespeare's Globe, The Irish Rep in New York, The Abbey Theatre and The Gate Theatre in Ireland, and with Druid, Corn Exchange, and Rough Magic, amongst many others.
Awards and nominations include Best Supporting Actress Drama Nomination (IFTA 2022), Best Supporting Actress Film Nomination (IFTA 2017), Best Actress Film nomination (IFTA 2015), Best actress nomination (Irish Theatre Awards 2004) and winner of The Jayne Snow Award, (Dublin Fringe Festival 2005).- Writer
- Actress
- Production Manager
Edna O'Brien was born on 15 December 1930 in Tuamgraney, County Clare, Ireland. She is a writer and actress, known for Time Lost and Time Remembered (1966), Girl with Green Eyes (1964) and The Hard Way (1980). She was previously married to Ernest Gebler.- Actress
- Additional Crew
Aoife McMahon was born in 1973 in Clare, Ireland. She is an actress, known for Random Passage (2002), Broken (2017) and Assassin's Creed: Valhalla (2020).- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
A UK based character actor of 30-odd years experience in regional theatre, West End productions, national tours, films and hundreds of television programme's ranging from prestigious television drama plays, drama series, comedy-drama series, situation comedy series, narrations, voice-overs and commercials. As a co-founder of XED Film & Television Associates with his writing partner, Allan Bardsley, he is also a script writer. Mike can be contacted at his e-mail address: mikexed@aol.com.- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
- Additional Crew
Johnnie Mortimer's name was not widely known but he was the author of many of television's best known and most fondly remembered comedies. Television critics seldom gave him the credit his talents deserved but his success was unique. With his partner and longtime friend Brian Cooke he wrote series after series which invariably made the Top 10 in the programme-rating charts.
Like many other comedy writers and comedians, Mortimer began as a cartoonist, a hard, demanding occupation where rejection was the rule rather than the exception. But it was this experience and flair as a cartoonist which taught him the lessons of brevity and pace in comedy. The joke had to be made in a single frame.
Radio comedy and partnership with Cooke followed in the early Sixties. They wrote for Round the Horne with great success, leaving them with a lasting affection and admiration for Kenneth Horne. It was in the mid-Sixties that Mortimer turned to television under contract to ABC - the company which later merged with Rediffusion to become Thames. To his eternal credit he wrote for Tommy Cooper - a considerable feat because Cooper's one-liners were so specialised and unique.
In sketch comedy - perhaps the hardest area of television comedy because of the number of ideas it consumes in a single programme - Mortimer and Cooke wrote two series for Bernard Cribbins. Then followed a quite extraordinary run of situation comedies. Father Dear Father, first broadcast in 1968, starring Patrick Cargill, and Man About the House (1973) with Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomsett. The latter series produced two notable spin-offs. The landlord and landlady from Man About the House, played by Brian Murphy and Yootha Joyce, were such a popular creation that they were given their own series George and Mildred (1976). And Robin Tripp, alias Richard O'Sullivan, was launched in his own series with Tessa Wyatt Robin's Nest (1977). Never the Twain (1981), created by Mortimer and starring Donald Sinden and Windsor Davies, remains one of Thames Television's longest-running series.
In addition to his own writing, for eight years Mortimer was comedy adviser to Thames, guiding and helping other writers and contributing ideas to the Light Entertainment Department.
And his success was not confined to Britain alone. Man About the House has the distinction of becoming one of the biggest situation comedy successes in the United States with a cast headed by John Ritter and under the title Three's Company. The US series ran for eight years, starting in 1976, and totalled 174 episodes. George and Mildred and Robin's Nest were also exported to the States but neither could equal the phenomenal success of Three's Company.
Throughout all his years of success as a comedy writer, Mortimer remained totally professional and organised. Deadlines and delivery dates were always met and his office at Teddington Studios featured a wall-chart showing exactly when scripts were to be available. Final drafts would be preceded by a detailed outline of 10 or a dozen pages, often including sample dialogue, and each scene would have a note of the expected duration. The final script would seldom stray from the outline.
Johnnie Mortimer was a great professional and people across the world will be laughing at his programmes for many years to come.- Actor
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Des Lynam was born on 17 September 1942 in County Clare, Ireland. He is an actor, known for Have I Got News for You (1990), World Cup 98 (1998) and Trevor's World of Sport (2003).- Jon Sidney was born on 12 December 1939 in Clare, South Australia, Australia. He was an actor, known for Death of a Soldier (1986), The Day After Halloween (1979) and Homicide (1964). He died on 16 January 1998 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
- Writer
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Colm Flynn was born in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland. He is known for The Ploughing Live (2015), Colm Flynn Show (2021) and RTÉ the History Show (2004).- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Additional Crew
Pete is an Irish Big Wave Surfer, he is also a Firefighter Paramedic in Dublin. Pete is an instructor in jet ski rescue and water safety rescue during big wave events in ireland, Along with Paul O'Kane from Irish Surf Rescue Club and Finn Mullan from the RLNI. He won the Irish Division at the mullaghmore tow-in invitational event in 2011.- Director
- Soundtrack
Michael Tubridy was born in 1935 in Kilrush, Clare, Ireland. He is a director, known for Rob Roy (1995), The Playboy of the Western World (2010) and Camera Three (1955).- Sean Edwards was born on 2 January 1962 in Clare, South Australia, Australia. He is married to Ashleigh Falconer. They have four children.
- Marguerite Brennan was born in County Clare, Ireland. She is known for Scotland Yard Inspector (1952), Recoil (1953) and I Thank a Fool (1962).
- Editorial Department
- Editor
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Joshua Sutherland was born on 22 March 1989 in Clare, South Australia, Australia. Joshua is an editor, known for The Boys Are Back (2009), Crush (2009) and Demography (2012).- Phyllis Valentine was born in 1940 in Seafield, County Clare, Ireland.
- Brigid Young was born in 1939 in Ennistymon, County Clare, Ireland.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Bobby Casey was born in 1926 in Annagh, Miltown Malbay, County Clare, Ireland. He was an actor, known for I Could Read the Sky (1999), The Music of Man (1979) and Open Door (1973). He died on 13 May 2000 in Northamptonshire, England, UK.- Paddy Comber was born on 23 August 1960 in Lahinch, Co. Clare, Ireland. He is an actor, known for Conneely's Choice (1992).
- Rachel Macnamara was born on 16 January 1870 in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland. She was a writer, known for Tell Your Children (1922). She died on 18 October 1947 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- Patrick McDonald was born on 26 July 1878 in Killard, County Clare, Ireland. He died on 16 May 1954 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Mary Robinson was born on 21 May 1944 in County Clare, Ireland. She has been married to Nicholas Robinson since 1972. They have three children.
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James Bredin was born on 18 February 1924 in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland. He was a director and producer, known for Asian Club (1953), Election Results (1959) and Top on Television (1964). He was married to Virginia Meadows. He died on 11 November 1998 in London, England, UK.- Aisling O'Loughlin was born in 1978 in Shannon, County Clare, Ireland.
- Grace Ellenwood was born in January 1886 in Clare, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for By Right of Birth (1921). She was married to Chester E. Ellenwood. She died on 3 January 1961 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
- Seth Michael Harton was born November 9, 1995 in Clare, Mi. to mother, Amanda Marie Heber, and father, Shaun Michael Harton. He grew up playing football, basketball and baseball. He graduated from Clare High School in 2014 and is now attending college at Mid Michigan Community College. He resides in Mt. Pleasant and plans to go into the Medical Field.
- César Flores was born on 16 November 1942 in Clare, Michigan, USA. He is an actor, known for La viuda joven (2011), Mi ex me tiene ganas (2012) and Y los declaro marido y mujer (2006).
- Wayne Terwillinger was born on 27 June 1925 in Clare, Michigan, USA. He died on 3 February 2021 in Weatherford, Texas, USA.