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name: "Bríd Ní Neachtain"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brid-ni-neachtain"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T08:35:52.155147+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Bríd Ní Neachtain

Actor. Born 1 January 1959 in Galway, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1959, Galway, Ireland
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%ADd_N%C3%AD_Neachtain, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4981847, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639119/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1907071

## Biography

Bríd Ní Neachtain is an Irish actress born in 1959 in Galway. A native of Connemara, she began her career in her late teens at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, initially as an assistant stage manager before taking acting roles in Irish- and English-language productions. She later appeared in the TG4 soap *Ros na Rún*.

She is known for her stage performance in Brian Friel's *Dancing at Lughnasa* and film roles including Caitríona Phaidín in *Cré na Cille* (2007), Mrs. O'Riordan in *The Banshees of Inisherin* (2022), Róise in *Róise & Frank* (2022) and Peig in *Fréwaka* (2024). She appeared on an Irish postage stamp in 2008 depicting her *Cré na Cille* character.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Banshees of Inisherin* (2022), Fi1m 84, as Mrs. O'Riordan — [page](https://film.one/film/the-banshees-of-inisherin.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Fréwaka* (2025), as Peig
- *Minghun* (2024), as Lihua
- *I Found a Place* (2024), Actor
- *Clodagh* (2024), as Mrs Kelly
- *The Christmas Break* (2023), as Nadine Reilly
- *Advent* (2023), as Peggy
- *The Banshees of Inisherin* (2022), as Mrs. O'Riordan — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-banshees-of-inisherin.md)
- *Róise & Frank* (2022), as Róise
- *Song of Granite* (2017), as Teacher
- *Dominion Creek* (2015), series, as Belinda Mulrooney
- *Storyland* (2009), series, as Mags
- *Frankie* (2007), as School Principal
- *Cré na Cille* (2007), as Caitríona Phaidín
- *Clare sa Spéir* (2001), as Clare
- *Lipservice* (1999), as Sile Ni Chinneide

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