---
name: "Caoilfhionn Dunne"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/caoilfhionn-dunne"
fi1m_id: "caoilfhionn-dunne"
imdb_id: "nm3556036"
tmdb_id: 1914302
wikidata_id: "Q89028059"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-12T19:56:40.052934+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."
---

# Caoilfhionn Dunne

## Identity

Caoilfhionn Dunne

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/caoilfhionn-dunne
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** caoilfhionn-dunne
- **IMDb ID:** nm3556036
- **TMDB ID:** 1914302
- **Wikidata ID:** Q89028059
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caoilfhionn_Dunne, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89028059, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3556036/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1914302

Actor. Born 1 January 1984 in Finglas, Dublin, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1984, Finglas, Dublin, Ireland
- **Active:** 2016–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Tinge Krishnan](https://film.one/person/tinge-krishnan.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as actor, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 83 (2), 2020s 79 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 80 to 77 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Comedy 2, Mystery 2, Horror 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 1 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caoilfhionn_Dunne, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89028059, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3556036/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1914302

## Coming up

- *A Small and Quiet Light* (2026-10-27), as Vogt

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Saint Maud*](https://film.one/film/saint-maud.md) (82)
- **Disney+:** [*A Thousand Blows*](https://film.one/tv/a-thousand-blows.md) (80)
- **Netflix:** [*How to Get to Heaven from Belfast*](https://film.one/tv/how-to-get-to-heaven-from-belfast.md) (78)
- **HBO Max:** [*Industry*](https://film.one/tv/industry.md) (76)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Caoilfhionn Dunne

> Caoilfhionn Dunne makes bluntness compatible with affection, a useful skill when a comedy depends on old friends remaining worth the trouble. Lisa McGee’s *How to Get to Heaven from Belfast* gives us good reason to want more comedy from her.

Dara sounds like someone her friends might find exhausting and still choose to spend the evening with. In *How to Get to Heaven from Belfast* (2026), Caoilfhionn Dunne shares an ease with Roisin Gallagher and Sinéad Keenan that makes years of friendship credible. We warmed to the three of them because their bluntness never made the affection doubtful. That matters when the mystery starts asking us to believe rather less plausible things.

Comedy is a welcome change from the emotionally charged supporting parts that have occupied much of her screen career. *Love/Hate* (2012–14), as Lizzie, brought her wider notice on Irish television, while her stage work has included plays by Conor McPherson. More prominent television parts followed, including Anne Glover in *A Thousand Blows* (2025) and Dara for McGee. Dunne has put it plainly: “I don’t really get to do a lot of comedy, I’ve spent a lot of my career crying at strangers for money.”

We also know her as Jackie Walsh in *Industry* (2020). We found the performances more dependable than the programme’s taste for sex and excess, particularly when those distracted from the office politics. That is an ensemble judgement, rather than a claim that Dunne alone accounts for the series’ appeal. There is a practical connection to Dara, too: she had already used a Belfast accent for Jackie. We would still put more weight on how she works with Gallagher’s Saoirse and Keenan’s Robyn than on the accent.

The reservation is with the writing around her. McGee’s plotting wanders, and some of the silliness feels imposed; the actors cannot make every contrivance convincing. We would like to see Dunne offered more comedy that gives her this much room to establish a friendship, without requiring quite so much tolerance of the plot. Start with *How to Get to Heaven from Belfast*, and give the mystery a little more patience than it always deserves.

## Biography

Caoilfhionn Dunne is an Irish actor. Born in 1984 in Finglas, Dublin, she trained at the Gaiety School of Acting.

She began her career in theatre and received a nomination for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer in 2013 for her role in *The Night Alive*. On television, she played Lizzie in the RTÉ series *Love/Hate* (2012–2014), for which she was nominated for an Irish Film & Television Award, and has appeared as Brearn in *Britannia* (2018), Jackie Walsh in *Industry* (2020–), Anne Glover in *A Thousand Blows* (2025) and Dara in *How to Get to Heaven from Belfast* (2026). Her film credits include *Saint Maud* (2019).

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

## On Fi1m (6)

- *How to Get to Heaven from Belfast* (2026), Fi1m 78, as Dara — [page](https://film.one/tv/how-to-get-to-heaven-from-belfast.md)
- *A Thousand Blows* (2025), Fi1m 80, as Anne Glover — [page](https://film.one/tv/a-thousand-blows.md)
- *Industry* (2020), Fi1m 76, as Jackie Walsh — [page](https://film.one/tv/industry.md)
- *Saint Maud* (2020), Fi1m 82, as Nurse — [page](https://film.one/film/saint-maud.md)
- *Chernobyl* (2019), Fi1m 86, as Yenina — [page](https://film.one/tv/chernobyl.md)
- *Ghosts* (2019), Fi1m 80, as Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/ghosts.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

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

- *A Small and Quiet Light* (2026), as Vogt
- *How to Get to Heaven from Belfast* (2026), series, as Dara — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/how-to-get-to-heaven-from-belfast.md)
- *A Thousand Blows* (2025), series, as Anne Glover — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/a-thousand-blows.md)
- *Doctor Who* (2024), series, as Shaya Costallion
- *Andor* (2022), series, as Lepori — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/andor.md)
- *Industry* (2020), series, as Jackie Walsh — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/industry.md)
- *Saint Maud* (2020), as Nurse — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/saint-maud.md)
- *Chernobyl* (2019), series, as Yenina — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/chernobyl.md)
- *Ghosts* (2019), series, as Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/ghosts.md)
- *The Bisexual* (2018), series, as Esther
- *Britannia* (2018), series, as Brearn
- *In View* (2016), as Ruth
- *Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wild* (2016), as Woman
- *Wild* (2016), as Woman
- *Wrath of the Titans* (2012), as Woman 1
- *Love/Hate* (2010), series, as Lizzie
- *Corduroy* (2009), as Jessie

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