---
name: "Clare Monnelly"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/clare-monnelly"
fi1m_id: "clare-monnelly"
imdb_id: "nm0598323"
tmdb_id: 1434162
wikidata_id: "Q131379979"
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T17:07:01.111189+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."
---

# Clare Monnelly

## Identity

Clare Monnelly

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/clare-monnelly
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** clare-monnelly
- **IMDb ID:** nm0598323
- **TMDB ID:** 1434162
- **Wikidata ID:** Q131379979
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131379979, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0598323/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1434162

Actor.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Active:** 2012–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 81 (1), 2020s 79 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131379979, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0598323/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1434162

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Moone Boy*](https://film.one/tv/moone-boy.md) (81)

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

## Biography

Clare Monnelly is an Irish actor, writer and director. She is known for playing Fidelma Moone in the Sky One comedy series *Moone Boy* (2012–2015).

She graduated from an acting school in Dublin shortly before being cast in *Moone Boy*. Other television roles include Mary in the RTÉ series *Nowhere Fast* (2017) and Anita Dalton in *The Gone* (2023–2024). Film credits include *Rosie* (2019), *Small Things Like These* (2024) and *Fréwaka* (2024).

Monnelly has written and directed several short films and stage plays, including *Charlie’s a Clepto* and *minefield*. She has worked with Irish theatre companies such as Druid, the Abbey and Livin Dred.

*Sources: imdb.com, comedy.co.uk, thetimes.com, onceoffproductions.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Small Things Like These* (2024), Fi1m 79, as Niamh — [page](https://film.one/film/small-things-like-these.md)
- *Moone Boy* (2012), Fi1m 81, as Fidelma Moone — [page](https://film.one/tv/moone-boy.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *Fréwaka* (2025), as Shoo
- *Small Things Like These* (2024), as Niamh — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/small-things-like-these.md)
- *Cat & Mouse* (2024), Writer
- *The Head on Him* (2024), as Sarah
- *The Innkeeper* (2023), as Ms. Daly
- *Headspace* (2022), as Paula
- *Departure* (2022), as Fiona · Writer, Producer
- *Community Watch* (2022), as Síle
- *Redemption* (2022), series, as Sinead Lunny
- *Doineann* (2021), as Siobhán
- *Sleuth* (2021), as Lisa
- *Rip to the Rescue!* (2020), as Aoife
- *Christy* (2019), as Stacey
- *Where The Wild Things Go* (2019), as Justine
- *Rosie* (2019), as Estate Agent
- *Nowhere Fast* (2017), series, as Mary
- *Moone Boy* (2012), series, as Fidelma Moone — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/moone-boy.md)
- *Storyland* (2009), series, as Claire, Jenny
- *Electric Frank* (1998), as Sarah
- *Ghost Light*, as Sarah
- *Babysitter*, Director
- *Croí*, as Eileen

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