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name: "Deirdre Donnelly"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/deirdre-donnelly"
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:21:07.646681+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."
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# Deirdre Donnelly

Actor. Born in Dublin, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Active:** 1996–2019
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deirdre_Donnelly, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5252561, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0232701/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/192360

## Biography

Deirdre Donnelly is an Irish actress of stage and screen. She trained at the Abbey Theatre School and University College Dublin, where she later completed a master's degree in Modern Drama Studies. A former company member of the Abbey Theatre, she has appeared in numerous stage productions since the early 1970s.

Donnelly is known for her television roles, including Kathy Peters in the RTÉ serial *The Riordans* (1975–1979) and Siobhan Mehigan in the BBC series *Ballykissangel* (1996–2001). She has had recurring parts in series such as *Vikings: Valhalla*, *Fair City*, *Brassic* and *The Virtues* (2019), in which she played Susan. Her film credits include *A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man* (1977), *Cracks* (2009) and *Rialto* (2019). She received an Irish Theatre Award nomination.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Virtues* (2019), Fi1m 82, as Susan — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-virtues.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *#bog* (2024), as Josie
- *Barber* (2023), as Lily Dunne
- *The Woman in the Wall* (2023), series, as Carmel
- *Vikings: Valhalla* (2022), series, as Elder Leader
- *Hidden Assets* (2021), series, as Judge Roxanne Martin
- *Rialto* (2020), as Miriam
- *Brassic* (2019), series, as Mo Dennings
- *The Ferry* (2019), as Bertha
- *The Virtues* (2019), series, as Susan — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-virtues.md)
- *Goodbye Darling* (2016), as Kathleen
- *Quirke* (2014), series, as Sister Dominic
- *Homemade* (2013), as Joan
- *Cracks* (2009), as Miss Lacey
- *Ballykissangel* (1996), series, as Siobhan Mehigan
- *The Lilac Bus* (1990), Acting
- *An Inside Job* (1987), as (voice)
- *The Fantasist* (1986), as Fionnuala Sullivan
- *Attracta* (1983), as Geraldine Carey
- *Criminal Conversation* (1980), as Margaret
- *The Last of Summer* (1978), series, as Jo Kernahan
- *A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man* (1977), as Barmaid
- *The Body Is Water*, as Deirdre

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