---
name: "Emily Taaffe"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/emily-taaffe"
fi1m_id: "emily-taaffe"
imdb_id: "nm3008893"
tmdb_id: 1370602
wikidata_id: "Q18708788"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "10 January 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-07T17:33:37.651711+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."
---

# Emily Taaffe

## Identity

Emily Taaffe

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/emily-taaffe
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** emily-taaffe
- **IMDb ID:** nm3008893
- **TMDB ID:** 1370602
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18708788
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Taaffe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18708788, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3008893/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1370602

Actor. Born 10 January 1984 in Drogheda, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 10 January 1984, Drogheda, Ireland
- **Active:** 2011–present
- **Also known as:** Emily Taafe 
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 68 (2), 2020s 80 (2)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Crime 1, Horror 1, Mystery 1, War & Politics 1
- **Screen time:** 2 hours of reviewed films
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Taaffe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18708788, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3008893/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1370602

## Biography

Emily Taaffe is an Irish actress. She was born on 10 January 1984 and grew up near Drogheda, County Louth. She studied Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin, graduating with first-class honours in 2005, and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Taaffe has worked extensively in British theatre, with leading roles at the National Theatre and with the Royal Shakespeare Company. On screen, she is known for roles including Dr Hayes in *His House* (2020), Katya in *War and Peace* (2016), Tamara in *Beast* (2018), and Betty McGeown in the 2025 series *Trespasses*. She has also appeared in *The Borgias* (2011), *Call the Midwife* (2012), *Death in Paradise* (2011), *Ripper Street* (2012), *Vera* (2011), *Atlantis* (2013) and *Stan Lee's Lucky Man* (2016). In 2016 she married the writer Ben Schiffer.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Trespasses* (2025), Fi1m 80, as Betty McGeown — [page](https://film.one/tv/trespasses.md)
- *His House* (2020), Fi1m 79, as Dr. Hayes — [page](https://film.one/film/his-house.md)
- *War and Peace* (2016), Fi1m 65, as Katya — [page](https://film.one/tv/war-and-peace.md)
- *Vera* (2011), Fi1m 72, as Janna Jeffries — [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

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

- *Trespasses* (2025), series, as Betty McGeown — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/trespasses.md)
- *Little Disasters* (2025), series, as Mel
- *The Rising* (2022), series, as Maria Kelly
- *Rare Beasts* (2021), as Becky
- *Night Bus* (2020), as Voice of advertisement
- *His House* (2020), as Dr. Hayes — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/his-house.md)
- *The Dig* (2019), as Roberta McKenna
- *VS.* (2018), as Lisa
- *Fishboy* (2018), as Laura (voice)
- *Beast* (2018), as Tamara
- *Paula* (2017), series, as Laurence
- *Little Bird* (2017), as Prudence Willis · Writer, Producer
- *Stan Lee's Lucky Man* (2016), series, as Mel
- *War and Peace* (2016), series, as Katya — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/war-and-peace.md)
- *X Company* (2015), series, as Siobhan
- *Atlantis* (2013), series, as Elpis
- *Ripper Street* (2012), series, as Mary Tait — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/ripper-street.md)
- *Call the Midwife* (2012), series, as Faye Rawle — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md)
- *Death in Paradise* (2011), series, as Megan Colley / Emer Byrne
- *National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard* (2011), as Dunyasha
- *Vera* (2011), series, as Janna Jeffries — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md)
- *The Borgias* (2011), series, as Gabrielle Visconti / Sforza
- *Rainbow Magic: Return to Rainspell Island* (2010), as Izzy (Voice)
- *National Theatre Live: Nation* (2010), as Daphne
- *New Tricks* (2004), series, as Emma
- *Lincoln in the Bardo*, as Mary Todd Lincoln

## Gallery

- ![Emily Taaffe](https://film.one/media/person/23607/gallery-a8c8ffe00729.jpg) Emily Taaffe — Ben Schiffer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Emily_Rehearsal_Shot.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Emily Taaffe](https://film.one/media/person/23607/gallery-c28e96831639.jpg) Emily Taaffe — Image via TMDB

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