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name: "Ger Ryan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ger-ryan"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1950"
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average_fi1m_score: 78
updated: "2026-09-17T01:22:42.106322+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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# Ger Ryan

Actor. Born 1 January 1950 in Dublin, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1950, Dublin, Ireland
- **Active:** 1991–2006

## Biography

Ger Ryan is an Irish film and television actress. She played Margie McEvoy in the BBC drama series *The Street* (2006–2009).

Her other credits include *The Commitments* (1991), *War of the Buttons* (1994), *Moll Flanders* (1996), *Intermission* (2003), *Dorothy Mills* (2008), *Love, Rosie* (2014) and *The Man Who Invented Christmas* (2017). She has also appeared in *Queer as Folk* (1999) and *Raw* (2010–2013).

Ryan has received IFTA nominations for *Amongst Women*, *Intermission* and *The Return*, and won an IFTA for her work on the RTÉ docu-drama *Stardust* (2006). She has been nominated twice for Royal Television Society Awards.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Street* (2006), Fi1m 74, as Margie McEvoy — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-street.md)
- *Queer as Folk* (1999), Fi1m 79, as Margaret Jones — [page](https://film.one/tv/queer-as-folk.md)
- *The Commitments* (1991), Fi1m 82, as Pawnbroker — [page](https://film.one/film/the-commitments.md)

## Also known for

- *Love, Rosie* (2014), Alice Dunne
- *Hummingbird* (2013), Mother Superior
- *The Man Who Invented Christmas* (2017), Mrs. Dickens
- *Dorothy Mills* (2008), Eileen McMahon
- *Intermission* (2003), Maura
- *War of the Buttons* (1994), Fergus' Mum
- *Moll Flanders* (1996), Orphanage Woman
- *The Return* (2003), Maggie

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