---
name: "Geraldine Hughes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/geraldine-hughes"
fi1m_id: "geraldine-hughes"
imdb_id: "nm0400625"
tmdb_id: 16502
wikidata_id: "Q3103919"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T15:44:20.408925+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."
---

# Geraldine Hughes

## Identity

Geraldine Hughes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/geraldine-hughes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** geraldine-hughes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0400625
- **TMDB ID:** 16502
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3103919
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Hughes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3103919, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0400625/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16502

Actor. Born 1 January 1970 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1970, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
- **Active:** 2006–2008
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Hughes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3103919, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0400625/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16502

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Rocky Balboa*](https://film.one/film/rocky-balboa.md) (68)

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

## Biography

Geraldine Hughes is a Northern Irish actress born in 1970 in Belfast. She grew up in West Belfast and the Divis flats during the Troubles. At the age of 14 she was cast in the television film Children in the Crossfire. She later received a scholarship to study at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Hughes is known for her film roles as Marie in Rocky Balboa (2006) and as Karen Kowalski in Gran Torino (2008). She wrote and performed the one-woman show Belfast Blues, which premiered in Los Angeles and was staged in New York. Her stage work includes productions on Broadway and in the West End. She has appeared in television series including ER, The Blacklist and Your Honor.

Hughes has received awards including the Los Angeles Ovation Award and a Drama League nomination for Belfast Blues. In 2023 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Ulster University.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Gran Torino* (2008), Fi1m 76, as Karen Kowalski — [page](https://film.one/film/gran-torino.md)
- *Rocky Balboa* (2006), Fi1m 68, as Marie — [page](https://film.one/film/rocky-balboa.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

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

- *The Last Rifleman* (2023), Executive Producer
- *In the Land of Saints and Sinners* (2023), Producer
- *Nine Days* (2021), as Colleen
- *Law & Order: Organized Crime* (2021), series, as Katherine Carpenter-Grey
- *Your Honor* (2020), series, as Betty
- *The Book of Henry* (2017), as Mrs. Evans
- *Time Out of Mind* (2015), as Maire
- *The Blacklist* (2013), series, as Dr. Nina — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-blacklist.md)
- *Killing Lincoln* (2013), as Mary Todd Lincoln
- *Dead Souls* (2012), as Mary Petrie
- *Blue Bloods* (2010), series, as Meara McGuire
- *The Good Wife* (2009), series, as Rachel Knox — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-wife.md)
- *Nurse Jackie* (2009), series, as Molly Gaherty — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/nurse-jackie.md)
- *Pumpgirl* (2009), as Sinead
- *Gran Torino* (2008), as Karen Kowalski — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/gran-torino.md)
- *Rocky Balboa* (2006), as Marie — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/rocky-balboa.md)
- *Higher Ground: Voices of Contemporary Gospel Music* (2004), Actor
- *Duplex* (2003), as Receptionist
- *Oliver Beene* (2003), series, as Eunice O'Shaughnessy
- *Little John* (2002), as Nurse #2
- *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), series, as Regina
- *The Guardian* (2001), series, as Joyce Burke
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Tina Parven, Denise Drake
- *St. Patrick's Day* (1998), as Maeve
- *Profiler* (1996), series, as Female Prisoner
- *ER* (1994), series, as Susan McFarlan — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/er.md)
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Sandra Talbot — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)
- *The End of the World Man* (1986), as Barbara
- *Children in the Crossfire* (1984), as Mary
- *Hallmark Hall of Fame* (1951), series, as Nurse
- *Bender*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Geraldine Hughes in New York City in March 2009.](https://film.one/media/person/104017/gallery-caf2115b8c1b.jpg) Geraldine Hughes in New York City in March 2009. — Gary Thom at https://www.flickr.com/photos/afulki/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Geraldine_Hughes_March_2009.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Geraldine Hughes](https://film.one/media/person/104017/gallery-e8fabc1c9243.jpg) Geraldine Hughes — Wimps.tv, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Geraldine_Hughes_in_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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