---
name: "Karen Hassan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/karen-hassan"
fi1m_id: "karen-hassan"
imdb_id: "nm2703591"
tmdb_id: 1665371
wikidata_id: "Q3625177"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-22T03:31:12.413233+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."
---

# Karen Hassan

## Identity

Karen Hassan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/karen-hassan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** karen-hassan
- **IMDb ID:** nm2703591
- **TMDB ID:** 1665371
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3625177
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Hassan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3625177, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2703591/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1665371

Actor. Born 1 January 1981 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1981, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
- **Active:** 2008–2015
- **Also known as:** Karen Hassen, کارن حسن
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 86 (1), 2010s 66 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 72 to 71 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 1, History 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $7m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Hassan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3625177, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2703591/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1665371

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Hunger*](https://film.one/film/hunger.md) (86)

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## Biography

Karen Hassan is a Northern Irish actress from Belfast. Born on 31 July 1981, she studied drama at Queen’s University Belfast and began her screen career with short films and supporting roles in features.

She is known for playing Lynsey Nolan in the Channel 4 soap *Hollyoaks* (2010–2013) and its spin-off *Hollyoaks Later*. Other credits include Annie Brawley in *The Fall* (2013–2014), Therese in *Vikings* (2015–2016), and Gerry’s Girlfriend in Steve McQueen’s *Hunger* (2008). She has also appeared in *Fifty Dead Men Walking* (2008), *High-Rise* (2015) and the series *FBI: International*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, belfasttelegraph.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *High-Rise* (2015), Fi1m 58, as Young Woman — [page](https://film.one/film/high-rise.md)
- *The Fall* (2013), Fi1m 73, as Annie Brawley — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-fall-2013.md)
- *Hunger* (2008), Fi1m 86, as Gerry's Girlfriend — [page](https://film.one/film/hunger.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

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

- *Wait for Me* (2023), as Alison
- *Suspicion* (2022), series, as Nicola
- *Hope Street* (2021), series, as DC Jo Lipton
- *FBI: International* (2021), series, as Lauren Walsh
- *Doing Money* (2019), as DC Rachel
- *Cellar Door* (2019), as Aidie
- *Is This Sexual Harassment?* (2019), as Cat
- *Sasha of the Sea* (2018), as Abby
- *Soft Border Patrol* (2018), series, as Lisa McCoy
- *Once Upon a Winter's Date* (2017), as Amy
- *High-Rise* (2015), as Young Woman — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/high-rise.md)
- *A Patch of Fog* (2015), as Police Woman
- *The Caravan* (2015), as Becky
- *The Fall* (2013), series, as Annie Brawley — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-fall-2013.md)
- *Vikings* (2013), series, as Therese — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/vikings.md)
- *Scapegoat* (2009), as Patricia Curran
- *Fifty Dead Men Walking* (2008), as Mother
- *Miss Conception* (2008), as Young Nun
- *Hunger* (2008), as Gerry's Girlfriend — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/hunger.md)

## Gallery

- ![Karen Hassan](https://film.one/media/person/99986/gallery-84dadd049c0c.jpg) Karen Hassan — Sarah Winterman, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Karen_Hassan.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Karen Hassan and me. Follow me on twitter @Sarahwinterman (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/99986/gallery-9fc069b1973b.jpg) Karen Hassan and me. Follow me on twitter @Sarahwinterman (2011) — Sarah Winterman, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Karen_Hassan_%28Hollyoaks%29_%286150656730%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Karen Hassan at the 2019 German Castle Con](https://film.one/media/person/99986/gallery-f347353c0a00.jpg) Karen Hassan at the 2019 German Castle Con — German Comic Con, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Karen_hassan_2019.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Keith Farrell & Karen Hassan at the Premiere of Wait for Me 2nd March 2023](https://film.one/media/person/99986/gallery-3a03435bb178.jpg) Keith Farrell & Karen Hassan at the Premiere of Wait for Me 2nd March 2023 — Lostdub, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Wait_for_Me_Premiere.jpg/1280px-Wait_for_Me_Premiere.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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