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name: "Kirsten Sheridan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kirsten-sheridan"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "14 July 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T06:58:28.504884+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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# Kirsten Sheridan

Actor. Born 14 July 1976 in Dublin, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 14 July 1976, Dublin, Ireland
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Sheridan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453939, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792202/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41285

## Biography

Kirsten Sheridan is an Irish film director and screenwriter. Born in Dublin in 1976, she is the daughter of director Jim Sheridan. She appeared as Sharon in her father's film *My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown* (1989).

Sheridan studied script writing at New York University and film production at University College Dublin, graduating from Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design in 1998. She directed the features *Disco Pigs* (2001) and *August Rush* (2007). She co-wrote *In America* (2003) with her father and sister Naomi Sheridan, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown* (1989), Fi1m 85, as Sharon — [page](https://film.one/film/my-left-foot-the-story-of-christy-brown.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *Lockerbie: A Search for Truth* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *Say Nothing* (2024), series, Story, Teleplay
- *Phoenix Rising* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *A Thousand Times Good Night* (2013), as Additional Writing
- *Dollhouse* (2012), Writer, Director, Editor
- *August Rush* (2007), Director
- *Bua* (2007), Producer
- *In America* (2003), Writer
- *Disco Pigs* (2001), Director
- *Patterns* (1999), Writer, Director
- *The Case of Majella McGinty* (1999), Director
- *My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown* (1989), as Sharon — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/my-left-foot-the-story-of-christy-brown.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2004: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *In America*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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