Biography
Olwen Fouéré is an Irish actress and theatre artist. She was born on 2 March 1954 in Galway on the west coast of Ireland to Breton parents Yann Fouéré and Marie-Magdeleine Mauger. She works in English and French across theatre, film, visual arts and music, with a career spanning more than four decades.
Her film roles include Kathryn in The Survivalist (2015), Mary's mother in This Must Be the Place (2011), Mother Marlene in Mandy (2018), Áshildur Hofgythja in The Northman (2022), Sally Hardesty in Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) and Madeline in The Watchers (2024). In theatre she co-founded the avant-garde company Operating Theatre with composer Roger Doyle in 1980 and created the internationally toured adaptation riverrun from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
In 2020 she was placed at number 22 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. She received an honorary doctorate from Dublin City University in 2016.
