---
name: "Olwen Fouéré"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/olwen-fouere"
fi1m_id: "olwen-fouere"
imdb_id: "nm0288260"
tmdb_id: 933272
wikidata_id: "Q7088895"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "2 March 1954"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 62
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-02T23:13:26.268897+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."
---

# Olwen Fouéré

## Identity

Olwen Fouéré

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/olwen-fouere
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** olwen-fouere
- **IMDb ID:** nm0288260
- **TMDB ID:** 933272
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7088895
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olwen_Fou%C3%A9r%C3%A9, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7088895, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0288260/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/933272

Actor. Born 2 March 1954 in Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 2 March 1954, Ireland
- **Active:** 2015–present
- **Also known as:** Olwen Fouere, Олвен Фуер
- **Average Fi1m score:** 62, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olwen_Fou%C3%A9r%C3%A9, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7088895, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0288260/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/933272

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*The Survivalist*](https://film.one/film/the-survivalist.md) (77)

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## 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.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald* (2018), Fi1m 46, as Melusine — [page](https://film.one/film/fantastic-beasts-the-crimes-of-grindelwald.md)
- *The Survivalist* (2015), Fi1m 77, as Kathryn — [page](https://film.one/film/the-survivalist.md)

## Complete filmography (57)

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

- *Sundown* (2026), as Donna
- *How to Get to Heaven from Belfast* (2026), series, as Nora O'Hara — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/how-to-get-to-heaven-from-belfast.md)
- *Four Letters of Love* (2025), as Nora Ni Liathain
- *The Reckoning of Erin Morrigan* (2025), as Erin Morrigan
- *The Actor* (2025), as Judge / Old Lady / Neighbor / Wardrobe Woman / Old Man
- *Catching Dust* (2024), as Copperhead
- *The Watchers* (2024), as Madeline
- *Tarot* (2024), as Alma Astryn
- *All You Need Is Death* (2024), as Rita Concannon
- *Cult Killer* (2024), as Dottie Evans
- *Sunrise* (2024), as Ma Reynolds
- *Falling into Place* (2023), as Judy
- *Radha* (2023), as Annie
- *The Tower* (2023), Actor
- *Far Calls* (2023), as The Woman · Director
- *Joyride* (2022), as Sideline Sue
- *The Ulysses Project* (2022), as Molly Bloom
- *She Will* (2022), as Jean
- *The Northman* (2022), as Áshildur Hofgythja
- *Halo* (2022), series, as The Mother — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/tv/halo.md)
- *Holding* (2022), series, as as  Kitty Harrington
- *Texas Chainsaw Massacre* (2022), as Sally Hardesty
- *The Tourist* (2022), series, as Niamh Cassidy
- *Zone 414* (2021), as Royale
- *Bardo* (2021), Actor
- *The Tide* (2021), as Night Angler
- *Sea Fever* (2020), as Ciara
- *Violet Gibson, the Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini* (2020), as Violet Gibson
- *The Feed* (2019), series, as Jane
- *Brassic* (2019), series, as Margaret
- *Animals* (2019), as Maureen
- *In Orbit* (2019), Actor
- *Nightflyers* (2018), series, as Connie
- *Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald* (2018), as Melusine — Fi1m 46, [page](https://film.one/film/fantastic-beasts-the-crimes-of-grindelwald.md)
- *Mandy* (2018), as Mother Marlene
- *Procession* (2018), as Procession Master
- *Beast* (2018), as Detective Theresa Kelly
- *Derry Girls* (2018), series, as Sheila — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/derry-girls.md)
- *Take Me Swimming* (2017), as Eileen
- *The Drummer and the Keeper* (2017), as Doctor Assif
- *National Theatre Live: Salomé* (2017), as Nameless
- *Where is Eva Hipsey?* (2017), as Voice Actor
- *The Crown* (2016), series, as Oonagh Shanley-Toffolo — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md)
- *Traders* (2016), as Helen Stynes
- *The Survivalist* (2015), as Kathryn — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/the-survivalist.md)
- *4,000-Year-Old Cold Case: The Body in the Bog* (2013), as Narrator
- *The Irreducible Difference of the Other* (2013), Actor
- *This Must Be the Place* (2011), as Mary's Mother
- *The Other Side of Sleep* (2011), as Maggie
- *Above Suspicion* (2009), series, as Mrs Hughes
- *Saltwater* (2000), as Trish Meehan
- *Space Truckers* (1996), as Building Commander
- *Hard Shoulder* (1990), Actor
- *Time After Time* (1986), as Young Nun
- *Screen Two* (1985), series, as Young Nun
- *The Sleep of Death* (1980), as Second Maid (as Olwen Fouere)
- *Banquet*, Actor

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