--- name: "Phillipa Dunne" canonical: "https://film.one/person/phillipa-dunne" fi1m_id: "phillipa-dunne" imdb_id: "nm3679612" tmdb_id: 1677578 wikidata_id: "Q112339868" roles: ["Actor"] born: "1 March 1981" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 79 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-17T19:47:25.601704+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." --- # Phillipa Dunne ## Identity Phillipa Dunne - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/phillipa-dunne - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** phillipa-dunne - **IMDb ID:** nm3679612 - **TMDB ID:** 1677578 - **Wikidata ID:** Q112339868 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_Dunne, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112339868, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3679612/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1677578 Actor. Born 1 March 1981 in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 1 March 1981, Westport, County Mayo, Ireland - **Active:** 2017–present - **Frequently works with:** [Helen Serafinowicz](https://film.one/person/helen-serafinowicz.md), [Holly Walsh](https://film.one/person/holly-walsh.md), [Lucy Punch](https://film.one/person/lucy-punch.md), [Sharon Horgan](https://film.one/person/sharon-horgan.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 74 (1), 2020s 82 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 79 to 77 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Comedy 3, Drama 1 - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_Dunne, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112339868, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3679612/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1677578 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Amandaland*](https://film.one/tv/amandaland.md) (80) - **Apple TV:** [*Motherland*](https://film.one/tv/motherland-2017.md) (74) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Phillipa Dunne > Phillipa Dunne makes the accommodating friend sympathetic without letting us forget her resentment. Her Anne is a firm reason to return to *Amandaland*, even when the wider ensemble struggles to feel like regular company. Anne keeps company with a woman who patronises her, and Phillipa Dunne makes that friendship difficult to dismiss in *Amandaland* (2025). Beside Lucy Punch’s Amanda, she is sympathetic without making the programme a simple contest between a nice woman and a nasty one. There is need on both sides, as well as resentment, and Dunne makes Amanda’s dependence on Anne matter. The friendship gives us a reason to watch Amanda when her snobbery might otherwise be enough reason to stop. Her screen work grew out of writing and performing with the comedy group Diet of Worms. In *The Walshes* (2014), she played Carmel Walsh and shared the writing as part of that group. *Motherland* (2016) brought the breakthrough role of Anne Flynn, while *Derry Girls* (2018) cast her as Clare’s mother, Geraldine Devlin. Those parts suggest a fairly narrow set of invitations: the mother, the dependable friend, the person who can be relied upon. That is a constraint worth bearing in mind when judging what she does with Anne. The return to Anne in *Amandaland* gives that familiar supporting figure a larger place in the comedy. Joanna Lumley’s Felicity helps explain why her daughter Amanda needs approval, while Dunne makes us notice what Amanda expects her friend to put up with. We wanted Anne to find better company, because Dunne makes Amanda’s condescension towards her hard to shrug off. She earns that response without making the friendship seem disposable: we can resent Amanda on Anne’s behalf and still understand why Anne matters to her. The reservation is about how much those central performances can hold together. The wider group in *Amandaland* does not feel as readily like regular company as the one in *Motherland*, despite the supply of jokes. Punch, Lumley and Dunne are stronger reasons to return than the ensemble as a whole, which is a serious limitation in a sitcom. Dunne gives us someone to care about, but she cannot make every other character belong. Start with *Amandaland* for Dunne, provided spending an evening with Amanda does not require liking her. ## Biography Philippa Dunne is an Irish actress and writer. She trained at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin and began her professional career in 2009. She co-wrote and starred in the RTÉ comedy series *The Walshes* (2014). Since 2016 she has played Anne Flynn in the BBC sitcom *Motherland* and its spin-off *Amandaland* (2025–). Other television roles include Geraldine Devlin in *Derry Girls* (2018–2022), Ria in *This Is Going to Hurt* (2022), and appearances in *The Nevers* (2021), *Bodies* (2023) and *Inside No. 9* (2014). She received a BAFTA nomination for her work in *Amandaland*. *Sources: theguardian.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Amandaland* (2025), Fi1m 80, as Anne — [page](https://film.one/tv/amandaland.md) - *This Is Going to Hurt* (2022), Fi1m 84, as Ria — [page](https://film.one/tv/this-is-going-to-hurt.md) - *Motherland* (2017), Fi1m 74, as Anne — [page](https://film.one/tv/motherland-2017.md) ## Complete filmography (21) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Believe Me* (2026), series, as Harriet Wistrich - *The Moment* (2026), as Rebecca - *Showkids* (2025), series, as Sally Curtain - *Quiet* (2025), as Gert - *Amandaland* (2025), series, as Anne — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/amandaland.md) - *Wife of the Future* (2024), as Mandy - *The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin* (2024), series, as Slake - *Bodies* (2023), series, as Lorna Dunnet - *The Woman in the Wall* (2023), series, as Niamh - *Motherland: Last Christmas* (2022), as Anne - *This Is Going to Hurt* (2022), series, as Ria — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/this-is-going-to-hurt.md) - *The Cleaner* (2021), series, as Margaret - *The Bright Side* (2021), as Hospital Receptionist - *The Nevers* (2021), series, as Mrs. Hapslich - *Derry Girls* (2018), series, as Geraldine Devlin — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/derry-girls.md) - *Motherland* (2017), series, as Anne — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/motherland-2017.md) - *The Walshes* (2014), series, as Carmel - *Inside No. 9* (2014), series, as Elena — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/inside-no-9.md) - *Tall Tales & Murder*, series, Actor - *West the Road*, Actor - *In Between*, as Anna 15 --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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