---
name: "Tara Fitzgerald"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tara-fitzgerald"
fi1m_id: "tara-fitzgerald"
imdb_id: "nm0001216"
tmdb_id: 47615
wikidata_id: "Q272174"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "18 September 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 67
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-07T14:21:54.420908+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."
---

# Tara Fitzgerald

## Identity

Tara Fitzgerald

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tara-fitzgerald
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tara-fitzgerald
- **IMDb ID:** nm0001216
- **TMDB ID:** 47615
- **Wikidata ID:** Q272174
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Fitzgerald, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272174, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001216/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/47615

Actor. Born 18 September 1967 in Cuckfield, Sussex, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 18 September 1967, Cuckfield, Sussex, England, UK
- **Active:** 1991–2019
- **Also known as:** Tara Anne Cassandra Fitzgerald
- **Average Fi1m score:** 67, as actor, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 78 (2), 2000s 78 (1), 2010s 56 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 65 to 63 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 3 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Comedy 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Crime 1, History 1
- **Screen time:** 11 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $314m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Fitzgerald, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272174, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001216/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/47615

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Virgin Queen*](https://film.one/tv/the-virgin-queen.md) (78)

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## Fi1m on Tara Fitzgerald

> Tara Fitzgerald brings comic timing and an unshowy ease to parts that have too often confined her to being the romantic interest. We value her most in company, though the writing does not always give her enough to do.

In *Brassed Off* (1996), Tara Fitzgerald’s Gloria fits into the band’s company without making the ensemble feel like a supporting cast for her romance. Mark Herman gives these people lives beyond the music, and Fitzgerald is comfortably at home alongside Stephen Tompkinson, Jim Carter and Ewan McGregor. We enjoyed their company, and her unforced place within it made us want more time with the group. The romance between Gloria and McGregor’s Andy Barrow is less distinctive; its familiar demands sometimes take that time away.

Her early casting repeatedly put her in that position, with the romantic interest threatening to become the whole job. Her screen debut came in *Hear My Song* (1991), and *Sirens* (1994) cast her as Estella Campion. The latter makes use of her comic timing alongside the discovery of sexual freedom, a recurring concern in the parts she was offered. That humour gives her something more interesting to do than simply persuade us that someone might fall in love with her, and it deserves room in the writing.

The move towards mature character parts is evident in *I Capture the Castle* (2003), while television brought Eve Lockhart in *Waking the Dead* and Selyse Baratheon in *Game of Thrones* (2013–2015). Those roles make the early romantic-interest label look increasingly inadequate. The work became patchier after the 1990s, however, so this is not a career we would recommend indiscriminately. We would follow the particular part, rather than assume that a later date means better material.

For *Brassed Off*, Fitzgerald spent months learning the flugelhorn, a practical commitment that the romantic-interest label hardly accounts for. It is a useful detail because Herman’s film depends on the band feeling like people who have a life together, not actors waiting for their next line. Fitzgerald contributes to that feeling without upsetting the balance of the cast. Start there, and do not expect the courtship to be the main attraction.

## Biography

Tara Fitzgerald is an English actress. She trained at the Drama Centre in London and made her film debut as Nancy Doyle in *Hear My Song* (1991). She played Gloria in *Brassed Off* (1996) and appeared in other films including *The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain* (1995) and *Sirens* (1994).

On stage, Fitzgerald won the New York Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play in 1995 for playing Ophelia opposite Ralph Fiennes in *Hamlet*. She has taken leading roles in productions including *Macbeth* at Shakespeare’s Globe. On television she has played Selyse Baratheon in *Game of Thrones* (2014) and appeared in series such as *Death in Paradise* and *Belgravia*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, screenonline.org.uk, unitedagents.co.uk, rottentomatoes.com.*

## On Fi1m (6)

- *The King* (2019), Fi1m 58, as Hooper — [page](https://film.one/film/the-king.md)
- *Legend* (2015), Fi1m 57, as Elsie Shea — [page](https://film.one/film/legend-2015.md)
- *Exodus: Gods and Kings* (2014), Fi1m 52, as Miriam — [page](https://film.one/film/exodus-gods-and-kings.md)
- *The Virgin Queen* (2006), Fi1m 78, as Kat Ashley — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-virgin-queen.md)
- *Brassed Off* (1996), Fi1m 79, as Gloria — [page](https://film.one/film/brassed-off.md)
- *Hear My Song* (1991), Fi1m 78, as Nancy Doyle — [page](https://film.one/film/hear-my-song.md)

## Complete filmography (79)

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

- *Portraits of Dangerous Women* (2024), as Tina
- *Upholstergeist* (2024), as Sister
- *Stream* (2024), as Sarah
- *Activities of Daily Living* (2024), as Matron
- *The Undertaker* (2023), as Vic
- *The Piper* (2023), as Auntie Aishe
- *Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance* (2023), as Margo
- *Kindling* (2023), as Sid's mom
- *Luther: The Fallen Sun* (2023), as Georgette Robey (uncredited)
- *Surface* (2022), series, as Anne Huntley
- *Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men* (2022), Director
- *Signora Volpe* (2022), series, as Isabel Vitale
- *Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop* (2022), as Diana Branson
- *The Call Centre* (2020), as Helen
- *The King* (2019), as Hooper — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/the-king.md)
- *Dead Birds* (2019), as Suzy
- *The Runaways* (2019), as Maggie
- *Salt* (2019), as Margaret
- *The ABC Murders* (2018), series, as Lady Hermoine Clarke
- *Requiem* (2018), series, as Sylvia Walsh
- *Strike* (2017), series, as Tansy Bestigui
- *Una* (2017), as Andrea
- *Churchill's Secret* (2016), as Diana Churchill
- *We Are Happy* (2015), as Rachel
- *Legend* (2015), as Elsie Shea — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/legend-2015.md)
- *Child 44* (2015), as Inessa Nesterov
- *Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience* (2015), as Selyse Baratheon
- *Exodus: Gods and Kings* (2014), as Miriam — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/exodus-gods-and-kings.md)
- *Prick Thy Neighbour* (2014), Director
- *In the Club* (2014), series, as Susie
- *The Musketeers* (2014), series, as Marie de Medici
- *The Blacklist* (2013), series, as Flight Attendant — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-blacklist.md)
- *Death in Paradise* (2011), series, as Anouk Laban
- *The Body Farm* (2011), series, as Eve Lockhart
- *The Body Farm* (2011), as Dr. Eve Lockhart
- *Game of Thrones* (2011), series, as Selyse Baratheon — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/game-of-thrones.md)
- *U Be Dead* (2009), as Debra Pemberton
- *Jane Eyre* (2006), series, as Mrs. Reed
- *In a Dark Place* (2006), as Ms. Grose
- *The Virgin Queen* (2006), series, as Kat Ashley — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-virgin-queen.md)
- *Like Father Like Son* (2005), as D.I. Harkness
- *Agatha Christie's Marple* (2004), series, as Adelaide Jefferson
- *Five Children and It* (2004), as Mother
- *Secret Passage* (2004), as Clara
- *Love Again* (2003), as Monica Jones
- *I Capture the Castle* (2003), as Topaz Mortmain
- *Rose and Maloney* (2002), series, as Annie Sorensen Johnson
- *Childhood* (2001), as Angel
- *Waking the Dead* (2001), series, as Dr. Eve Lockhart
- *Dark Blue World* (2001), as Susan Whitmore
- *Murder in Mind* (2001), series, as Elizabeth Morton
- *Rancid Aluminium* (2000), as Marsha
- *New World Disorder* (1999), as Kris Paddock
- *Frenchman's Creek* (1998), as Lady Dona St. Columb
- *The Student Prince* (1998), as Grace
- *Little White Lies* (1998), as Beth Marsh
- *Conquest* (1998), as Daisy MacDonald
- *The Woman In White* (1997), as Marian Fairlie
- *The Woman In White* (1997), series, as Marian Fairlie
- *The Tenant of Wildfell Hall* (1996), series, as Helen Graham
- *Brassed Off* (1996), as Gloria — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/brassed-off.md)
- *The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain* (1995), as Betty
- *The Vacillations of Poppy Carew* (1995), as Poppy Carew
- *A Man of No Importance* (1994), as Adele Rice
- *Fall from Grace* (1994), as Catherine Pradier
- *Cadfael* (1994), series, as Iveta de Massard
- *Sirens* (1994), as Estella Campion
- *Blue Heelers* (1993), series, Actor
- *Six Characters in Search of An Author* (1992), as Emily
- *Anglo Saxon Attitudes* (1992), series, as Dollie Stokesay, Young Dollie Stokesay
- *The Camomile Lawn* (1992), series, as Polly
- *Hear My Song* (1991), as Nancy Doyle — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/hear-my-song.md)
- *Performance* (1991), series, as Emily
- *The Black Candle* (1991), as Victoria Mordaunt
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Woman — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)
- *Screen Two* (1985), series, as Adele Rice
- *My Spanish Piggy Bank*, as The Art Buyer
- *Vows*, as Catherine Burkheart
- *The Reformation of Sister Edith*, as Agnes

## Gallery

- ![Tara Fitzgerald](https://film.one/media/person/79826/gallery-f668e2349b09.jpg) Tara Fitzgerald — Tracy Howl from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Tara_Fitzgerald_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Tara Fitzgerald reading a poem at the British Library's Josephine Hart Poetry Hour in December 2022 (uploaded in January 2023)](https://film.one/media/person/79826/gallery-587108a32c75.jpg) Tara Fitzgerald reading a poem at the British Library's Josephine Hart Poetry Hour in December 2022 (uploaded in January 2023) — The British Library, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Tara_fitzgerald_2023_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Tara Fitzgerald reading a poem at the British Library's Josephine Hart Poetry Hour in December 2022 (uploaded in January 2023)](https://film.one/media/person/79826/gallery-184cbe048ccc.jpg) Tara Fitzgerald reading a poem at the British Library's Josephine Hart Poetry Hour in December 2022 (uploaded in January 2023) — The British Library, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Tara_fitzgerald_2023_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Tara Fitzgerald](https://film.one/media/person/79826/gallery-9af846a4b100.jpg) Tara Fitzgerald — Image via TMDB
- ![Tara Fitzgerald](https://film.one/media/person/79826/gallery-1c8374956b1e.jpg) Tara Fitzgerald — Image via TMDB
- ![Tara Fitzgerald](https://film.one/media/person/79826/gallery-e77ad6976090.jpg) Tara Fitzgerald — Image via TMDB
- ![Tara Fitzgerald](https://film.one/media/person/79826/gallery-38c37e8350eb.jpg) Tara Fitzgerald — Image via TMDB
- ![Tara Fitzgerald](https://film.one/media/person/79826/gallery-25fb3f26f088.jpg) Tara Fitzgerald — Image via TMDB

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