---
name: "Victoria Smurfit"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/victoria-smurfit"
fi1m_id: "victoria-smurfit"
imdb_id: "nm0810729"
tmdb_id: 3315
wikidata_id: "Q127333"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "31 March 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T02:41:14.363657+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."
---

# Victoria Smurfit

## Identity

Victoria Smurfit

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/victoria-smurfit
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** victoria-smurfit
- **IMDb ID:** nm0810729
- **TMDB ID:** 3315
- **Wikidata ID:** Q127333
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Smurfit, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127333, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810729/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3315

Actor. Born 31 March 1974 in Dublin, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 31 March 1974, Dublin, Ireland
- **Active:** 1996–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 66 (2), 2020s 80 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 62 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 2, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $273m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Smurfit, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127333, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810729/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3315

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Rivals*](https://film.one/tv/rivals.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Victoria Smurfit is an Irish actress born in Dublin on 31 March 1974. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School after studying theatre at A-level.

She first gained recognition for her role as Orla O’Connell in the BBC series *Ballykissangel* (1998–1999). Subsequent television work includes the lead role of DCI Róisín Connor in the ITV series *Trial & Retribution* (2003–2009) and Cruella de Vil in *Once Upon a Time* (2014–2018), for which she received an IFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama in 2016. Film credits include *The Beach* (2000), *About a Boy* (2002) and *Bulletproof Monk* (2003).

In 2024 she played Maud O’Hara in the Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s *Rivals*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, bbc.co.uk, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Rivals* (2024), Fi1m 80, as Maud O'Hara — [page](https://film.one/tv/rivals.md)
- *About a Boy* (2002), Fi1m 77, as Suzie — [page](https://film.one/film/about-a-boy.md)
- *The Beach* (2000), Fi1m 55, as Weather Girl — [page](https://film.one/film/the-beach.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

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

- *Rivals* (2024), series, as Maud O'Hara — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/rivals.md)
- *The Man Who Fell to Earth* (2022), series, as Penny Morgan
- *Around the World in 80 Days* (2021), series, as Lady Clemency Rowbotham
- *Deadly Cuts* (2021), as Pippa
- *Bloodlands* (2021), series, as Olivia Foyle
- *The Lears* (2017), as Diana
- *Best Fake Friends* (2016), as Nikki
- *Bait* (2015), as Bex
- *Among Ravens* (2014), as Emma
- *Amnesia: Who Are You?* (2014), as Monica
- *Dracula* (2013), series, as Lady Jayne Wetherby
- *Missing* (2012), series, as Sloane
- *Once Upon a Time* (2011), series, as Cruella De Vil — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/once-upon-a-time.md)
- *Honeymoon for One* (2011), as Hilary
- *The Mentalist* (2008), series, as Monica Giraldi — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mentalist.md)
- *The Shell Seekers* (2007), as Olivia Keeling
- *Agatha Christie's Marple* (2004), series, as Ella Blunt
- *Bulletproof Monk* (2003), as Nina
- *The Last Great Wilderness* (2002), as Claire
- *About a Boy* (2002), as Suzie — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/about-a-boy.md)
- *North Square* (2000), series, Actor
- *The Wedding Tackle* (2000), as Clodagh
- *The Beach* (2000), as Weather Girl — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/the-beach.md)
- *Cold Feet* (1998), series, as Jane Fitzpatrick
- *Berkeley Square* (1998), series, as Hannah Randall
- *Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?)* (1997), as Helen
- *Trial & Retribution* (1997), series, as DCI Roison Connor, Roisin Connor
- *Ivanhoe* (1997), series, as Lady Rowena
- *The Leading Man* (1996), as Annabel
- *Ballykissangel* (1996), series, as Orla O'Connell
- *The Run of the Country* (1995), as Annagh

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