Charlene McKenna

Born: 1984-03-26

Charlene Lee McKenna (Irish: Searlaoin Nic Chionaoith; born March 26, 1984) is an Irish actress. She became a household name in Ireland after starring as Jennifer Jackson in the miniseries Pure Mule (2005). She appeared on Irish television in Single-Handed 2 (2008), Whistleblower (2008), and Raw (2008–2013). For Raw, she won Best Actress (Television) at the Irish Film & Television Awards, and for Whistleblower, she won Outstanding Actress in a Mini-Series at the Monte Carlo Television Festival.


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Breakfast on Pluto

as Caroline Braden
Released: 2005-11-16

In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London...

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Dorothy Mills

as Mary McMahon
Released: 2008-08-06

When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the assault of an infant, a...

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A Greyhound of a Girl

as Tansey (voice)
Released: 2023-11-23

Mary O’Hara is a sharp and cheeky 12-year-old Dublin schoolgirl who is bravely facing the fact...

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The Old Curiosity Shop

as The Marchioness
Released: 2007-12-26

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop...

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Jump

as Marie
Released: 2012-06-08

The lives of four twenty-somethings collide one fateful New Year's Eve in this twisty, blackly...

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Kitchen

as Kirsty Dunne
Released: 2007-07-08

Tensions rise in a Glasgow kitchen as the cooks deal with the pressures of the job. When an...

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Boogaloo and Graham

as Mutter
Released: 2014-08-01

In 1970's Belfast two young boys discover the facts of life aided by the help of their pet chickens.

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Ghosts

as Regina Engstrand
Released: 2014-06-26

Lesley Manville gives a career best performance in Richard Eyre's award-winning revival of...

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Skins

as Maddie
First aired: 2007-01-25

Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable...

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Peaky Blinders

as Captain Swing
First aired: 2013-09-12

A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor...

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Peaky Blinders

as Laura McKee
First aired: 2013-09-12

A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor...

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Misfits

as Shannon
First aired: 2009-11-12

When five young outsiders on Community Service get caught in a strange storm, they discover that...

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Merlin

as Lamia
First aired: 2008-09-20

The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers,...

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Ripper Street

as Rose Erskine
First aired: 2012-12-30

A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The...

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Vienna Blood

as Leah Liebermann
First aired: 2019-11-18

Max Liebermann, a student of Sigmund Freud, helps Detective Rheinhardt in the investigation of a...

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Stan Lee's Lucky Man

as Clare Cartmell
First aired: 2016-01-22

London cop and compulsive gambler Harry Clayton is on the verge of losing everything. On the...

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Bloodlands

as DS Niamh McGovern
First aired: 2021-02-21

Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick connects a suicide note with an infamous cold...

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Holding

as as Evelyn Ross
First aired: 2022-03-14

Local police officer Sergeant PJ Collins is a gentle man who hides from people and fills his...

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Raw

as Jojo Harte
First aired: 2008-09-08

The lives and loves of the young staff who work in a successful Dublin restaurant and the...

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Bring the Drama

as Self
First aired: 2024-02-14

Every performance counts. Bill Bailey champions aspiring actors from all walks of life. Will...

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Clean Sweep

as Shelly Mohan
First aired: 2023-05-14

Shelly Mohan is a regular mum who juggles the lives and schedules of three children and a...

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Pure Mule

as Jennifer Jackson
First aired: 2005-09-06

Multiple award winning drama series written by Eugene O'Brien, produced by David Collins, Ed...

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Death and Nightingales

as Mercy Boyle
First aired: 2018-11-28

Fermanagh, Irish countryside, 1885. On her 23rd birthday, Beth, who lives on a remote farm with...

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Whistleblower

as Karen
First aired: 2008-08-31

Whistleblower is a two-part IFTA-winning fact-based RTÉ drama which focuses on the Michael Neary...

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