Ruth McCabe

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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

as Mary
Released: 1989-04-07

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class...

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Victoria & Abdul

as Mrs. Tuck
Released: 2017-09-13

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

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Philomena

as Mother Barbara
Released: 2013-11-01

A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced...

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Breakfast on Pluto

as Ma 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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Inside I'm Dancing

as Annie
Released: 2004-10-15

Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore...

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The Field

as Tinker Woman
Released: 1990-09-21

"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the...

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Good Vibrations

as Mavis Hooley
Released: 2012-05-31

The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley...

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The Snapper

as Kay Curley
Released: 1993-08-06

Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin....

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Wake Wood

as Peggy O'Shea
Released: 2011-03-25

The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three...

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Joyride

as Noreen
Released: 2022-07-29

12-year-old Mully has lost his mother and discovers his debt-ridden father stealing the charity...

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Circle of Friends

as Emily Mahon
Released: 1995-04-07

Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At...

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Intermission

as Celia
Released: 2003-08-29

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops,...

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Aisha

as Mrs. Keegan
Released: 2022-11-17

Aisha, a young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland, is floundering in a maze of social...

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An Awfully Big Adventure

as Grace Bird
Released: 1995-05-11

Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby...

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The Blackwater Lightship

as Dr. Louise
Released: 2004-02-04

A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.

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An Everlasting Piece

as Mrs. O'Neill
Released: 2000-12-22

Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they...

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The Closer You Get

as Mary Mulligan
Released: 2000-12-27

Irish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of...

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Run & Jump

as Nora
Released: 2014-01-24

After a stroke leaves her husband disabled and fundamentally changed, a spirited Irish wife...

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The Miracle

as Wardrobe Mistress
Released: 1991-04-05

Two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of...

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Titanic Town

as Kathleen
Released: 1998-08-08

Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than...

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Wild About Harry

as Lily
Released: 2000-12-31

A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has...

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That They May Face the Rising Sun

as Mary Murphy
Released: 2024-04-26

Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit...

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Hostages

as Elaine Spence
Released: 1992-09-23

True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the...

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Sinners

as Rev. Mother Paul
Released: 2002-03-26

Powerful drama set in 1960s Ireland about a young, unmarried mother-to-be whose family sends her...

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Damo & Ivor: The Movie

as Grano
Released: 2018-03-15

Damo and Ivor embark on the mother of all adventures to find the last piece of their family...

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Fatal Inheritance

as Mrs. Donovan
Released: 1991-10-01

Jack Carnegie is an American 'heir-hunter', whose job it is to trace unknown family members who...

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Out of Innocence

as Patsy Kerrigan
Released: 2019-04-12

After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did...

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Stella Days

as Miss Courtney
Released: 2012-03-09

A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until...

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Crossroads of Laredo

as Barbara
Released: 1996-05-01

Tex is a gunslinger who murders a cowboy and steals his money. Lem is an honest man who wants...

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Shadow of a Gunman

as Mrs. Grigson
Released: 1995-10-07

The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages,...

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Scarlett

as uncredited
First aired: 1994-11-13

Scarlett O’Hara’s flight from the scrutiny of Atlanta society takes her on a journey to Savannah...

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Life of Crime

as Rose Woods
First aired: 2013-05-10

Set against the backdrop of iconic moments in British history, Hayley Atwell stars as an...

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Takin' Over the Asylum

as Rosalie
First aired: 1994-09-27

A salesman starts to run a hospital radio station inside a facility for people with mental heath...

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Lucan

as Nanny Roberts
First aired: 2013-12-11

Belgravia, London, November 7th, 1974. Sandra Rivett, nanny of the aristocratic Lucan family, is...

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Women on the Verge

as Aunty Bronagh
First aired: 2018-10-11

The lives of three women in their 30s, as they navigate the challenges of life, love and...

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Single-Handed

as Eithne Driscoll
First aired: 2007-01-01

Single-Handed is an Irish television drama series, first broadcast on RTÉ Television in 2007....

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No Tears

as Nuala
First aired: 2002-01-14

Based on the hepatitis C scandal that rocked Ireland in the mid-1990s. Two very different women...

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