Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 05, 1971
Place of Birth
Corrinshego, Newry, Northern Ireland, UK
Credits
85 titles
Susan Lynch
Biography
Susan Lynch (born 5 June 1971) is an actor from Northern Ireland. She is known for her role in the 2003 film 16 Years of Alcohol. Her other film appearances include Waking Ned Devine (1998), Nora (2000), Beautiful Creatures (2000), and From Hell (2001). Lynch was born in 1971 in Corrinshego, County Armagh, Northern Ireland to an Italian mother (from Trivento) and an Irish father. She has four siblings; her eldest brother is actor John Lynch. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Lynch has won three Irish Film and Television Academy Awards, including Best Leading Actress for her work in the film Nora, about Nora Barnacle and her husband, Irish author James Joyce. She also won the British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2003 film 16 Years of Alcohol. In 2020, she was listed as number 42 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
Known For
Filmography
Small Town, Big Story
Jemima Rowlands
A Thousand Blows
Jane Carr
Bring Them Down
Peggy
Daddy Issues
Davina
The Change
Agnes
Pistol
John's Mum
Close to Me
Cathy
Here Are the Young Men
Lynn Connolly
Bloodlands
Heather Pentland
Lost Lives
Self (voice)
National Theatre Live: Faith, Hope & Charity
Beth
Downton Abbey
Miss Lawton
Wild Bill
Angie
Ups and Downs
Fionnuala
Sex Education
Tara Gibbs
Killing Eve
Anna
Ready Player One
Alice
Save Me
Stace
Bad Day for the Cut
Frankie Pierce
The Secret Scripture
Nurse
Apple Tree Yard
Susannah
National Treasure
Christina Farnborough
Away
Angie
Unforgotten
Liz Baildon
Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain
Herself (uncredited)
Chasing Shadows
Dr. Ellesmere
Common
Margaret Ward
Here and Now
Lucy
Happy Valley
Alison Garrs
Ambassadors
Caitlin
The Secret of Crickley Hall
Lili Peel
Great Expectations
Molly
Hideaways
Mrs. O'Mara
Monroe
The Scouting Book for Boys
Sharon
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Isabella Norcliffe
The Race
Katey Kensay
Holy Water
Geraldine Gaffney
Moving On
Tina
The Unloved
Lucy's Mother
City Rats
Gina
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Annette
A Woman in Winter
Marianne
The Robber Bride
Charis White
Someone Else
Lisa
Soundproof
Penny
The Ten Commandments
Miriam
Duane Hopwood
Gina
Doctor Who
Angstrom
Mickybo and Me
Torch Woman