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Eva Birthistle is a Actor Irlandaise born on 1 january 1974 at Bray (Irlande)
Eva Birthistle (born 1 January 1974) is an Irish actress, best known for her role in Ae Fond Kiss.... She won the London Film Critics Circle British Actress of the Year Award in 2004, and has twice won the IFTA Best Actress in a Leading Role (Film) award.
On 31 December 2006, she married her long-time partner Raife Burchell from the band Jetplane Landing. They live in Notting Hill, West London.
Career
In 1995, she got her first TV role as Regina Crosbie in the serial Glenroe. She stayed for three years until 1998. She was offered her first feature film in 1997, All Souls' Day by Alan Gilsenan. She played a variety of roles in Irish films, including Drinking Crude (1997), co-starring Colin Farrell, and TV movie Miracle at Midnight (1998), with Mia Farrow. In 2002, Eva appeared in two dramas about the same challenging subject, Bloody Sunday: the documentary-style TV drama Bloody Sunday, starring James Nesbitt, and Sunday, written by Jimmy McGovern.
In 2003, she appeared in the TV series Trust before starring as Roisin Hanlon in the Ken Loach movie Ae Fond Kiss... (2003-04), which won her the 2005 London Critics Circle Film Award as "British Actress of the Year".
She appeared in Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto, Ol Parker's Imagine Me & You and Save Angel Hope by Lukas Erni in 2005, and in Brian Kirk's Middletown in 2006.
Birthistle starred as human rights lawyer Jane Lavery in the TV conspiracy drama The State Within in 2006. In late 2007, she featured as Rembrandt's wife Saskia van Uylenburg in the historical drama, Nightwatching by Peter Greenaway.
She featured in the BBC drama The Last Enemy in early 2008, playing the role of Eleanor Brooke, a junior minister. In 2009, she portrayed Jenette in the last episode -season 2- of the BBC hit series Ashes to Ashes. That same year, she appeared in the independent horror film, Wake Wood.
She played "Annette Nicholls" in the 2010 three-part TV series Five Daughters. She appeared as Detective Superintendent Sarah Cavendish in the ninth, and final, series of Waking the Dead. In 2011, Birthistle appeared in the Sky1 TV series Strike Back: Project Dawn as Captain Kate Marshall.
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Eva Birthistle
Biography
Born in Bray, Ireland, the daughter of a farmer, the family moved to Derry, Northern Ireland, when she was 14. She was raised Roman Catholic. As a teenager, Eva went to Dublin to study acting at the The Gaiety School of Acting.On 31 December 2006, she married her long-time partner Raife Burchell from the band Jetplane Landing. They live in Notting Hill, West London.
Career
In 1995, she got her first TV role as Regina Crosbie in the serial Glenroe. She stayed for three years until 1998. She was offered her first feature film in 1997, All Souls' Day by Alan Gilsenan. She played a variety of roles in Irish films, including Drinking Crude (1997), co-starring Colin Farrell, and TV movie Miracle at Midnight (1998), with Mia Farrow. In 2002, Eva appeared in two dramas about the same challenging subject, Bloody Sunday: the documentary-style TV drama Bloody Sunday, starring James Nesbitt, and Sunday, written by Jimmy McGovern.
In 2003, she appeared in the TV series Trust before starring as Roisin Hanlon in the Ken Loach movie Ae Fond Kiss... (2003-04), which won her the 2005 London Critics Circle Film Award as "British Actress of the Year".
She appeared in Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto, Ol Parker's Imagine Me & You and Save Angel Hope by Lukas Erni in 2005, and in Brian Kirk's Middletown in 2006.
Birthistle starred as human rights lawyer Jane Lavery in the TV conspiracy drama The State Within in 2006. In late 2007, she featured as Rembrandt's wife Saskia van Uylenburg in the historical drama, Nightwatching by Peter Greenaway.
She featured in the BBC drama The Last Enemy in early 2008, playing the role of Eleanor Brooke, a junior minister. In 2009, she portrayed Jenette in the last episode -season 2- of the BBC hit series Ashes to Ashes. That same year, she appeared in the independent horror film, Wake Wood.
She played "Annette Nicholls" in the 2010 three-part TV series Five Daughters. She appeared as Detective Superintendent Sarah Cavendish in the ninth, and final, series of Waking the Dead. In 2011, Birthistle appeared in the Sky1 TV series Strike Back: Project Dawn as Captain Kate Marshall.
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Brooklyn (2015)
, 1h51Directed by John Crowley
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Jim Broadbent, Emily Bett Rickards, Julie Walters
Roles Georgina
Rating74%
Young Irish immigrant Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) navigates her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of the USA, Eilis departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother's (Jane Brennan) home for the shores of New York City. The initial shackles of homesickness quickly diminish as a fresh romance sweeps Eilis into the intoxicating charm of love. But soon, her new vivacity is disrupted by her past, and Eilis must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Noble (2014)
, 1h40Directed by Stephen Bradley
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Sarah Greene, Brendan Coyle, Mark Huberman, Ruth Negga, Liam Cunningham, Pauline McLynn
Roles Sister Laura
Rating67%
The film is set in Vietnam in 1989, fourteen years after the end of the war. Christina Noble flies into Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), a country "that she wouldn't be able to show you on a map". With a few dollars, her own hard-won courage, she is about embark on a life calling. The film explores her tough upbringing in Dublin and her early adult life in the UK. It is the inspirational true story of a woman who believes that it only takes one person to make a difference.
Life's a Breeze (2013)
, 1h28Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Fionnula Flanagan, Eva Birthistle, Pat Shortt, Briain Gleeson, Brian Gleeson
Roles Margaret
Rating62%
A family of middle-aged children decides to clean out years of accumulated stuff from their elderly mother’s residence -- without her knowledge. So, one morning, they task (by bribing) her teenage granddaughter to take the cranky old lady out for the day. Upon returning in the early evening, and after the family shows her all the new household items and furniture, and how clean the place now is, retired school teacher Nan informs them all that she had stored 50 years of savings (from pension income, renting the basement apartment, what she had previously inherited, and, as she puts it, “whatever your Dad didn’t drink”) in her mattress – which is now gone -- and that the sum amounts to almost a million euros.
Wake Wood (2011)
, 1h30Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Timothy Spall, Aidan Gillen, Eva Birthistle, Brian Gleeson, Briain Gleeson, Dan Gordon
Roles Louise
Rating55%
Little Alice Daley is mauled to death by a German Shepherd dog in the yard of her father Patrick's veterinary practice. After her death, Patrick and his wife Louise, a pharmacist, move to a rural village called Wakewood, where they struggle to cope with the loss of their only child (Louise cannot have any more children). The couple's car mysteriously breaks down one evening in the middle of nowhere and they go to the nearby house of Patrick's veterinary colleague, Arthur, to seek help. There Louise witnesses Arthur leading a strange and bloody pagan ritual but refuses to say anything to Patrick. It becomes apparent that something strange is happening in town and that Arthur knows that Louise saw the ritual.
The Children (2008)
, 1h21Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about children, Films about families
Actors Eva Birthistle, Hannah Tointon, Stephen Campbel Moore, Eva Sayer, Rachel Shelley, Jeremy Sheffield
Roles Elaine
Rating59%
Casey (Hannah Tointon), a rebellious teenage girl, is travelling with her mother Elaine (Eva Birthistle), her stepfather Jonah (Stephen Campbell Moore), and her two younger half-siblings, Miranda (Eva Sayer) and Paulie (William Howes), to spend the New Year holiday at the secluded home of Elaine's sister, Chloe (Rachel Shelley). Chloe, her husband Robbie (Jeremy Sheffield), and their two young children, Nicky (Jake Hathaway) and Leah (Raffiella Brooks), welcome their visitors. Shortly after arriving, Paulie begins vomiting, which the adults believe is due to travel sickness.
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...! (2008)
, 1h40Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin Finlande
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts
Actors Peter Greenaway, Martin Freeman, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May, Emily Holmes, Natalie Press
Roles Saskia
Rating71%
Nightwatching (2007)
, 2h14Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Peinture
Actors Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Christopher Britton, Jodhi May, Toby Jones, Matthew Walker
Roles Saskia
Rating64%
The film is centred on the creation of The Night Watch, Rembrandt's most famous work, depicting civilian militiamen who wanted to be celebrated in a group portrait. The film posits a conspiracy to murder within the musketeer regiment of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, and suggests that Rembrandt may have immortalized a conspiracy theory using subtle allegory in his group portrait of the regiment, subverting what was to have been a highly prestigious commission for both painter and subject.
Reverb (2007)
Genres Horror
Actors Eva Birthistle, Margo Stilley, Stephen Lord, Neil Newbon, Luke de Woolfson
Roles Maddy
Rating39%
Breakfast on Pluto (2006)
, 2h9Directed by Neil Jordan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films about terrorism, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Political films, Conflit nord-irlandais, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Cillian Murphy, Ruth Negga, Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson, Gavin Friday
Roles Eily Bergin
Rating71%
The film is divided in over 30 chapters. In the fictional Irish town of Tyrellin, near the border of Northern Ireland in the late 1940s, cartoon robins narrate as Patrick Braden's mother, Eily Bergin, abandons him on the doorstep of the local parochial house where his father, Father Liam, lives. He is then placed with an unloving foster mother. Biologically male, a young Patrick is later shown donning a dress and lipstick, which angers his foster family. Patrick is accepted by his close friends Charlie, Irwin, and Lawrence, as well as by Lawrence's father, who tells Patrick Eily looked like blonde American movie star Mitzi Gaynor.
Imagine Me & You (2006)
, 1h34Directed by Ol Parker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Piper Perabo, Lena Headey, Matthew Goode, Celia Imrie, Anthony Head, Darren boyd
Roles Edie
Rating67%
The film opens on Rachel (Piper Perabo) and Hector's (Matthew Goode) wedding day in North London, England. Rachel's bossy and overbearing mother, Tess (Celia Imrie), is in charge, and dazed dad Ned (Anthony Head) and
Taken at the Flood (2005)
, 1h40Directed by Andrew Wilson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors David Suchet, David Yelland, Jenny Agutter, Patrick Baladi, Eva Birthistle, Amanda Douge
Roles Rosaleen/Eileen
Rating73%
Gordon, le membre le plus riche de la famille Cloade, épouse la jeune Rosaleen. Quelques jours plus tard, il meurt dans une explosion de gaz et toute sa fortune va à sa nouvelle femme. Cependant, selon un membre de la famille, le précédent mari de Rosaleen ne serait pas mort, ce qui empêcherait celle-ci d'hériter. Alors qu'un étranger s'installe dans le village, Poirot doit retrouver ce mari.
Ae Fond Kiss... (2004)
, 1h44Directed by Ken Loach
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, Films about religion, La précarité
Actors Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Gerard Kelly, Gary Lewis, David McKay, Raymond Mearns
Roles Roisin Hanlon
Rating70%
Set in Glasgow, the film tells the story of the Khan family. Casim is the only son of Pakistani Muslim immigrants to Scotland. He has a younger sister, Tahara, and an older sister Rukshana. Casim's parents, Tariq and Sadia, have arranged for him to marry his first cousin, Jasmine, and Casim is more or less happy with the arrangement. He then meets and falls in love with Roisin, an Irish Catholic immigrant (who is a part-time music teacher in Tahara's Catholic school). Roisin books a short holiday break for them both on seeing an advert in a travel agent's shop window, and while on holiday Casim tells her about the arranged marriage his family are planning for him. They then have to decide whether their love is strong enough to endure without the support of their respective communities.
Mystics (2003)
, 1h30Directed by David Blair
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Milo O'Shea, David Kelly, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Liam Cunningham, Doreen Keogh, Stanley Townsend
Roles Samantha
Rating58%
Dave et Locky ont créé une entreprise florissante en tant que médium du monde des esprits. S'appuyant sur leur passé théâtral, ils tiennent des séances dans une pièce qu'ils appellent le Temple de la vérité, chargeant les familles endeuillées de s'entretenir avec leur cher défunt.
Sunday (2002)
, 1h30Directed by Charles McDougall
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Ciarán McMenamin, Christopher Eccleston, Eva Birthistle, Kenny Doughty, Bríd Brennan, Del Synnott
Roles Maura Young
Rating69%
Borstal Boy (2001)
, 1h33Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Films about terrorism, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Shawn Hatosy, Danny Dyer, Lee Ingleby, Michael York, Eva Birthistle, Mark Huberman
Roles Liz Joyce
Rating67%
In 1941, 16-year-old IRA volunteer Brendan Behan (Shawn Hatosy) is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the Second World War. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England. At Borstal, Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those he perceived as "the enemy", a confrontation that reveals a deep inner conflict in the young Brendan and forces a self-examination that is both traumatic and revealing. Events take an unexpected turn and Brendan is thrown into a complete spin. In the emotional vortex, he finally faces up to the truth.