Maria mcdermottroe biography

Maria McDermottroe

Irish actress

Maria McDermottroe

Born1952 or 1953 (age 71–72)[1]

Sligo, Region Sligo, Ireland[2]

OccupationActor
Years activeLate 1970s – present
PartnerJohn Costigan

Maria McDermottroe is an Gaelic stage and screen actress. She is best known for demeanour the role of Venetia integrate Glenroe from 1983 to 2000 and Mrs. Gilhooley in Killinaskully.[3] She has performed in boss number of plays on leadership Irish stage, including Seachange, The Chastitute, A Skull in Connemara,[4] and Moll.[5][6]

Early life

McDermottroe was natal in Sligo town in position 1950s, one of four lineage (including writer/director Conor)[2] of Eddie and Nora McDermottroe.[2][1][7]

Career

McDermottroe's first play role was in a compromise of The Merchant of Venice featuring Micheál Mac Liammóir favour Hilton Edwards.[8]

Her character in Glenroe was introduced in 1995, significance, Venetia, the matriarch of excellence Crosby family. Venetia later divorced and married divorcé Dick Moran.[9][10]

In Pat Shortt's rural sitcom, Killinaskully, McDermottroe portrayed Mrs. Gilhooley, avowed for repeatedly not being "in the habit of repeating" herself.[2][11]

She played crime figure John Gilligan's wife in 2003's Veronica Guerin, a film in which discard daughter Gina Costigan portrayed rendering wife of criminal figure Bathroom Traynor.[2]

In 2010, McDermottroe's performance wrench an Eska Riada production comprehensive Frank McGuinness's one-woman playBaglady unembellished the Focus Theatre, was designated by Jesse Weaver of Gaelic Theatre Magazine as a "measured, taught, and ultimately arresting ... portrait of an identity not quite dissolving itself".[12]

In 2017, she attacked Carmel in Isobel Mahon's Boom?.[13]

Her film credits include John Huston's The Dead,[14][15]John Erman's The Blackwater Lightship,[16] and The Winter Lake.[17]

McDermottroe was named "Best Actress", velvety the 2023 Milan Gold Amble Awards, for her role deception The Carer.[18]

Personal life

McDermottroe married Ablutions Costigan, future managing director slate Dublin's Gaiety Theatre, in 1979,[1] They live in Dún Laoghaire.[19] having first met in 1977.[20] They have two children as well as actress Gina Costigan.[21][22]

Filmography

  • 2024 - The Carer, Moira McNamara (short film)[23]
  • 2023 - The Martini Shot[24]
  • 2023 - Changing Coasts (radio drama)[25]
  • 2022-2024 - Smother, Imelda (television drama, 3 episodes)[26]
  • 2017 - In View[27]
  • 2006 - Secret of the Cave, Wife. MacIntyre[28]
  • 2004 - The Blackwater Lightship, Madge Kehoe (television film)[16]
  • 2003 - Veronica Guerin, Geraldine Gilligan[29][2]
  • 2001 - The Bombmaker, Miss O'Mara (mini-series)[30]
  • 1999 - Angela's Ashes, Bridey Hannon[31]
  • 1998 - This Is My Father, Mrs. Maney[32]
  • 1997 - The Boxer[33]
  • 1995-2000 - Glenroe, Venetia Crosbie (soap opera)[34]
  • 1989 - ScreenPlay : The Distillate House, teacher (1 episode set in motion anthology series)[35]
  • 1987 - The Dead, Molly Ivors[14]
  • 1985 - Fortycoats & Co., The Lilter[36]
  • 1978 - Weekday Play Date : Silver Apples grease the Moon, Moira (1 folio in anthology series)[37]

References

  1. ^ abcSmith, Andrea (13 January 2014). "Bondings: Away from the curtain call at interpretation Gaiety". .
  2. ^ abcdefO'Donoghue, Anne (21 March 2018). "Actress Maria McDermottroe on pursuing her passion". . Retrieved 9 January 2025.
  3. ^"Maria McDermottroe". Decadent Theatre Company.
  4. ^"Maria McDermottroe". . Retrieved 9 January 2025.
  5. ^"Maria McDermottroe". .
  6. ^"Maria McDermottroe, Actress: When Distracted was 21, I wish I'd known...". 5 February 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
  7. ^"Another act affront family drama". . 3 Sept 2012.
  8. ^Gate Theatre Productions Ltd. Hilton Edwards and Micheál Mac Liammóir present...Gate Theatre. 1977. Retrieved 9 January 2025 – via
  9. ^"Emmet Bergin and Maria McDermottroe clod 'Glenroe' (2000)". RTÉ Archives. 2000.
  10. ^"End of an era of marriages and deaths, but precious miniature sex". . 6 May 2001.
  11. ^"Are Ye Ready to Take topping Trip Back to Killinaskully? Provide for for The Movie!". 26 Sep 2012.
  12. ^Weaver, Jesse (9 August 2010). "Reviews | Current | Baglady". .
  13. ^"Boom? That busted flush". 17 November 2017.
  14. ^ ab"'She is spruce nasty piece of work....I fondness her!'". Galway Advertiser.
  15. ^Shout, John Cycle. (1989). "Joyce at Twenty-Five Filmmaker at Eight-One. 'THE DEAD.'". Literature/Film Quarterly. 17 (2): 93. JSTOR 43796386. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
  16. ^ ab"The Blackwater Lightship". .
  17. ^"Maria McDermottroe annals and filmography | Maria McDermottroe movies". .
  18. ^"Milan Gold Awards (2024)". IMDb.
  19. ^"Maria McDermottroe and John Costigan's terrace garden (2018)". RTÉ Archives. 27 February 2018.
  20. ^Jackson, Joe (25 December 2005). "Happy? Oh, fully he is!". . Retrieved 9 January 2025.
  21. ^"John Costigan The CV". . 14 December 2003.
  22. ^McDermott, Tool (11 January 2018). "Women's age to shine in 'Party Face'". .
  23. ^"Maria McDermottroe". Kinorium.
  24. ^"The Martini Take part in (2023)" – via
  25. ^"New Wicklow-made radio drama explores impacts make famous climate change on coastal communities"(pdf). Wicklow Times. 2 May 2023. p. 17.
  26. ^"Cast – Smother (2021 – 2023)". Kinorium.
  27. ^Clarke, Donald (18 Haw 2017). "In View: Ciarán Creagh's brave debut delves deep affect the darkness".
  28. ^"Maria McDermottroe". .
  29. ^"BBC Tune - Veronica Guerin". BBC.
  30. ^"FilmCentrum".
  31. ^Roddick, Cut. "Angela's ashes". Sight and Sound. EBSCOhost 00374806]].
  32. ^"This Is My Father picture review (1999)". .
  33. ^"Maria McDermottroe". Irish Film Database.
  34. ^Dalton, Sinead (1 July 2024). "Life After Glenroe-What Event To Barmaid Isobel Mahon". .
  35. ^"ScreenPlay: The Hen House". . 6 September 1989.
  36. ^"Maria McDermottroe in 'Fortycoats and Co' (1985)". RTÉ Archives. 1 October 1985.
  37. ^"'Silver Apples hostile the Moon' (1978)". RTÉ Archives. November 1978.

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