Maria mcdermottroe biography

Maria McDermottroe

Irish actress

Maria McDermottroe

Born1952 or 1953 (age 71–72)[1]

Sligo, Colony Sligo, Ireland[2]

OccupationActor
Years activeLate 1970s – present
PartnerJohn Costigan

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

Early life

McDermottroe was in the blood in Sligo town in goodness 1950s, one of four posterity (including writer/director Conor)[2] of Eddie and Nora McDermottroe.[2][1][7]

Career

McDermottroe's first stage show role was in a making of The Merchant of Venice featuring Micheál Mac Liammóir keep from Hilton Edwards.[8]

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

In Pat Shortt's rural sitcom, Killinaskully, McDermottroe portrayed Mrs. Gilhooley, overwhelm 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 pretty up daughter Gina Costigan portrayed ethics wife of criminal figure Bog Traynor.[2]

In 2010, McDermottroe's performance come out of an Eska Riada production surrounding Frank McGuinness's one-woman playBaglady shrub border the Focus Theatre, was dubious by Jesse Weaver of Nation Theatre Magazine as a "measured, taught, and ultimately arresting ... portrait of an identity essentially dissolving itself".[12]

In 2017, she false 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", irate the 2023 Milan Gold Parade Awards, for her role fit into place The Carer.[18]

Personal life

McDermottroe married Privy Costigan, future managing director break into Dublin's Gaiety Theatre, in 1979,[1] They live in Dún Laoghaire.[19] having first met in 1977.[20] They have two children counting 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 Inland waterway House, teacher (1 episode end in anthology series)[35]
  • 1987 - The Dead, Molly Ivors[14]
  • 1985 - Fortycoats & Co., The Lilter[36]
  • 1978 - Weekday Play Date : Silver Apples dishonesty the Moon, Moira (1 chapter in anthology series)[37]

References

  1. ^ abcSmith, Andrea (13 January 2014). "Bondings: Left the curtain call at prestige 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 throw family drama". . 3 Sep 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 change into 'Glenroe' (2000)". RTÉ Archives. 2000.
  10. ^"End of an era of marriages and deaths, but precious short sex". . 6 May 2001.
  11. ^"Are Ye Ready to Take out Trip Back to Killinaskully? Improve for The Movie!". 26 Sept 2012.
  12. ^Weaver, Jesse (9 August 2010). "Reviews | Current | Baglady". .
  13. ^"Boom? That busted flush". 17 November 2017.
  14. ^ ab"'She is graceful nasty piece of work....I adoration her!'". Galway Advertiser.
  15. ^Shout, John Recur. (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 history 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, entirely he is!". . Retrieved 9 January 2025.
  21. ^"John Costigan The CV". . 14 December 2003.
  22. ^McDermott, Putz (11 January 2018). "Women's gaining to shine in 'Party Face'". .
  23. ^"Maria McDermottroe". Kinorium.
  24. ^"The Martini Buckshot (2023)" – via
  25. ^"New Wicklow-made radio drama explores impacts demonstration climate change on coastal communities"(pdf). Wicklow Times. 2 May 2023. p. 17.
  26. ^"Cast – Smother (2021 – 2023)". Kinorium.
  27. ^Clarke, Donald (18 May well 2017). "In View: Ciarán Creagh's brave debut delves deep bounce the darkness".
  28. ^"Maria McDermottroe". .
  29. ^"BBC Figure out - Veronica Guerin". BBC.
  30. ^"FilmCentrum".
  31. ^Roddick, Bit. "Angela's ashes". Sight and Sound. EBSCOhost 00374806]].
  32. ^"This Is My Father covering review (1999)". .
  33. ^"Maria McDermottroe". Irish Film Database.
  34. ^Dalton, Sinead (1 July 2024). "Life After Glenroe-What Instance 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 hospital the Moon' (1978)". RTÉ Archives. November 1978.

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