Ann Skelly

Birth : 1996-12-07, Dublin, Ireland

History

Ann Skelly is an Irish actress who first came to fame in 2015 with her role as the troubled teenager Rachel Reid in TV3's soap opera/crime drama Red Rock, a role that placed her at the heart of the drama across two seasons. In 2016, she starred as Biddy Lambert in RTÉ's historical drama Rebellion and she appeared as Annie Moffat in the BBC's adaptation of Little Women over Christmas 2017. In 2018, she was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award for best actress for her first film Kissing Candice, in which she played the titular role. Also that year she starred in the adaptation of Eugene McCabe's novel Death and Nightingales alongside Jamie Dornan and Matthew Rhys. In 2021 she played Penance Adair in the TV series The Nevers for HBO.

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Movies

100 Years of Ulysses

Self - Narrator (voice)

Paris, France, February 2, 1922. The novel Ulysses, by Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941), is published by US poet Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), owner of the small bookstore Shakespeare & Co. The book, whose writing consumed seven years of Joyce's life, years in which his family was in financial need, would have a profound and unprecedented impact on 20th century literature and culture.

Rose Plays Julie

Rose

Rose Plays Julie is the story of a young woman searching for her biological mother. Set against a backdrop of misogyny, revenge, and longing, Rose undertakes a journey that leads her to revelations that are both devastating and dangerous.

Kissing Candice

Candice

Candice longs to escape the boredom of her seaside town, but when a boy she dreams about turns up in real life, she becomes involved with a dangerous local gang.

Seanie & Flo

Flo

Seanie is a lonely, borderline delusional man who empties bins on the sparse stretches of motorways that haven’t been populated with service stations yet. He’s also responsible for picking up the rubbish that is illegally dumped around the outskirts of the town. Flo is a belligerent teenage girl on her first day doing community service for spraying graffiti around the town. Today is their first day working together and their attitudes to both rubbish and art couldn’t be any more different. When they catch a couple illegally dumping on a roadside, a feverish chase ensues. Seanie & Flo is a short comedy about learning when to break the rules.