Emer McCourt

Emer McCourt

Nacimiento : , Newry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, UK

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Born in Newry, County Down in Northern Ireland in 1964, Emer McCourt is an actress, producer, novelist and singer.

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Emer McCourt

Películas

North
Mary
Isolated on a farm and fighting against his family's decision, Aaron struggles to be heard as he watches his mother willingly die.
Sunset Heights
Emer Bradley
Irish thriller starring Toby Stephens. Belfast of the near future finds the city ruled by two rival law-enforcing punishment squads. When Luke Bradley (Stephens)'s son is found murdered, suspicion falls upon the local preacher (Jim Norton). Taken to Sunset Heights, a druid's circle on a hill overlooking the city, the accused is summarily executed by the boy's father. However, when another child goes missing, it appears that they have killed the wrong man - or that the preacher has come back from the dead to wreak his revenge...
Generación Éxtasis
Producer
Cinco individuos (Jip, Lulu, Koop, Nina y Moff) sobreviven al tedio de sus rutinarios trabajos con el único objetivo de vivir a fondo el fin de semana. Jip y Lulu tienen problemas de pareja: Jip se siente inseguro después de fallar varias veces durante su actuación de esa noche, y el talento de Lulu para arrimarse al sujeto equivocado empieza a deprimirla. Nina y Koop tienen una buena relación (aunque él no confía nada en ella), y Moff, el amigo que les pasa el material, está obsesionado por un subidón rápido.
Loop
Rachel
Rachel discovers she is pregnant. Just as she is about to break the news to her stockbroker boyfriend Bill, he dumps her. Heartbroken and angry, Rachel takes Bill's cherished sports car, clears out their joint bank account and heads off to the country and to her dysfunctional family's farmhouse. By trying to sort out her own family's problems Rachel hopes to come to terms with her own predicament. But Bill discovers her whereabouts and is on the warpath.
Boston Kickout
Shona
School leaver Phil moves with his father from inner-city London to the satellite Hertfordshire New Town of Stevenage, where they are promised a brighter future...but all Phil finds there is a bleak, cultural wilderness; a world of unemployment, violence, alcoholism and drug abuse in 90s Britain
Men of the Month
Kim
Tracey, a hyperactive, inarticulate bicycle courier who unsuccessfully woos his girlfriend, watches Star Trek videos and delivers packages for a women's erotic magazine, "Bad and Beautiful". As the female staff produce their new issue, they are watched by builders restoring their crumbling off ice block - each of them with an interest in the women within.
The House of Bernarda Alba
Beggar
A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
London Kills Me
Sylvie
For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible" pair of shoes, an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him.
Riff-Raff
Susan
Steve es un joven nacido en Glasgow que, tras salir de la cárcel, se traslada a Londres donde pretende iniciar una nueva vida trabajando en la construcción. El empleo está mal pagado y no le permite tener un sitio donde vivir, de manera que vaga de un lugar a otro sin encontrar estabilidad. Casualmente, conoce a Susan, una joven que, como él, vive a la deriva intentando darse a conocer como cantante. Juntos compartirán miedos, inquietudes, alegrías e ilusiones. Un drama que, con un toque de humor y romanticismo, logra conmover al espectador.
Shoot To Kill
E4A Officer
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.
Hush-a-Bye Baby
Goretti Friel
In 1984, a pregnant Irish girl tries to contact her boyfriend in British prison but her letters are not allowed through to him because she writes in Irish.