Brid Brennan

Brid Brennan

出生 : 1955-01-01, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

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Bríd Brennan is a Belfast born actress known for her work on the stage and screen.

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Brid Brennan

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My Sailor, My Love
Annie
A retired sea captain and his daughter must reassess their strained relationship after he begins a new romance with a widowed housekeeper.
Doineann
Labhaoise
When Tomás returns to his remote island holiday home he discovers his reclusive wife and child have vanished. With nowhere to turn and a storm approaching, he is forced to place his trust in the small community's lone retired police officer, Labhaoise, to investigate. As the search takes an unexpected turn, some uncomfortable truths are revealed. Meanwhile the storm looms ever closer.
Calm with Horses
Maire Mirkin
In darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Douglas 'Arm' Armstrong has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family, whilst also trying to be a good father to his autistic five-year-old son, Jack. Torn between these two families, Arm's loyalties are truly tested when he is asked to kill for the first time.
Phoenix
Anton is about to lose the two most important women in his life but it takes the story of the king's son to make him face his fate.
Lost Lives
This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Stalker
Diane
In the remote Scottish Highlands an aging stalker sets his wits and grit against a poacher who is taking the heads of his best stags.
マダム・フローレンス! 夢見るふたり
Kitty
メリル・ストリープとヒュー・グラントの顔合わせで、1944年にあった感動の実話を映画化。類稀なるオンチでありながら、ソプラノ歌手になる夢を追い続けるマダム・フローレンスが、持病と戦いながら夢を実現させる姿を描く。
The Truth Commissioner
Catherine Gilroy
Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. Eager to make good as a peacemaker, the Prime Minister urges a commission following the South African model of Truth and Reconciliation. But, though Stanfield starts bravely, he quickly uncovers some bloody and inconvenient truths about those now running the country; truths which none of those in power are prepared to have revealed.
ブルックリン
Miss Kelly
アイルランドの小さな町で、厳格な母親、憧れの姉とともに暮らすエイリシュ。町の食料品店で意地悪な女性店主にこき使われ、息苦しい毎日を送っていた彼女は、優しい姉の力添えを得て、単身アメリカのNYへと渡り、新たな生活をスタートすることに。当初は異郷での生活になかなかなじめず、ホームシックを募らせるエイリシュだったが、やがてダンスパーティーで知り合ったトニーという恋人もでき、明るさと元気を取り戻していく。
Henry V - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Queen Isabel
Shakespeare’s masterpiece of the turbulence of war and the arts of peace tells the romantic story of Henry’s campaign to recapture the English possessions in France. But the ambitions of this charismatic king are challenged by a host of vivid characters caught up in the real horrors of war. Henry V, which opened the new Globe with the words ‘O for a muse of fire’, celebrates the power of language to summon into life courts, pubs, ships and battlefields within the ‘wooden O’ - and beyond.
Shadow Dancer
Ma
Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne
Theresa Byrne
Born in London to single mum Bridget, Austin Byrne returns with her to her hometown in Ireland as a very young boy and learns that, from family to neighbours to the Church, no-one has a good word to say about either of them.
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Herself
Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.
Sunday
Mrs Young
Sunday tells the story of an infamous day in Derry, North of Ireland and how the events of that day were subsequently covered up by the British Government of the time. On Sunday 30th January 1972 a peaceful civil rights march against internment (imprisonment without trial), organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) ended with 13 marchers shot dead and 15 wounded. It became known throughout the world as Bloody Sunday. Told primarily from the perspective of the Derry community, juxtaposed with the British Army/state's preparations and reaction to the day, Sunday communicates the forensic and emotional truth of what happened
トプシー・ターヴィー
Mad Woman
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.
Felicia's Journey
Mrs Lysaght
A solitary middle-aged bachelor and a naive Irish teenager transform one another's lives to arrive at a place of recognition, redemption and wisdom in Atom Egoyan's adaptation of William Trevor's celebrated 1994 novel. Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks a serial killer. Hilditch has murdered several young women, but he has no conscious awareness of the crimes; like Felicia, he doesn't see his true self. Felicia's Journey is a story of innocence lost and regained: Felicia awakens to the world's dangers and duplicities; and Hilditch, who grew up lonely and unloved, comes to realize what was taken from him, and what he himself has taken.
Dancing at Lughnasa
Agnes 'Aggie' Mundy
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Trojan Eddie
Betty
Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather than inform on his partner in a failed burglary, Eddie now struggles to raise his two daughters alone. Power falls for and marries traveler girl Kathleen, but when she runs off with Power's nephew Dermot — and takes the $11,000 dowry with her — Eddie must track the couple down.
Words Upon the Window Pane
Stella
In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel.
Guinevere
Morgan L'Fei
As border wars break out in Camelot, the young princess Guinevere is taken to live in safety with the High Priestess L'Fei. When King Arthur claims the crown, Guinevere is promised to him and she must leave her true love, Prince Lancelot in order to unite the land. In a tale of honor, loyalty and the price of war, Guinevere is forced to choose between the only man she has ever loved and her duty to her kingdom.
Hedda Gabler
Thea Elvsted
Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up on the scene with tragic results
Tell Tale Hearts
Sally McCann
Anthony Steadman, a child murderer, is being released from prison after 17 years. Sally McCann, a mother whose child disappeared around the time of the original murders, pursues Steadman. Also on his trail is Becky Wilson, a local radio reporter, for whom the case brings back ghosts from her own past.
Ghostwatch
Pamela Early
For Halloween 1992, the BBC decides to broadcast an investigation into the supernatural, hosted by TV chat-show legend Michael Parkinson. Parky (assisted by Mike Smith, Sarah Greene & Craig Charles) and a camera crew attempt to discover the truth behind the most haunted house in Britain. This ground-breaking live television experiment does not go as planned, however.
'Itch
Susan Turnbull
A lone hitch hiker, marooned near a housing estate, has a dramatic effect on the lives of those around him.
Who Bombed Birmingham?
Sister of IRA man
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks
Lorna
Lorna Martin
In the follow-up to Graham Reid’s trilogy of ‘Billy’ plays, Billy's sister Lorna Martin is left to care for their Uncle Andy. Lorna feels trapped, but Andy wishes to give her the freedom she desires.
Up Line
Grace O'Brien
Three alternative comedians get involved in a pyramid-selling organization, Pathway, in order to finance their act. They gain great success by deploying their skills as entertainers, only to eventually discover the sinister purpose behind the Pathway organization.
Playboy of the Western World
Pegeen Mike
A story of love, rivalry and betrayal – Synge’s best-known work is a must-see from this multi-award winning company.' Synge’s great comic masterpiece tells the story of Christy Mahon, who stumbles into a public house in County Mayo claiming he has killed his father and so capturing the romantic attention of the daughter of the house, Pegeen Mike. Performed at Donmar Warehouse in London's Covent Garden by the Druid Theatre Company of Galway, Ireland.
Four Days in July
Colette
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.
Anne Devlin
Anne Devlin
The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803, told exclusively from the woman's point of view.
A Coming to Terms for Billy
Lorna Martin
Belfast, 1980: July, the marching season ... Norman Martin, away for two years, returns with his 'English woman', Mavis. How will the family - particularly Billy - react? And has she achieved the impossible in mellowing the man?
A Matter of Choice for Billy
Lorna Martin
Belfast 1978: the Martin family, a year on. Norman is away in England, and his eldest son, Billy, and daughter, Lorna, are in charge of their younger sisters, Ann and Maureen.
Too Late to Talk to Billy
Lorna Martin
Relationships are strained in a Belfast family, particularly between a father and his son.
The Ballroom of Romance
Patty Byrne
A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.
Maeve
Roisin
Maeve returns home to Belfast after a long absence. Her arrival in the city stimulates a series of memories of childhood and adolescence both in herself and other people.
Excalibur
Lady in Waiting
A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his Knights of the Round Table for the Holy Grail, and ultimately his death.