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Dervla Kirwan

Dervla Kirwan

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Dervla Kirwan (born 24 October 1971) is an Irish actress famous for roles in British television shows such as Ballykissangel and Goodnight Sweetheart. She also appeared in the Doctor Who Christmas special episode, "The Next Doctor" and provided the voiceovers for the well-known "this is not just food" television advertising campaign for UK retailer Marks & Spencer.

Kirwan was born in Churchtown, Dublin, Ireland. Her father was an insurance broker, and her mother was a language teacher. She is the youngest of three daughters. Dervla is a great grand-daughter of Margaret Collins-O'Driscoll who was a sister of Michael Collins, one of the Irish leaders during the War of Independence.

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Silent Hours (2021)

Private detective John Duval, an ex-lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy and Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for a sexual killer when three women are brutally murdered. ...

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Last Call (2021)

A real estate developer returns to his old Philly neighborhood and must decide to raze or resurrect the family bar. ...

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The Keeper (2018)

The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Man ...

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Interlude in Prague (2017)

The incredible tale of Mozart's Prague years. ...

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Lunacy: The Making of Luna (2015)

The making-of documentary for Dave McKean's film "Luna. ...

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Luna (2014)

Renowned artist and filmmaker Dave McKean (MirrorMask) brings his distinctive blend of live action and gorgeously wrought animation to this dreamlike reverie about four people whose weekend idyll in an isolated English seaside home becomes an opportunity f ...

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Entity (2012)

In 1998, thirty four unidentified bodies were found in shallow graves in a remote Siberian forest. After subsequent investigations, no official explanation by the Russian authorities was ever offered about the circumstances of the deaths. ...

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Ondine (2010)

On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a divorced fisherman who has stopped drinking. His precocious daughter Annie has failing kidneys. One day, he finds a nearly-drowned young woman in his net; she calls herself Ondine and wants no one to see her. He puts her ...

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Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008)

The Doctor arrives in Victorian London. It's Christmas, but snow isn't the only thing descending on the tranquil and jubilant civilization, as familiar silver giants from an alternate reality are amassing in numbers. The Cybermen are on the move again, and ...

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Keeping the Peace (2005)

Five hundred soldiers of the Irish Defence Forces are stationed in Liberia, part of a 15,000-strong United Nations Peacekeeping mission, the largest UN force in the world. What does it mean to these young men and women to be peacekeepers? What does it mean ...

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School for Seduction (2004)

An Italian temptress arrives at a school in Newcastle to teach a group of Geordies about the art of romance. ...

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The Deputy (2004)

The Deputy explores Bob Galway's life and work in the House of Commons and how it impacts on his personal life. Bob's a Deputy PM who is a man of the people - opinionated, principled and pragmatic. Surrounded by inefficient, highly-sexed private secretarie ...

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Tetris: From Russia with Love (2004)

This is the story behind the fiendishly addictive game, a tale of high stakes, intimidation and legal feuds set against the backdrop of Cold War tensions between East and West. ...

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A Tale of Two Wives (2003)

Bill Goodman is a celebrated psychiatrist who leads a double life: he has a wife and daughter in New York; at the same time, the bigamist has another wife in London. Despite his long absences both families lived in domestic bliss, until one day the wives f ...

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Pete's Meteor (2002)

Lives change for members of an Irish family after a meteor crashes in their backyard. The kids believe that it was sent down to them by their dead parents, but the government hauls the rock away and sends it to the local university. ...

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The Bombmaker (2001)

Expert IRA bomb-maker turned police informant Andrea Hayes retires and starts a new life after four school-children are killed by one of her bombs. Ten years later, her blissful home life shattered when her daughter, Katie, is abducted from her bedroom in ...

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Happy Birthday Shakespeare (2000)

Family man Will Green, a tourist bus driver is convinced that life would be better if he and his family moved to the birthplace of his favourite man Shakespeare's birthplace Stratford-Upon-Avon where he could open his own restaurant. Will also harboured dr ...

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The Greatest Store in the World (1999)

Geraldine and her two daughters, Livvie and Angeline, are living rough on the streets on London. When their van blows up, they must find an alternative place to stay. At first, they live in temporary housing, but the conditions are unbearable. Geraldine re ...

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The Flint Street Nativity (1999)

With angels crying in the toilets all because of a jealous Angel Gabriel, it could only be the eagerly awaited performance of the Primary school nativity play - this time with a twist! The UK's finest comedy actors take the leading roles as the eight year ...

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With or Without You (1999)

Rosie and Vincent have known each other for ten years, and have been married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her dad. They're trying to have a baby. One morning Benoit, a Frenchman and former pen pal of Rosie, whom she ...

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The Dark Room (1999)

In hospital, photographer Jinx Kingsley wakes from a coma after a car crash - a failed suicide attempt, prompted by her fiance Leo jilting her to elope with Jinx's lifelong best friend, Meg. The discovery of Leo and Meg's bodies - brutally murdered in the ...

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Sex in a Cold Climate (1998)

Interlocking interviews of 4 women interred in various Magdalene asylums and/or orphanages because of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, being sexually assaulted, or just being "too pretty". ...

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Mr White Goes To Westminster (1997)

A journalist becomes an independent MP. Loosely based on the election of Martin Bell to the constituency of Tatton between 1997 and 2001. ...

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War of the Buttons (1994)

War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing. ...

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December Bride (1990)

At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, she refuses to reveal the name of the father. ...

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The Lilac Bus (1990)

The lives of seven friends who share a bus from their village to Dublin every day get complicated as the reasons for their discontent are revealed. ...

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The Fantasist (1986)

A young Dublin woman is stalked by a telephone charmer who poses victims nude and then stabs them. ...

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