Occupation Actress | ||
Books Monstrous Regimant and Plays Nominations WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Play Movies Oliver Twist, The Heart of Me, Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdo, The Kindness of Strang, Mr Nice Similar Thaddeus O'Sullivan, Sarah Greene, Michael Grandage, Pawel Edelman, Roman Polanski | ||
Gillian Hanna is an Irish stage, film, TV and voice actor. She founded the feminist Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company about which she wrote a book that was published in 1991.
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Early life
Hanna graduated with a First Class degree in Modern Languages from Trinity College, Dublin. She went on to work as an actor as well as a translator.
Career
In 1975, Hanna founded the feminist Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company. Hanna worked with the company for fifteen years. She later published a book about the company, Monstrous Regiment: A Collective Celebration. An essay of hers, "An Age Of Innocence", was published in the collection Trinity Tales: Trinity College In The Sixties. She has extensive credits on stage as well as on TV and film.
Hanna also had a bit part playing the very fragile and somewhat 'delicate' typist teacher Mrs Gossage in the sixth series of Grange Hill (1983).