Occupation Actress | Years active 2006–present | |
Movies The Legend of Longwood, Leave | ||
Kathy Rose O'Brien is an actress from Dublin, Ireland, who has appeared in the Irish television drama Whistleblower, which dealt with the controversial events at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda relating to obstetrician/gynecologist Michael Neary, and in theatre productions including Leaves, The Burial at Thebes, The Birthday Party, The Fall of Herodias Hattigan and The Plough and the Stars.
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O'Brien holds a BA (Hons) in Drama and Theatre Studies from The Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2006.
Theatre
In 2007, O'Brien appeared in the Druid Theatre Company production of Leaves, written by the Belfast playwright and novelist Lucy Caldwell and directed by Garry Hynes. For this performance, she received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress in the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards in 2007.
She played Rosie Redmond in the Seán O'Casey play, The Plough and the Stars at Dublin's historic Abbey Theatre in 2010
Selected stage credits
Television
In 2008, O'Brien played Marie, a nurse, in the award-winning television drama, Whistleblower, based on actual events at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth in the 1990s, where Michael Neary, an Irish consultant obstetrician/gynecologist, was struck off the Register of Medical Practitioners for professional misconduct relating to the performance of caesarian hysterectomies.
O'Brien also appeared in the BBC's detective series, George Gently in an episode entitled "Bomber's Moon".
In 2014, she portrayed Sara Shah in the ITV mini-series, Chasing Shadows.
Film
O'Brien's film credits include the short films The Orange (2006) and Daughter of the Brotherhood (2007).