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Name
  
Olwen Fouere


Role
  
Actress

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Parents
  
Marie-Magdeleine Mauger, Yann Fouere

Movies
  
The Survivalist, This Must Be the Place, The Other Side Of Sleep, The Sleep of Death, Quarantine

Similar People
  
Stephen Fingleton, Yann Fouere, Rebecca Daly, Paolo Sorrentino, Kelly Campbell

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Olwen Fouéré is an actress, writer and theatre artist born on the west coast of Ireland of Breton parents Yann Fouéré and Marie-Magdeleine Mauger.

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Theatre

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As a free-lance actress, Fouéré's has worked with the Abbey Theatre, the Gate Theatre, the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1980 she formed Operating Theatre, an avant-garde theatre company with composer Roger Doyle. She recently established an artistic entity called 'TheEmergencyRoom' for the development of her ongoing projects.

Film

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  • The Survivalist directed by Stephen Fingleton. Role: Kathryn.
  • This Must Be the Place directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Role: Mary's mother.
  • The Other Side of Sleep directed by Rebecca Daly. Role: Maggie.

    • Television

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  • Above Suspicion (Mrs Hughes) /Gillies MacKinnon/ ITV/ by Lynda LaPlante
  • The Ambassador /Ken Grieve/ Ecosse Film and TV
  • Ballykissangel series one /Chris Harrison / BBC
  • Hard Shoulder /MirrorFilms/RTÉ/Channel 4/ by Mark Kilroy
  • When Reason Sleeps (Celia)/ R. Wynne Simmons /RTÉ/ Channel 4
  • Time After Time (Young Nun) /Bill Hays/ BBC
  • The Irish R.M. (Miss Malone) /Roy Ward-Baker / BBC/RTÉ
  • A Painful Case (Mary Sinico) / John Lynch /RTÉ/ Channel 4
  • The Babysitters /Pat O'Connor / RTÉ

    • Visual Arts

    Olwen Fouéré features in several works by artist James Coleman which continue to be shown internationally. Their first collaboration So Different and Yet... which was created in 1980 was recently shown at IMMA during March and April 2009 as part of the large James Coleman retrospective exhibition.

    Awards

  • 'Best Actress' in the Irish Times/ESB theatre awards 1999.
  • 'Best Actress' in the Irish Times/ESB theatre awards 2000.
  • 'Best Actress' in the Irish Times/ESB theatre awards 2006.
  • 'Best Actress' in the Irish Times/ESB theatre awards 2011.
  • 'Best Actor' at the Dublin Theatre Festival 2003.
  • 'Samuel Beckett Award' at the Dublin Theatre Festival 1998.

    • Publications

    She has contributed to a number of publications on contemporary theatre and performance including:

  • The Dreaming Body, edited by Melissa Sihra and Paul Murphy;
  • Women in Irish Drama, edited by Melissa Sihra
  • Actors Voices: the people behind the performances, edited by Patrcik O'Kane
  • The Theatre of Marina Carr, edited by Cathy Leeney and Anna McMullan
  • Theatre Talk, edited by Lilian Chambers, Ger Fitzgibbon and Eamonn Jordan
  • Operating Theatre 1980–2008

    • Documentary

    A documentary of a year in her life, "Theatre in the Flesh" directed by Dara McCluskey, was produced for RTÉ's Arts Lives series in 2005.

    Olwen Fouéré How Olwen Four conquered Beckett39s memory challenge

    References

    Olwen Fouéré Wikipedia
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