Pauline McLynn
Birthday: 1962-07-11
Place of Birth: Sligo, Republic of Ireland
Biography: Pauline McLynn (born 11 July 1962) is an Irish character actress and author. She is best known for her roles as Mrs. Doyle in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted, Libby Croker in the Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless, Tip Haddem in the BBC One comedy Jam & Jerusalem, and Yvonne Cotton in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Movies
Gypo
Gypo is the story of a working class family in Margate, Kent, a town where immigrants have become th...
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Last Night in Soho
A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she enc...
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An Everlasting Piece
Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could ha...
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Heidi
Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, wh...
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My Friend Joe
During the course of one summer, a young Irish lad named Chris befriends an American boy named Joe. ...
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Dermot Morgan - Fearless Funnyman
A selection of Dermot Morgan's family, friends, colleagues and admirers, including Pat Shortt, Olive...
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Black Day at Black Rock
Satirical take on the reactions of the inhabitants of an Irish village when they learn that a group ...
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Out!
A heartfelt comedy drama about the parent/child relationship, the generation gap, the fear of reject...
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The Playboy of the Western World
A story of love, rivalry and betrayal – Synge’s best-known work is a must-see from this multi-award ...
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The Return
A former alcoholic returns home after ten years in prison for the murder of her husband. As her reco...
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Noble
Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny...
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The Secret Scripture
The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passi...
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Iris
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from t...
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Family
This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a...
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Angela's Ashes
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed ...
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Her Own Rules
Melissa Gilbert stars as Meredith. A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for...
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Transformers: The Last Knight
Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried ...
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When Brendan Met Trudy
Brendan is an earnest, introverted schoolteacher who, aside from his participation in the local choi...
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Dave Allen at Peace
Filmed in homage to his original TV series, this fictionalised account follows Dave Allen from chil...
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Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
Morten, a ten-year-old boy, is shrunk to the size of an insect due to a magical fog gun. Soon, he fi...
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Quills
In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writi...
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Nora
In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She ...
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Far and Away
A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they...
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Making Noise Quietly
Three stories of strangers meeting on the edge of war. A conscientious objector and a roaming artist...
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A Girl from Mogadishu
The story of the life and times of Ifrah Ahmed, Somali-Irish campaigner against female genital mutil...
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Johnny English Strikes Again
Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents i...
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Riverdance: The Animated Adventure
A young Irish boy named Keegan and Spanish girl named Moya journey into a magical world of the Megal...
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The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
Unimpressive, 24-year-old virgin, Eamonn (Kris Marshall) lives in Belfast with his mother, during th...
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Deadly Cuts
A black comedy set in a working-class Dublin hair salon where the stylists become accidental vigilan...
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Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
Three Mysterious Curses, two lost souls... and one incredibly difficult dance. A lowly goatherd see...
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Sweet Delusion
A criminal on the run hides out in the rural farmhouse of an elderly woman, who believes her to be h...
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