Olwen Fouéré

Olwen Fouéré

Birthday: 1954-03-02

Place of Birth: Ireland

Biography: Olwen Fouéré is an actress and writer/director in theatre, film and visual arts. She was born on the west coast of Ireland of Breton parents Yann Fouéré and Marie-Magdeleine Mauger. In 2020, she was listed at number 22 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Olwen Fouéré, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

Far Calls
Far Calls

A film about life and death, following the final moments of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, as the riv...

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Time After Time
Time After Time

'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when sh...

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All You Need Is Death
All You Need Is Death

A young couple who collect rare folk ballads discover the dark side of love when they surreptitiousl...

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Joyride
Joyride

12-year-old Mully has lost his mother and discovers his debt-ridden father stealing the charity mone...

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This Must Be the Place
This Must Be the Place

A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a...

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The Other Side of Sleep
The Other Side of Sleep

Loosely inspired by the director’s own memory of a girl’s disappearance from her village, the film f...

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The Sleep of Death
The Sleep of Death

Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of...

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Radha
Radha

Rural Ireland. Twelve year old Radha lives a solitary life with her Grandmother. After witnessing th...

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The Watchers
The Watchers

A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after fin...

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Bardo
Bardo

A woman questions her lifestyle choices when the travails of urban living are one day jolted into ju...

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The Irreducible Difference of the Other
The Irreducible Difference of the Other

"This experimental film embodies an implicit critique of the male paradigm where the fetishisation o...

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The Tower
The Tower

Exploring the medieval female mystics who came before the witch trials, it resonates with seismic sh...

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She Will
She Will

Veronica, an aging film star, retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse Desi to recover fr...

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Falling into Place
Falling into Place

Kira and Ian – both in their mid-30s – meet on a winter weekend on the Isle of Skye. Both are on the...

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Sunrise
Sunrise

When an ex-cop named Fallon returns to the scene of a horrific crime, the residents of a rural town ...

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Cult Killer
Cult Killer

A private investigator is forced into a dangerous alliance with a killer in order to uncover a quiet...

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Tarot
Tarot

When a group of friends recklessly violate the sacred rule of Tarot readings, they unknowingly unlea...

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The Survivalist
The Survivalist

In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When tw...

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The Actor
The Actor

Paul Cole finds himself stranded in a mysterious small town with no memory of who he is or how he go...

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Four Letters of Love
Four Letters of Love

Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other but how will they ever know it? As ghosts, fate and the...

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The Reckoning of Erin Morrigan
The Reckoning of Erin Morrigan

In a remote safe house on the borderlands of Northern Ireland, ex-IRA volunteer Erin Morrigan is dyi...

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4,000-Year-Old Cold Case: The Body in the Bog
4,000-Year-Old Cold Case: The Body in the Bog

Documentary following the discovery and investigation of a 4,000-year-old body that was preserved in...

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The Ulysses Project
The Ulysses Project

An irreverent, modern, non-traditional re-telling of Ulysses, told rapidly by a succession of over 7...

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Catching Dust
Catching Dust

A criminal husband and his wife hide in a lone trailer. Exhausted by her husbands controlling ways, ...

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Traders
Traders

What if it made perfect sense for ordinary people to kill each other for money? Better than slow gri...

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National Theatre Live: Salomé
National Theatre Live: Salomé

An occupied desert nation. A radical from the wilderness on hunger strike. A girl whose mysterious d...

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The Drummer and the Keeper
The Drummer and the Keeper

The Drummer and the Keeper tells the story of the unlikely friendship formed between two young men: ...

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Beast
Beast

A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her opp...

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Mandy
Mandy

The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-...

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevatin...

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Animals
Animals

Longtime friends and party lovers Laura and Tyler navigate life and love in Dublin, Ireland but find...

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Procession
Procession

A bedraggled community of misfits gather to mourn one of their own the only way they know how - an e...

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Sea Fever
Sea Fever

The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing par...

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Artaud on Aran
Artaud on Aran

This documentary traces the fateful journey of Antonin Artaud across Ireland in 1937 and explores th...

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The Northman
The Northman

Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, w...

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Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic influencers ...

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Violet Gibson, the Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini
Violet Gibson, the Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

The true and forgotten story of Violet Gibson, daughter of the Lord Chancellor to Ireland, who shot ...

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Where is Eva Hipsey?
Where is Eva Hipsey?

Where is Eva Hipsey? is an experimental animated film that blends documentary, fiction and poetry. I...

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The Tide
The Tide

Once the pride of a North Sea trawler fleet, 'The Annie' struggles to survive in a tide of apathy an...

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Zone 414
Zone 414

In the near future on a colony of state-of-the-art robots, a private investigator is hired by the co...

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Space Truckers
Space Truckers

John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to c...

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Take Me Swimming
Take Me Swimming

A son must overcome his own conflicted feelings and honour his father's intentions to keep his mothe...

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Saltwater
Saltwater

An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and he'...

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Banquet
Banquet

A woman's perfect life is shattered by the return of her estranged son, which reawakens a terrifying...

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