Caroline Anne Crowley was born on 23 May 1964 and is an Irish actress, Gaeilgeoir and former radio and television presenter.
17 Facts About Carrie Crowley
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Carrie Crowley has had her own chat show, Limelight, and co-presented the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 with Ronan Keating.
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Carrie Crowley's acting credits include The Clinic, School Run, An Crisis, Fair City.
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Carrie Crowley has appeared as Elisef in the first two seasons of the TV series Vikings.
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Carrie Crowley was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress IFTA award for her performance in An Cailin Ciuin.
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Carrie Crowley was born and raised in Waterford in the south-east of Ireland.
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Carrie Crowley's mother, Nodhlaig, who was from The Rosses in the west of County Donegal in Ulster, was a teacher and her father, Con, who was from Cork, was a garda; she has one sister, Brid.
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Carrie Crowley began her broadcasting career on local radio in her home city of Waterford on WLR FM, and presented several different shows between 1991 and 1996 before moving to RTE.
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Carrie Crowley started out in children's programming, co-presenting the Irish language versions of Echo Island with comedian Dara O Briain, and starring in the pre-school series The Morbegs as the character Liodain.
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In 1997, Carrie Crowley was offered the role as presenter of the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, with Ronan Keating.
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Carrie Crowley appeared before the Eurovision Song Contest in 1998, speaking to Terry Wogan and wishing him and Ulrika Jonsson well before they started presenting the show.
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Carrie Crowley presented Potluck Mondays to Fridays at 5:30, on a Thursday night she had her own health show called Pulse and on Sundays she had her own prime-time chat show called Limelight.
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Carrie Crowley later left television presenting to return to radio presenting, co-presenting Fandango with Ray D'Arcy on RTE Radio 1.
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Carrie Crowley appeared on RTE Radio 1 every Sunday night.
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Carrie Crowley has since distanced herself from her RTE career, describing herself as an "accidental tourist" at the station.
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Carrie Crowley has starred in Irish language short films including An Gaeilgeoir Nocht and has appeared in an episode of the Irish language television series An Crisis.
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Carrie Crowley appeared in the drama series for TG4 called Anseo.