Deirdre O'Kane is an Irish stand-up comedian and actress.
12 Facts About Deirdre O'Kane
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Originally from Drogheda, County Louth, O'Kane is married to writer and director Stephen Bradley; they have two children.
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Deirdre O'Kane attended Loreto High School Beaufort, an all-girls Catholic boarding school in Rathfarnham, Dublin.
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Deirdre O'Kane became a stand-up comic in 1996 and got into the finals of the BBC New Comedy Awards of that year.
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Deirdre O'Kane has played at the Edinburgh Festival every year since including 2001 where she not only performed her own solo show, Deirdre O'Kane is Crystallized, but the two-hander Tis Pity She's Anonymous.
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Deirdre O'Kane has played The Melbourne, Adelaide and Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festivals and has toured the Middle East, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Prague, Brussels and London.
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Deirdre O'Kane began her career as an actress and has played every major theatre in Ireland as well as touring in Australia, Canada and the UK.
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Deirdre O'Kane portrayed the role of Noeleen in the 2003 motion picture Intermission, directed by John Crowley.
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Deirdre O'Kane played the lead role in the 2014 biopic Noble as Christina Noble, a children's rights campaigner, charity worker and writer, who founded the Christina Noble Children's Foundation in 1989.
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Deirdre O'Kane played the role of Fiona in Owen O'Neill's sit-com The Fitz.
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Deirdre O'Kane is one of the narrators of the Irish version of Gogglebox, alongside Rory Cowan, which started in 2016 on TV3.
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In October 2021, The Deirdre O'Kane Show launched on Sky Max.