1. Eva Birthistle was born on 16 April 1974 and is an Irish actress and writer.
15 Facts About Eva Birthistle
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Eva Birthistle is best known for her roles in Bad Sisters and Ae Fond Kiss.
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Eva Birthistle won the London Film Critics Circle British or Irish Actress of the Year Award in 2004, and has twice won the IFTA Best Actress in a Leading Role award.
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Eva Birthistle was raised Catholic but attended the non-denominational Foyle College.
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Eva Birthistle was offered her first feature film in 1997, All Souls' Day by Alan Gilsenan.
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Eva Birthistle played a variety of roles in Irish films, including Drinking Crude, co-starring Colin Farrell, and TV movie Miracle at Midnight, with Mia Farrow.
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In 2002, Eva Birthistle appeared in Sunday, a dramatisation of the events of Bloody Sunday written by Jimmy McGovern.
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Eva Birthistle starred as human rights lawyer Jane Lavery in the TV conspiracy drama The State Within, and played Rosaleen in the Taken at the Flood episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot in 2006.
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Eva Birthistle featured in the BBC drama The Last Enemy in early 2008, playing the role of Eleanor Brooke, a junior minister.
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Eva Birthistle appeared in two successful horror films The Children and Wake Wood.
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Eva Birthistle played "Annette Nicholls" in the 2010 three-part TV series Five Daughters.
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Eva Birthistle appeared as Detective Superintendent Sarah Cavendish in the ninth, and final, series of Waking the Dead.
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In 2011, Eva Birthistle appeared in the Sky1 TV series Strike Back: Project Dawn as Captain Kate Marshall.
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In 2013, Eva Birthistle co-starred with Anna Friel in the Sky1 TV production The Psychopath Next Door.
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Eva Birthistle appeared in the 2017 Irish film The Delinquent Season opposite Cillian Murphy.