18 Facts About Orla Brady

Orla Brady was born on 28 March 1961 and is an Irish theatre, television, and film actress born in Dublin.

Orla Brady lived in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland, from birth until the age of seven.

Orla Brady was educated at a convent of the Ursulines in Cabinteely, Dublin.

Orla Brady began training in performance in 1986, with a year in Paris; she studied at, and secured a place at Marcel Marceau's.

Orla Brady began appearing regularly in television roles in the 1990's.

Orla Brady began her career touring with Balloonatics Theatre Company, in productions of Hamlet and Finnegans Wake.

Orla Brady performed as Ghislane in Stephen Poliakoff's Blinded by the Sun, staged at the Royal National Theatre in England in 1996.

Since moving to California in 2001, Orla Brady has appeared in Family Law, where she played Naoise O'Niell, a series that ran for 3 years on CBS.

Orla Brady appeared as Meredith Gates, a fleecing art collector who herself is conned in the first series of the British series Hustle.

Orla Brady appeared in a special production in the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, the 25 December 2013 Christmas special, The Time of the Doctor.

In 2015, Orla Brady appeared as architect Eileen Gray in Irish director Mary McGuckian's The Price of Desire, which was in festivals in 2016.

Orla Brady had a recurring role in a season of the American Horror Story franchise, portraying Dr Hopple in American Horror Story: 1984, the ninth season of the FX horror anthology television series.

Orla Brady won the 1999 award for Best Actress at the Monte Carlo International Film and Television Festival for her starring role as Sheila Cloney in the RTE-BBC co-production, A Love Divided.

In 2020, Orla Brady was listed as number 43 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's 50 best film actors.

Orla Brady was nominated several times for best actress by the Irish Film and Television Academy.

Vettriano, his agent, and Orla Brady herself, have all stated that his work makes use of the image in a way that adheres to norms of artistic practice and was in line with the publisher's intent.

In 2001, Orla Brady moved to Los Angeles, where she met English photographer Nick Brandt, whom she married in December 2002 in the Chyulu Hills of Kenya.

Orla Brady has discussed in interviews that she originally left Ireland as she found it "a repressive place to be a woman" at the time, with little opportunity.