1. Valene Kane has since appeared in the BBC dramas Blue Lights and Thirteen, the Stan series The Other Guy, the Sky Atlantic series Gangs of London and the ITVX series The Winter King.
10 Facts About Valene Kane
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Valene Kane's films include The Fading Light, Nowhere Special, Rogue One and Profile.
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Valene Kane is the daughter of former Gaelic footballer and coach Val Kane.
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Valene Kane left Northern Ireland for London at 18 and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
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Valene Kane was chosen partly for her successful experience with improvisation in the short film.
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Valene Kane played Girleen in Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West, in which one reviewer said: "Kane gives Girleen a schoolgirl reality, her confident swagger and challenge covering the only genuine feelings for anyone else that the play possesses".
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In 2018, Valene Kane played journalist Amy Whittaker who investigates the recruitment of young European women by ISIS in the 2018 thriller film Profile by Timur Bekmambetov.
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Valene Kane could be heard on the Monobox Speech Share podcast reading from Marina Carr's "Portia Coughlan".
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In 2023, Kane starred as Lady Macbeth in a "subtly mercurial performance" on the Royal Shakespeare Company main stage in Stratford, England in a production that was "saved by its dark atmosphere and Valene Kane's turn as Lady Macbeth" She played Morgan le Fay, King Arthur's half-sister in The Winter King, which premiered on MGM+ in the United States and on ITVX in the UK.
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Valene Kane recently won 'Best Actress in a Lead Role' at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival 2019 for her performance as "a mother [who] refuses to bend to society's mores even in the face of unspeakable tragedy" in First Person: A Film About Love.