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Ger Ryan

Biography:

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ger Ryan is an Irish film and television actress, whose credits include Queer as Folk, The War of the Buttons, The Van, Moll Flanders, Driftwood, A Love Divided and Intermission.

Ryan has worked extensively in theatre, television and film. She has been twice nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for Family and Amongst Women, and three times nominated by IFTA for Amongst Women, Intermission and The Return. She is also a recipient of a Belfast Telegraph EMA Award in for her work on A Place with the Pigs and Song of the Yellow Bittern. In 2007, she received an IFTA for her work on the two-part docu-drama, Stardust, by RTÉ. She also played Margie McEvoy in all three series of the award-winning BBC drama series, The Street, with Timothy Spall. Most recently, she has played the role of Maeve Harte in RTÉ's popular drama series, Raw.

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Known For

Acting

2021

2020

Rialto as Kathleen

2018

Little Dog as Sylvia Ross

2017

2014

Love, Rosie as Alice Dunne

2013

Hummingbird as Mother Superior
The Callback Queen as Mary Carroll

2008

Dorothy Mills as Eileen McMahon
Raw as Maeve Harte

2007

Exodus as Batya
Damage as Liz Maher

2006

Stardust as Christine Keegan
The Street as Margie McEvoy

2005

Frozen as Elsie

2003

The Return as Maggie
Intermission as Maura

2002

Sinners as Niamh
No Tears as Siobhan Cassidy

2000

Forgive and Forget as Ruth O'Neil

1999

Queer as Folk as Margaret Jones
Oliver Twist as Mrs. Sowerberry

1998

1997

Plotlands as Grainne Mulligan

1996

The Van as Maggie
Moll Flanders as Orphanage Woman

1994

War of the Buttons as Fergus' Mum
Family as Paula Spencer
Family as Paula Spencer

1991

The Commitments as Pawnbroker

1988

The Courier as Assistant in Jewellers