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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Place of Birth

Dublin, Ireland

Karen Ardiff

Biography:

Karen Ardiff is an Irish actor and writer. Ardiff was born in Dublin and attended Trinity College, Dublin's Samuel Beckett Centre. She has worked as an actress on stage and television as well as in Evelyn and Brooklyn. She has written, In Skagway, her first play, which was produced by Guna Nua Theatre company and won the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Best New Play Award as well as the Stewart Parker/BBC Northern Ireland Award. Her first novel The Secret of my Face came out in 2007.

Known For

Acting

2024

Bodkin as Shirley

2020

Mya Go as Mama Go (voice)

2019

Wastewater as Catherine

2017

The Bookshop as Mrs. Deben

2015

Brooklyn as Mrs. Farrell

2014

Noble as Chipper Waitress

2013

A Terrible Beauty as Sarah Hughes

2002

Sinners as Nuala
Evelyn as Sister Felicity

1999

This Is My Father as Young Mrs. Kearney