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An Irish woman living with her mother in the 1950s decides to make a fresh start in America. She makes her home in New York, and falls in love. However, her past catches up with her when she receives bad news from Ireland, and faces a harsh choice between her two homes. Drama based on Colm Toibin's novel, starring Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters
2015
HD
subtitles
16x9
audio-description
Historical/Period Drama
Literary Adaptation
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Saoirse Ronan
(Actor)
.. Eilis Lacey
Domhnall Gleeson
(Actor)
.. Jim Farrell
Jim Broadbent
(Actor)
.. Father Flood
Julie Walters
(Actor)
.. Mrs Keogh
Emory Cohen
(Actor)
.. Tony
Eileen O'Higgins
(Actor)
.. Nancy
Emily Bett Rickards
(Actor)
.. Patty
Samantha Munro
(Actor)
.. Dorothy
John Crowley
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Saoirse Ronan
(Actor)
.. Eilis Lacey
Born:
April 12, 1994
in
New York
Best Known For:
Atonement, The Lovely Bones and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Early-life:
Saoirse Una Ronan was born in New York on April 12, 1994. She moved to County Carlow, Ireland, when she was three and holds dual Irish-American citizenship. Her father is the actor Paul Ronan and she often accompanied him on sets when he was working. Saoirse made her TV debut in 2003 in RTE medical drama The Clinic.
Career:
Ronan received good reviews for her performance in Atonement (2007), a small-budget film that grossed more than $129million worldwide and earned her an Academy Award nomination. She followed this up with the straight-to-DVD romantic comedy I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007). Since then, she has starred in a number of successful movies, including City of Ember (2008), The Lovely Bones (2009), The Way Back (2010), Hanna (2011), Byzantium (2012) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).
Quote:
'Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.'
Trivia:
Ronan supports the Irish Blue Cross charity.
Domhnall Gleeson
(Actor)
.. Jim Farrell
Jim Broadbent
(Actor)
.. Father Flood
Born:
May 24, 1949
in
Lincoln
Best Known For:
Iris, Moulin Rouge! and Bridget Jones's Diary.
Early-life:
Born May 24, 1949, in Lincoln, the youngest of three children. Father Roy was a furniture maker, who also renovated a Methodist chapel, turning it into a theatre, which was renamed the Broadbent Theatre after his death in 1971. Mother Dee was a sculptress and a keen amateur thespian. Jim attended a Quaker boarding school in Reading and, after passing his A-levels, attended art college. His heart lay in acting and he later transferred to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Career:
Broadbent caught the eye of casting directors following Illuminatus in 1976, a 12-hour sci-fi production. He worked with the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and as the National Theatre of Brent, a two-man comedy troupe he co-founded with Patrick Barlow. Despite originally turning down the role of Del Boy, he played bent copper Roy Slater in Only Fools and Horses. Bigger parts came in the 1990s, in such projects as Life Is Sweet, Bullets Over Broadway, Richard III and Topsy-Turvy. He also starred in Bridget Jones's Diary, Moulin Rouge!, Iris (for which he won an Oscar), Gangs of New York, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and two Harry Potter movies. His recent work includes The Iron Lady, Cloud Atlas, Le Week-End, The Harry Hill Movie, Paddington and Get Santa.
Quote:
'As an actor, I'm quite prepared to look silly. I don't mind looking like a complete berk.'
Trivia:
He reportedly declined an OBE in 2002.
Julie Walters
(Actor)
.. Mrs Keogh
Born:
February 22, 1950
in
Smethwick, Birmingham
Best Known For:
Her work with Victoria Wood.
Early-life:
Born February 22, 1950, in Smethwick, Birmingham, the daughter of an Irish postal worker mother and a decorator father. She has two older brothers. As a child she often performed impromptu shows impersonating Eartha Kitt or Shirley Bassey. She was expelled from school and dreamed of becoming an actress, but her mother persuaded her to take up a 'sensible' career, so she worked as a nurse and in a cigarette factory. She then studied English and Drama at Manchester Polytechnic, where she met Victoria Wood.
Career:
Walters' first acting job was at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre, where she caught the eye of playwright Alan Bleasdale - the beginning of many collaborations. She appeared in his first stage success, Scully, in 1974, and in Boys from the Blackstuff in 1980, a year after making her TV debut in Victoria Wood's Talent. She reunited with Wood in the series Wood and Walters, and reprised her stage role in Educating Rita on the big screen, earning an Oscar nomination. Walters has worked steadily ever since. Her most notable projects include Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV, Pat and Margaret, Mamma Mia! and the Harry Potter films. She was awarded an OBE in 1999, gained a second Oscar nomination for Billy Elliot in 2000, and won a Bafta (her seventh) in 2010 for her performance in TV drama Mo.
Quote:
'I've never had Botox or surgery and I wouldn't because I'd feel I was letting myself down. I've embraced not being young.'
Trivia:
She was awarded the Bafta Fellowship in 2014.
Emory Cohen
(Actor)
.. Tony
Eileen O'Higgins
(Actor)
.. Nancy
Emily Bett Rickards
(Actor)
.. Patty
Samantha Munro
(Actor)
.. Dorothy
John Crowley
(Director)
