Orla Brady

Acting

Orla Brady

Born 1961-03-28 · Dublin, Ireland

Orla Brady (born 28 March 1961) is an Irish theatre, television, and film actress born in Dublin.  Brady has since appeared in many feature films and major television series, and was named in the 2020 list of Ireland's best film actors, published by The Irish Times. Description above from the Wikipedia article Orla Brady, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

The Foreigner poster
7.0

Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.

The Foreigner

2017

Freud's Last Session poster
6.6

On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. The film interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.

Freud's Last Session

2023

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise poster
6.9

When Jesse Stone looks into the murder of a teen-age girl whose body is found floating in a local lake, it brings him up against the Boston mob and into the affluent world of a bestselling writer who exploits troubled teens.

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise

2006

The Other Me poster
5.4

The life of a young architect is thrown into turmoil when he's diagnosed with a rare eye disease. As his condition worsens, he questions his life and career choices, and his relationship to his frustrated wife becomes more strained.

The Other Me

2022

The Luzhin Defence poster
6.3

Based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to play in a tournament and falls in love.

The Luzhin Defence

2000

Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor poster
8.1

Orbiting a quiet backwater planet, the massed forces of the universe's deadliest species gather, drawn to a mysterious message that echoes out to the stars. And amongst them, the Doctor. Rescuing Clara from a family Christmas dinner, the Time Lord and his best friend must learn what this enigmatic signal means for his own fate and that of the universe.

Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor

2013

Rose Plays Julie poster
5.8

A story of a young woman searching for her biological mother. Set against a backdrop of misogyny, revenge, and longing, Rose undertakes a journey that leads her to revelations that are both devastating and dangerous.

Rose Plays Julie

2021

Wuthering Heights poster
6.7

Gypsy boy Heathcliffe is adopted by God-fearing landowner Earnshaw in 19th-century northern England and grows up as the soulmate of the daughter, Cathy. However, their romance suffers various tragedies.

Wuthering Heights

1998

Siobhan poster
NR

A short film about love and loss. Do eternal bonds exist beyond the grave or has grief driven a man mad?

Siobhan

2017

Fogbound poster
9.0

Three friends get stuck in fog on the way to a holiday. They tell each other stories and confront each other with hidden secrets.

Fogbound

2002

Black Medicine poster
6.0

Jo is a black-market medic who carries out illegal operations for the criminal underworld. When she gives refuge to a young girl, she must choose between breaking her medical oath or crossing her ruthless employers.

Black Medicine

2021

Last Night poster
6.0

A couple's marriage falls apart under the canopy of a much darker secret.

Last Night

2006

How About You... poster
6.3

A young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.

How About You...

2007

St Pancras Sunrise poster
NR

A young Irish musician arrives in London in 1982 full of optimism and the desire to realise her dreams as an artist. She will have to come up against a reality of violence and oppression, even from the police.

St Pancras Sunrise

2024

The Geography of Violence poster
NR

A culminating triptych/trilogy of three shorts , Siobhan, St Pancras Sunrise Short, The Wolf 30 minutes long exploring violence against women across all landscapes, rural, urban -institutional and the home. And women's responses, though structured around hope, it also dramatizes the epidemic of violence as a omnipresent force not isolated incidents. It also shows tragedy, increasing strength of women and a gripping unbearable tension.

The Geography of Violence

2026

Words Upon the Window Pane poster
9.0

In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel.

Words Upon the Window Pane

1994

The Heart Surgeon poster
6.0

Cardiac surgeon Alex Marsden has an affair with Marcella Duggan, but then finds himself having to operate on her husband Larry, who is also his friend.

The Heart Surgeon

1997

The Price of Desire poster
2.3

Irish architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray (1878–1976) was a leading light in the modern design movement. This graceful portrayal of her later life and work in France focuses on the triangle of tension between Gray, her lover Badovici and Le Corbusier.

The Price of Desire

2015

Wayland's Song poster
6.5

Wayland returns home after being badly injured in the war in Afghanistan, the legacy of his injuries are epileptic seizures. To compound his sense of isolation his daughter has vanished without a trace. He is determined to find her. His investigation uncovers a dark, sinister world where nothing is quite what it seems. His quest becomes not only about finding her but also about discovering who and what he has become. Wayland is looking for something he left behind in the killing fields of Helmand Provence, his humanity and his soul. Waylands Song is an adaptation of the classic Northern European parable. Wayland is crippled by his masters so he can never take flight and escape for which he takes a bloody and violent revenge.

Wayland's Song

2013

A Love Divided poster
6.5

The dramatic true story of a marriage between a Catholic man and a Protestant woman in 1950s Ireland.

A Love Divided

1999

A Girl from Mogadishu poster
5.8

The story of the life and times of Ifrah Ahmed, Somali-Irish campaigner against female genital mutilation and cutting.

A Girl from Mogadishu

2019

Silent Grace poster
6.7

In 1976 the British Government put an end to the special category status of prisoners from the Provisional Irish Republican Army, no longer treating them as prisoners of war, but as common criminals. Mairéad Farrell – on whose life much of the film seems to be loosely based – was the first woman Republican to be refused political status in 1976. By 1980, when the film is set, Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister and doggedly resolute: “There can be no question of political status for someone who is serving a sentence for crime. Crime is crime is crime.” Silent Grace seeks to capture the struggle for the restoration of political status that was at the heart of prison protests in Northern Ireland – not just by the more celebrated male prisoners – but by a smaller number of women prisoners, led by Farrell, at the Armagh Women’s Prison.

Silent Grace

2001

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2.0

A look at the life and work of Los Angeles police officers.

Protect and Serve

2007

The Debt poster
6.7

An ex-robber reluctantly agrees to do one last job in order to protect his family.

The Debt

2003