Acting

Bronágh Taggart

Born 1981-06-09 · Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Bronágh Taggart is a Northern Irish actress and writer, born in Belfast. She has appeared in BAFTA-winning Occupation, Best: His Mother's Son, and The Fall and has written for BBC Northern Ireland series 6Degrees since it first aired in 2012. In 2013, she wrote a half-hour film, Call it a Night, for broadcast on Channel 4 as part of the late-night Coming Up series. In 2017, Taggart wrote, produced and starred in Guard, a female-led boxing film directed by Jonathan Harden. It had its debut at the Oscar-qualifying Galway Film Fleadh in July 2017, and soon after its North American premiere at the Oscar and BAFTA-qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival. She has been married to actor Jonathan Harden, since 2008.

Acting credits

Mickybo and Me poster
7.1

The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.

Mickybo and Me

2005

Red Mist poster
4.9

A young doctor in a US hospital administers a powerful and untested cocktail of drugs to a coma victim. But instead of curing him, it triggers a powerful "out-of-body" experience and enables the patient - a depraved and dangerous loner - to inhabit other people's bodies and, through them, take revenge on the bullying medical students who were accidentally responsible for his condition.

Red Mist

2008

Best: His Mother's Son poster
5.0

Best – His Mother’s Son (BBC Two) was a gloomy drama about Ann Best, mother of George, who was strictly teetotal until her mid-40s, when she had her first sip of sherry to celebrate her son’s footballing success. Ten years later, she was dead from alcoholism-related heart disease. The recreation of late-Sixties Belfast was accurate and, thank goodness, intelligently subdued: no comedy Ulster accents and no point-scoring subplot about the Troubles.

Best: His Mother's Son

2009

Occupation poster
7.8

Three ex-servicemen return to Basra, each for a different reason.

Occupation

2009

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NR

When Larry is officially named the Happiest Man in the World, he has no idea the effect that fame will have on his love life.

Happy as Larry

2008

The Back of Beyond poster
NR

Petesy feels trapped in his dead-end job until smart-talking Gabriel arrives and offers him a way out.

The Back of Beyond

2012

The Ash: Safe Haven poster
7.7

A deadly volcanic ash cloud. A 12 year old boy besieged by the bloodthirsty infected. When the ash falls terror rises.

The Ash: Safe Haven

2019

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NR

Dave is trapped in a bar after hours. It's stocked with memories and people from his past. Between attempts to escape all he can do is interact with people that he sort of knows and deal with a variety of weirdness as it presents itself.

Back In Five

2021

The Ash: Safe Haven poster
5.0

When a volcanic ash cloud engulfs Belfast City 12-year-old Zoran finds himself trapped at home with his elderly neighbor. But this ash cloud is like no other – it carries a virulent contagion that transforms those exposed into feral, black-oozing monstrosities. With the outside world fast descending into chaos and his neighbor beginning to succumb to the virus, Zoran will soon discover that when the ash descends there are no safe havens.

The Ash: Safe Haven

2017