Louisa Harland

Acting

Louisa Harland

Born

1993-01-31 (33)

Place of birth

Dundrum, County Dublin, Ireland

Known for

Acting

Credits

16 titles

Louisa Clare Harland is an Irish actress best known for her role as Orla McCool in the Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls and the titular character of the Disney+ series Renegade Nell. Brought up in Dundrum, South Dublin, Harland has two older sisters, Katie and Ellie. She was part of the Ann Kavanagh Youth Theatre in Rathfarnham. She trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London. Upon graduation, Harland landed a recurring role as Kayleigh in season two of the RTÉ One series Love/Hate in 2011. She later appeared in films Rob Burke's Standby (2014) and Woody Harrelson's Lost in London (2017). In 2017, it was announced Harland had been cast as Orla McCool, the eccentric cousin of Er…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

Series credits

Love/Hate poster
7.5

Modern-day underworld characters Nidge and John Boy wrestle for control of Dublin's illicit drug trade in this forceful crime drama.

Love/Hate

2010

Derry Girls poster
8.1

Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.

Derry Girls

2018

Renegade Nell poster
7.3

England, 1705: Framed for murder and on the run with her sisters, Nell Jackson turns her hand to highway robbery to survive. Aided by her superpowered sidekick, a plucky little sprite called Billy Blind, Nell realizes that fate has put her on the wrong side of the law for a reason. A reason much bigger than she could have ever imagined: to defeat a magical plot against the Queen of England.

Renegade Nell

2024

The Walsh Sisters poster
5.5

Set in their Dublin hometown, Anna, Rachel, Maggie, Claire and Helen navigate the peaks and troughs of their late 20s and 30s. This is a sisterhood full of in-jokes, hand-me-down resentments and more than a few old wounds. But their DNA, history and shared love of power ballads keep the Walsh sisters together in the face of heartbreak, grief, addiction and parenthood.

The Walsh Sisters

2025

MaeBee poster
NR

Join Mae, a small but mighty gnome, and her foster brother Bee as they embark on magic-filled, fantasy-comedy adventures to fill a page of Mae’s Book of Big!

MaeBee

2026

No artwork available
NR

Police stumble upon a bank robbery mid-heist, and the criminals barricade themselves inside. A hostage negotiator battles time and mounting pressure to save the hostages during a tense siege.

The Day

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