Acting
Michèle Forbes
Place of birth
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Known for
Acting
Credits
9 titles
Michèle Forbes was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and studied English and Psychology at Trinity College, Dublin. She worked as a script reader for the Abbey Theatre and subsequently began acting with the Abbey Theatre Company, touring worldwide with such productions as The Great Hunger and Dancing at Lughnasa . Her film work includes the BAFTA winning Omagh (Paul Greengrass) for which she won Best Actress Monte Carlo and was nominated Best Actress at the Irish Film &Television Awards. Her short stories have won both The Bryan MacMahon and The Michael McLaverty Awards. Her first novel Ghost Moth was shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year Irish Book Awards, the First Book Award Edinburgh …
Known for
7.2Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic.
Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012
6.5A ragtag crew of podcasters sets out to investigate mysterious disappearances from decades earlier in a charming Irish town with dark, dreadful secrets.
Bodkin
2024
7.0Jack Taylor is an Irish television drama based on a series of novels by Ken Bruen. Set in Galway, the series stars Iain Glen in the eponymous role of Jack Taylor, a former officer with the Garda Síochána who becomes a "finder" after leaving the service. Taylor is a man who goes looking for clues where others have not bothered to. He also knows the streets of his hometown like the back of his hand.
Jack Taylor
2010
6.7A Hollywood production rolls into a small Irish town and throws the spotlight on a secret that's been kept hidden since the eve of the Millennium.
Small Town, Big Story
2025
6.0When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the assault of an infant, a psychiatrist is called in to examine Dorothy Mills, the teenager accused of the crime. Despite the villagers' hostility to her inquiry, she soon comes to suspect that Dorothy suffers from multiple personality disorder...
Dorothy Mills
2008
6.7Inspired by the true 2004 Northern Bank robbery, two feuding bank employees are forced to execute Ireland’s biggest heist after criminals kidnap their families and threaten to kill them.
No Ordinary Heist
2026
Film credits
2000s · 3 titles
6.0When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the assault of an infant, a psychiatrist is called in to examine Dorothy Mills, the teenager accused of the crime. Despite the villagers' hostility to her inquiry, she soon comes to suspect that Dorothy suffers from multiple personality disorder...
Dorothy Mills
2008
6.6The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.
Omagh
2005
NRConamara, 1854 - Five years after the Great Famine. After many years abroad in the service of the British Army, a soldier returns home to find that his family are all dead. He visits a neighbour to establish what happened to them.
An Ranger
2008
Series credits
7.2Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic.
Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012
6.5A ragtag crew of podcasters sets out to investigate mysterious disappearances from decades earlier in a charming Irish town with dark, dreadful secrets.
Bodkin
2024
7.0Jack Taylor is an Irish television drama based on a series of novels by Ken Bruen. Set in Galway, the series stars Iain Glen in the eponymous role of Jack Taylor, a former officer with the Garda Síochána who becomes a "finder" after leaving the service. Taylor is a man who goes looking for clues where others have not bothered to. He also knows the streets of his hometown like the back of his hand.
Jack Taylor
2010
6.7A Hollywood production rolls into a small Irish town and throws the spotlight on a secret that's been kept hidden since the eve of the Millennium.
Small Town, Big Story
2025