Aoibhéann McCann

Acting

Aoibhéann McCann

Born 1990-07-28

Aoibhéann McCann is an Irish actress, based between Dublin, Belfast and London. She trained at The Oxford School of Drama, after achieving an honors degree in French & Sociology from Maynooth University. She works extensively in screen and theatre, recently winning the Best Actress Award in the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2020 for her role as Blanche Dubois in "A Streetcar Named Desire".

Acting credits

Gustav poster
NR

A man wakes up with a strange tune in his head. But what is it? And how did it get there?

Gustav

2017

Yield poster
NR

Eve and her father are tasked with removing a dead sheep from a neighbouring farmer's land.

Yield

The Break poster
7.3

Since 2008 the recession has been the biggest story in Ireland. Nobody has gone untouched by the catastrophic collapse of house prices, the banking system and the Celtic Tiger feelgood factor. The Break is a story about how Tim, a father of two, tried to cope for the first few months after everything went wrong.

The Break

2015

No artwork available
5.0

A dark romantic comedy about a young couple from London. A decision to walk home one night, rather than taking a taxi, brings out the very different secrets that they have been keeping from one another.

Long Walk Home

2012

Dragon's Teeth poster
NR

A hauntological exploration of Northern Ireland’s landscapes and the remnants of its occupied past, blending together eerie archive footage and voyeuristic location shooting as a ghostly figure lingers through the shadows of a long-abandoned military fort.

Dragon's Teeth

2024

The Last Harvest poster
NR

Ireland 2112, climate change has drastically changed the Earth, and Ireland, now an archipelago, is a lifeboat nation to many; an uncertain future where social structures have disappeared. Helen, one of the only two adults in a community of young people and children, wakes one morning to discover an invasive species has infected their wheat crop. She must do everything she can for the children to survive.

The Last Harvest

2024

No artwork available
NR

Celebrated as one of the masters of the short story, Frank O'Connor was also an important translator of classical Irish poetry. Cork poet and writer Liam O'Muirthile tells O'Connor's forgotten story. He argues you cannot understand O'Connor's voice in English without understanding his natural writing voice, which is rooted in Irish.

Frank O'Connor: Between Two Streams

2016

Behind the camera