Acting
Jamie Lee O'Donnell
Born
1987-03-04 (39)
Place of birth
Derry, Northern Ireland, UK
Known for
Acting
Credits
21 titles
Jamie-Lee O'Donnell is an actress known for her role as Michelle Mallon in Channel 4’s comedy series, Derry Girls. O’Donnell was born on 4 March 1987 in Derry, Northern Ireland. She attended St Anne's Primary School, St Cecilia's College, and North West Regional College. She began acting at a young age in school plays. Upon graduation, she decided to pursue it professionally despite not being able to afford drama school. She instead studied performing arts at the De Montfort University campus in Bedfordshire, but did not complete the course. She began auditioning and dividing her time between England and home, taking part in theatrical productions and working as a dancer for promotions and…
Known for
7.1RuPaul has made the trip across the pond in search of a queen with the most charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent in all the land.
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
2019
6.1Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games.
House of Games
2017
8.1Amidst 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
7.8A young couple's relationship clashes with the harsh realities of the California Gold Rush of 1850. Angel, experiencing love for the first time and facing demons unsurmountable, runs from the new life she doesn't believe she deserves. When Michael sets out to find her, Angel discovers that she indeed has the power to choose the life she wants.
Redeeming Love
2022
6.0Romesh Ranganathan takes charge of the back-stabbing big money game show. Can the contestants create a chain of answers and avoid the boot?
The Weakest Link
2021
7.9The iconic pop culture panel show featuring host Greg Davies, who is joined by regulars Noel Fielding & Jamali Maddix for music-themed mayhem.
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
2021
Film credits
2020s · 6 titles
7.8A young couple's relationship clashes with the harsh realities of the California Gold Rush of 1850. Angel, experiencing love for the first time and facing demons unsurmountable, runs from the new life she doesn't believe she deserves. When Michael sets out to find her, Angel discovers that she indeed has the power to choose the life she wants.
Redeeming Love
2022
5.8Londoners Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent, murderous goblins lurking in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden. When heavily pregnant Maya’s relationship with a local family turns sour, who – or what – will come to her rescue and to what extremes will she go to protect her unborn child?
Unwelcome
2023
8.01994. As Northern Ireland takes its first steps towards peace, best friends Vinny and Jonty are about to jump start their futures with the most reckless trip of their lives.
Skintown
2026
5.0Hope has a life-changing piano audition coming up — nerve-wracking at the best of times. Unfortunately, as a sufferer of social anxiety, it's going to take extraordinary courage to seek the help needed to pursue her dream.
The Fruit Fix
2020
NRA pop diva, kicked out of her own group's reunion tour and slapped with a community service court order, seizes the chance to stage a comeback by coaching a group of misfit teen girls for a major record label audition, only to push them too far, forcing her to confront her toxic industry — and her own streak of self-destruction.
Girl Group
2026
NRWith warmth, wit and honesty, Derry Girls' Jamie-Lee O'Donnell reflects on her childhood experiences and discovers what life's like for young people growing up in Derry today.
The Real Derry: Jamie-Lee O'Donnell
2022
2010s · 4 titles
5.0A young Romanian woman is snatched in broad daylight from a London street, trafficked to Ireland and used as a sex slave in a series of pop-up brothels. Her shocking true story offers a tense and thought-provoking thriller exposing how, in modern Britain, slavery can hide in plain sight.
Doing Money
2019
NRWith 1 in 3 women having had an abortion "I told my Mum I was going on an R.E. trip…" explores what seems to be one of society's last taboos using verbatim voices, music, beats and rhyme.
I Told My Mum I Was Going On An RE Trip
2018
7.5A hard living, disillusioned, ex social worker becomes the unlikely savior to an anarchic gang of joy-riding, drug taking, thieving, out of control, care home runaway kids.
I Am Urban
2018
2.0After traveling to the UK for an abortion, three Irish women spend the night together in London.
A Secret Journey
2019
Series credits
7.1RuPaul has made the trip across the pond in search of a queen with the most charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent in all the land.
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
2019
6.1Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games.
House of Games
2017
8.1Amidst 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
6.0Romesh Ranganathan takes charge of the back-stabbing big money game show. Can the contestants create a chain of answers and avoid the boot?
The Weakest Link
2021
7.9The iconic pop culture panel show featuring host Greg Davies, who is joined by regulars Noel Fielding & Jamali Maddix for music-themed mayhem.
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
2021
7.4Celebrities drive on some of the most dangerous roads around the world, tackling impossible conditions to reach their goals.
World's Most Dangerous Roads
2011
4.8Neighbours on an idyllic suburban street have a falling-out over one family's plan to build an extension to their house.
The Feud
2025
6.5Rob Williams' darkly comic crime drama portrays prison as you've never seen it before: through the embattled and inspiring characters who work there.
Screw
2022
6.9Follow two unique board-gaming friends meandering through leafy suburban life, charting a story about Judo, ancient Rome, first loves, and the expansion of the Universe.
Leonard and Hungry Paul
2025
NRDo you know your Victoria Beckham from your Victoria Sponge? Alan Carr's stupendous shout-along quiz, where a picture's worth a thousand words – and thousands of pounds.
Alan Carr's Picture Slam
2023
NRSix young people striving for answers as they move from youth to adulthood.
6Degrees
2012