Acting

Ruth McGill

Glentogher, Donegal, Ireland

Ruth McGill is an actress, singer, and singing coach from Done­gal. She grad­u­ated with a BA in Act­ing Stud­ies from the Samuel Beck­ett Cen­tre, Trin­ity Col­lege Dublin. She is cur­rently star­ring in The Bor­row­ers at the Gate Theatre. She also recently played the role of Kate there, in the Gate’s crit­i­cally acclaimed pro­duc­tion of Danc­ing at Lugh­nasa, directed by Car­o­line Byrne. Her the­atre cred­its include per­for­mances in Fur­ni­ture (Druid The­atre Com­pany); Assas­sins, The Con­stant Wife, Romeo and Juliet, The Three­penny Opera, and Sweeney Todd (Gate The­atre); Let the Right One In, Jimmy’s Hall, Anna Karen­ina, Done­gal, Twelfth Night, Alice in Fun­der­land, Christ Deliver Us!, The Last Days of a Reluc­tant Tyrant, The Cherry Orchard (The Abbey The­atre); Dublin­ers, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, FREEFALL (Corn Exchange The­atre Com­pany); The Dead Opera (Per­for­mance Cor­po­ra­tion); The Requiem for The Truth (Col­laps­ing Horse The­atre Com­pany); Stoker (Ouroboros); Macbecks (Olympia The­atre); All in The Tim­ing (Inis The­atre); Every­body Loves Sylvia, Drowned World, and The Illu­sion (Ran­dolf SD). She was twice nom­i­nated for The Irish Times The­atre Award for Best Sup­port­ing Actress for her per­for­mances in The Three­penny Opera and FREEFALL. Ruth’s film and tele­vi­sion cred­its include At Sea, KIN, Dead Happy, Nowhere Fast, Mis­cal­cu­la­tion, Jack Tay­lor, Damo and Ivor, Won­der House, What Richard Did, Love/​Hate II, Leap Year and The Clinic.

Acting credits

Leap Year poster
6.9

When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.

Leap Year

2010

What Richard Did poster
5.7

What Richard Did is a striking portrait of the fall of a Dublin golden-boy and high school rugby star whose world unravels one summer night.

What Richard Did

2012

Miscalculation poster
NR

Nuala Ni Bhraonáin, electronics whiz, is a stylish woman about town in Dublin of 1981. She's invented the 'Reilly 9000', the world's first calculator with a square root function. Donnchadh is her flatmate and an egomaniacal Gaeilgóir poet with an unfortunate penchant for plagiarism -- and Rita, one of Nuala's workmates, makes the mistake of getting between Donnchadh and the top prize in Slógadh.

Miscalculation

2014

Can You Hear Me? poster
NR

Desperate to escape a family tragedy, Marie seeks refuge in a new home. One night, she overhears violent cries through the wall to her neighbor's house. As she investigates, Marie invites a terrifying, familiar presence into her new world.

Can You Hear Me?

At Sea poster
NR

A hypnotic, hallucinatory reverie at the edge of liminal space. It is a visceral human experience, a rupture, a rhapsody of sound and image, moving beyond the sensory, to be carried deep in the body.

At Sea

2024