Acting
Ruth McGill
Place of birth
Glentogher, Donegal, Ireland
Known for
Acting
Credits
6 titles
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…
Known for
7.6The lives of a Dublin family embroiled in a gangland war and the consequences of their choices.
Kin
2021
6.9When 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
NRNuala 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
5.7What 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
NRDesperate 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?
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NRA 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
Film credits
2010s · 3 titles
6.9When 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
NRNuala 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
5.7What 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