Acting

Breige Roche

Place of birth

Dublin, Ireland

Known for

Acting

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7 titles

Breige is a Northern Ireland based actor who studied Drama and Performing Arts at Manchester University. Since turning professional in her mid forties, she has built up an impressive back catalogue of work and has appeared in many TV and film productions including Bloodlands, Game Of Thrones, The Truth Commissioner, Line of Duty and Messiah V “The Rapture”. She was also lead in the award winning Northern Ireland Fire safety advertisement “NEXT”. Before turning her attention to film and television in 2004, Breige was a leading member of the acclaimed amateur drama group, the Lifford Players. During her years with the group she performed in major Irish theatres including the Opera House, the …

Known for

Game of Thrones poster
8.5

Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.

Game of Thrones

2011

Line of Duty poster
8.2

A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.

Line of Duty

2012

Bloodlands poster
6.7

Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance.

Bloodlands

2021

Scúp poster
NR

Set in a struggling Irish language newspaper in Belfast, the series is built around the character of Rob Cullan. a journalist who has left a high flying job in an English newspaper under a cloud. He is persuaded to return to the community he grew up in by the wily newspaper proprietor Diarmuid Black to help rescue his ailing publication.

Scúp

2013

Omagh poster
6.6

The 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

The Truth Commissioner poster
4.5

Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. Eager to make good as a peacemaker, the Prime Minister urges a commission following the South African model of Truth and Reconciliation. But, though Stanfield starts bravely, he quickly uncovers some bloody and inconvenient truths about those now running the country; truths which none of those in power are prepared to have revealed.

The Truth Commissioner

2016

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