
Acting
Nessa Matthews
Ardee, Ireland
Nessa Matthews is an actor, writer and director for stage and screen. Since graduating with a distinction from LAMDA, she has worked regularly across film and theatre; from international screen work like BBC/Netflix's The Tourist to indie films like Dawn of the Ick, Gap, Hen, Sineater and in theatres across the UK and Ireland. She has been described as “an actor of considerable talent” with “presence and emotional truth.”
Acting credits
NRAfter years spent filtering the internet's darkest material, a content moderator spirals into psychological disintegration as the horrors they absorb begin infecting their reality.
Sin Eater
2026
NRHaunted by his father’s accidental death thirty years ago, Stephen leads a masked kidnapper to his childhood home instead of just talking to his wife.
GAP
2025
NRAn activist thinks she's immune to a mysterious syndrome afflicting local women, until her fiancé moves in.
Dawn of the Ick
2025
6.0A tricky case for Inspector Jury and his (ex-)aristocratic friend Melrose Plant: In Rackmoor, a picturesque Yorkshire harbor town, a woman dressed as a harlequin is murdered. The dead woman is said to be Dillys March, the adopted daughter of the extremely wealthy Colonel Titus Crael, who disappeared 20 years ago and has now unexpectedly returned. His son Julian Crael, however, believes she is an imposter. In his opinion, the woman pretended to be Dillys in order to gain access to Colonel Titus's fortune. Did Julian perhaps kill her?
Inspektor Jury - Der Tod des Harlekins
2018
NRFive woman spend a night together at a secluded house, to celebrate the future nuptials of the bride to be. During the course of the night, alliances are formed, confrontations erupt and festivities become tense and the women quickly learn that every sacrifice has a cost. The darkness of their terrible act fractures those responsible, trapping them in a perpetual loop oscillating endlessly between hope and despair.
Hen
2019