Brid Brennan

Acting

Brid Brennan

Born 1955-01-01 · Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Bríd Brennan is a Belfast born actress known for her work on the stage and screen.

Acting credits

Florence Foster Jenkins poster
6.7

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

Florence Foster Jenkins

2016

Excalibur poster
7.0

Arthur fulfills his fate by bringing together the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot and unifying the country. However, this flawed monarch faces greater tests ahead in pursuit of love, the Holy Grail, and his nation's survival.

Excalibur

1981

Brooklyn poster
7.3

In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.

Brooklyn

2015

Topsy-Turvy poster
6.6

For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, their latest work, "Princess Ida", receives lukewarm press. In an effort to reconcile their creative differences and drawing inspiration from Japanese culture, they went on to create the hit opera "The Mikado", one of the duo's greatest successes.

Topsy-Turvy

1999

Shadow Dancer poster
6.0

In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.

Shadow Dancer

2012

A Talent for Murder poster
NR

A young man travels from New York to Switzerland to try to persuade acclaimed thriller writer Patricia Highsmith to write one final installment of her Tom Ripley series, with his efforts gradually turning more sinister.

A Talent for Murder

2026

Calm with Horses poster
6.3

In darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Douglas 'Arm' Armstrong has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family, whilst also trying to be a good father to his autistic five-year-old son, Jack. Torn between these two families, Arm's loyalties are truly tested when he is asked to kill for the first time.

Calm with Horses

2020

My Sailor, My Love poster
6.3

The thorny relationship between a woman and her retired father worsens after he becomes romantically involved with the housekeeper she hires for him.

My Sailor, My Love

2022

Lorna poster
9.0

In the follow-up to Graham Reid’s trilogy of ‘Billy’ plays, Billy's sister Lorna Martin is left to care for their Uncle Andy. Lorna feels trapped, but Andy wishes to give her the freedom she desires.

Lorna

1987

The Galley poster
NR

After being made redundant from her job at the coastal arcades, Helen commits a victimless crime to pay for dinner.

The Galley

Aontas poster
7.0

Three unlikely women rob a rural Irish Credit Union. A backwards chronology unravels what went wrong.

Aontas

2026

Lost Lives poster
6.0

This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Lost Lives

2019

Stalker poster
NR

In the remote Scottish Highlands an aging stalker sets his wits and grit against a poacher who is taking the heads of his best stags.

Stalker

2019

Room Taken poster
6.9

When a man, new to Ireland, experiences homelessness and needs a place to sleep, he secretly takes up residence in the home of an elderly blind woman, which leads to them forming a unique bond.

Room Taken

2023

Guinevere poster
3.3

As border wars break out in Camelot, the young princess Guinevere is taken to live in safety with the High Priestess L'Fei. When King Arthur claims the crown, Guinevere is promised to him and she must leave her true love, Prince Lancelot in order to unite the land. In a tale of honor, loyalty and the price of war, Guinevere is forced to choose between the only man she has ever loved and her duty to her kingdom.

Guinevere

1994

'Itch poster
NR

A lone hitch hiker, marooned near a housing estate, has a dramatic effect on the lives of those around him.

'Itch

1991

Dancing at Lughnasa poster
6.0

Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.

Dancing at Lughnasa

1998

Up Line poster
NR

Three alternative comedians get involved in a pyramid-selling organization, Pathway, in order to finance their act. They gain great success by deploying their skills as entertainers, only to eventually discover the sinister purpose behind the Pathway organization.

Up Line

1987

Ghostwatch poster
7.0

For Halloween 1992, the BBC decides to broadcast an investigation into the supernatural, hosted by TV chat-show legend Michael Parkinson. Parky (assisted by Mike Smith, Sarah Greene & Craig Charles) and a camera crew attempt to discover the truth behind the most haunted house in Britain. This ground-breaking live television experiment does not go as planned, however.

Ghostwatch

1992

Felicia's Journey poster
6.3

Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks an unsettling secret.

Felicia's Journey

1999

Henry V - Live at Shakespeare's Globe poster
7.0

Shakespeare’s masterpiece of the turbulence of war and the arts of peace tells the romantic story of Henry’s campaign to recapture the English possessions in France. But the ambitions of this charismatic king are challenged by a host of vivid characters caught up in the real horrors of war. Henry V, which opened the new Globe with the words ‘O for a muse of fire’, celebrates the power of language to summon into life courts, pubs, ships and battlefields within the ‘wooden O’ - and beyond.

Henry V - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

2012

Phoenix poster
NR

Anton is about to lose the two most important women in his life but it takes the story of the king's son to make him face his fate.

Phoenix

2020

She's Been Away poster
5.7

A woman who has been institutionalized for 60 years for the "crime" of not conforming to the 1920s image of what a proper young woman should be (in other words, she did what she wanted and didn't care what anyone else thought about it) is finally released to the custody of her family, consisting of her grand-nephew and his family. At first she keeps a self-imposed distance from the relatives, but she soon finds herself coming around to her nephew's wife, a free spirit who is under the thumb of her cold and controlling husband.

She's Been Away

1989

Who Bombed Birmingham? poster
8.5

Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks

Who Bombed Birmingham?

1990