Aisling O'Sullivan

Acting

Aisling O'Sullivan

Born 1968-01-01 · Ireland

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Aisling O'Sullivan (born 1968 in Tralee, County Kerry) is an award-winning Irish actress who starred in the movie The Butcher Boy as Francie's mentally unstable mother. O'Sullivan previously appeared briefly in another Neil Jordan film, Michael Collins. She had a part as the grieving mother who commits suicide in Six Shooter, playwright Martin McDonagh's Oscar-winning short film. She is familiar to Irish television audiences as Dr. Cathy Costello from Series 1 to Series 5 in the hugely popular drama series The Clinic, a role for which she has won an IFTA best actress award IN 2008. She garnered major acclaim for her performance as Widow Quin in Druid Theatre Company's 2004 production of The Playboy of the Western World, which toured throughout Ireland including her native Kerry, and also starred Cillian Murphy and Anne-Marie Duff. She also had a leading role in the Channel 4 thriller Shockers (1999). She is currently starring in Raw, an RTÉ drama based on a restaurant playing Restaurant Manager Fiona Kelly, in its second season. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aisling O'Sullivan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Acting credits

The War Zone poster
6.8

An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.

The War Zone

1999

Michael Collins poster
6.9

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.

Michael Collins

1996

Joyride poster
5.8

12-year-old Mully has lost his mother and discovers his debt-ridden father stealing the charity money they've raised in her name. Grabbing the cash, Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy, in the back seat with a baby. A straight-talking solicitor who didn't expect to get pregnant, Joy is struggling with motherhood and planning to give her baby to a friend who will raise the child as her own. She joins Mully on a wild journey across Ireland, stealing cars, hitch-hiking, catching ferries and breaking police barricades.

Joyride

2022

The Butcher Boy poster
6.8

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.

The Butcher Boy

1998

First Date poster
3.7

Tina, a recently widowed farmer, doesn't want her daughter to move back to the city and leave her alone. When Seamus arrives on the farm talking about a date, she decides to intervene.

First Date

2022

The One and Only poster
5.2

When Stevie meets Neil on the day he comes to deliver her brand new kitchen, it's already too late for love at first sight. Too late for both of them. Stevie is already five minutes pregnant by her Italian footballer husband. And too late for Neil too - his wife Jenny has already applied to adopt an African girl. But too late or otherwise, love at first sight is exactly what happens. How can Neil and Stevie get out of their mistaken marriages and into each others arms?

The One and Only

2002

Six Shooter poster
7.2

Overwhelmed by grief following the death of his wife, Donnelly shares a train carriage home with a troubled young man identified only as the 'Kid'. As the Kid becomes more agitated and foul-mouthed, the journey takes on a violent and dangerous hue – for the bereaved Donnelly and for other hapless passengers on the train. Academy Award Winner: Best Live Action Short Film – 2005

Six Shooter

2004

The Actors poster
5.6

During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his character. He meets Barreller who he discovers owes someone he's never met a considerable sum of money. Seeing an opportunity to make some fast money, O'Malley convinces hapless extra, Tom, to meet Barreller as the debt collector.

The Actors

2003

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7.0

A film about friendship and familiarity masking major secrets. When protagonists Beth and Ross gather all of their best friends together for an unruly drink and drug-fuelled party, the event is like many such evenings. That is, until Beth and Ross make an announcement. They tell those assembled that they have secretly married. The impact is not as simple as they had expected. We then track the events of the evening as the news affects each person in turn. Instead of the absolute approval Ross and Beth had hoped for, the news throws a harsh spotlight on everyone's relationship and notions of marriage. The film explores the confused attitudes of a generation whose model of love and romance is complex and demanding. The evening degenerates into a rash of revelations and discoveries about all of the friends, but most dramatically it unravels Ross and Beth's relationship in a way neither of them could have foreseen. This is no fairytale

The Announcement

2000

Parent's Night poster
6.3

When a new pupil arrives at a comprehensive school, he decides to take his video camera to film the bullies at work.

Parent's Night

2001

A Film with Me in It poster
6.1

A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental deaths in their flat. Though the men didn't deliberately cause any of the incidents, they fear that they will be unfairly pegged as murderers if they relay information to the cops, and promptly set about disposing of the corpses in gruesome ways.

A Film with Me in It

2008

The American poster
5.4

After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to France is search of cultural treasures. He won't get past the Paris nightlife. After an affair with a haughty painter, he falls in love with the daughter of the late marquis de Bellegarde. She was married off and traumatized by her abusive late husband for the family's sake. Her elder brother supports their ruthless mother, but junior Valentin is besotted with the artist and strikes a partnership with Christopher.

The American

1998

Me & Mrs. Jones poster
8.0

A top tabloid journalist poses as a political fundraiser to get dirt on the prime minister, but things take a turn when the two begin to fall for one another.

Me & Mrs. Jones

2003

The Wyvern Mystery poster
5.2

After precipitating the death of a tenant with whom he has been feuding, Squire Fairfield brings the dead man's young daughter to live in Wyvern Manor. Alice grows up thinking the squire is her kind benefactor, and falls in love with one of his two sons.

The Wyvern Mystery

2000

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NR

Two ballet dancers spar over a game of snooker as they wait backstage for their turn in local charity event.

The Chalk Up

2004

I Can't Go On poster
NR

A party entertainer must go to extraordinary heights to escape a house of horror

I Can't Go On

2024

The Sparrow poster
5.4

A teenager lies about his brother's death and struggles to face the consequences that unfold until his domineering father offers the possibility of forgiveness.

The Sparrow

2022

The Approach poster
1.0

Three women—two of them sisters—who were once best friends but have drifted apart are catching up over coffee. Over the course of three conversations spanning five years, we learn that they have allowed relationships with their partners to come between their relationships with each other—and gradually, a common secret of tragic consequence is revealed.

The Approach

2021

For the Cure poster
NR

On the day of his father’s funeral, a man loses the ability to speak. His mother tries to help him recover.

For the Cure

2026

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NR

An Irish Garda finds himself involved in a complex smuggling operation.

Runway One

1995

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NR

Several years after the suicide of a long term girlfriend, David is in a new relationship. However, a chance encounter with the dead woman's sister raises complex questions about just how complicit he was in her death.

Debris

2013

Snap poster
7.0

While Sandra opens up to a documentary film crew, flashbacks show her teenage son, Stephen, mysteriously kidnapping a toddler, and holding him captive. Eventually, the stories intersect to explain the abduction and the family's three-generation legacy of abuse in this mesmerizing psychological drama.

Snap

2010