
Acting
Tara Lynne O'Neill
Born
1975-11-16 (50)
Place of birth
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Known for
Acting
Credits
30 titles
Tara-Lynne O'Neill (born 16 November 1975) is a film, theatre and television actress from Northern Ireland. During her childhood, she aspired to become a dentist, but abandoned this after failing her General Certificate of Secondary Education in chemistry. At sixth-form college, she opted for a career in acting. O'Neill started work as a television presenter on Saturday Disney from 1993 to 1996. She was also a main presenter on The Over the Wall Gang, a young people's television show from BBC Northern Ireland O'Neill also appeared in film roles such as the town's seductress in The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (1999), and as Claire McKee in Wild About Harry (2000). She later played Joanne …
Known for
7.2Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.
Touched by an Angel
1994
8.2A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
Line of Duty
2012
6.0Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
8.1Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
Derry Girls
2018
6.5Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned.
The Bay
2019
7.7When the Police Service of Northern Ireland are unable to close a case after 28 days, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson of the Metropolitan Police Service is called in to review the case. Under her new leadership, the local detectives must track down and stop a serial killer who is terrorising the city of Belfast.
The Fall
2013
Film credits
2020s · 7 titles
6.6A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.
The Last Rifleman
2023
NRA violent crime committed against a much-loved local and the police investigation brings bad news for DS Marlene Pettigrew. Love is also in the air and there’s a wedding to plan, but this is Port Devine, what could possibly go wrong?
Hope Street: One of Our Own
2026
8.01994. As Northern Ireland takes its first steps towards peace, best friends Vinny and Jonty are about to jump start their futures with the most reckless trip of their lives.
Skintown
2026
6.0A struggling record store owner travels down south to Cork with his best friend in a bid to save his shop from closure.
The Spin
2026
7.0In the aftermath of an emotionally abusive relationship, a man seeks couples counselling with a sock puppet likeness of his ex-boyfriend, Malcolm.
Malcolm
2023
NRHelena and Lainie head into their final round of IVF treatment and the stresses of the unknown begin to put pressure on their idyllic farm life. With their chicken, Shakira, laying eggs every day Helena decides to make it a competiti
Best Before
2024
NRMaria, Dermot, and their son Johnny live in West Belfast. Their conventional, straightforward family life is jolted when Johnny tells his Mum that he wants to wear a dress for his upcoming First Holy Communion.
Just Johnny
2021
2010s · 3 titles
6.5A university teacher gets caught shoplifting by a security guard, who won’t let him go. He becomes his new best friend and says ‘I won’t call the cops if you come and have a pint with me’. From there a twisted romance of sorts unfolds.
A Patch of Fog
2015
5.0Jack Kelly is a successful novelist who leads a reclusive life in his apartment in Paris. His first novel, Made in Belfast, was a critical and commercial success – there was only one problem: it exposed the private lives and innermost secrets of his close friends and family, and none of them have spoken to him since he ran away. But when circumstances conspire to bring him back to his hometown for a few days, he decides to spend that time putting things right with the friends he betrayed, the brother he abandoned, and the fiancée he jilted.
Made in Belfast
2013
7.5Holed up in a run down pharmacy, a man helps his diabetic wife to survive on dwindling supplies of insulin, trading medicine for food from the outside world. When a stranger comes looking for insulin, and refuses to be turned away, both husband and wife must face the reality of her rapidly shortening life.
Insulin
2015
2000s · 7 titles
6.2An aging actress' husband dies of a heart attack en route to Rome, where they'd planned to holiday. There, she rents an apartment and, through the Contessa, she meets a young man, with whom she begins an affair.
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
2003
6.6The 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
5.8Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a delicate, insular and dangerous world where they make their own rules and have their own language. But days before their 17th birthday the balance of their world begins to shift. Pig's sexual awakening and jealousy begins to threaten their private universe.
Disco Pigs
2001
6.0A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again.
Wild About Harry
2000
4.4Two middle-aged lesbians find their lives complicated when one of them takes in her ten-year-old nephew.
Bobbie's Girl
2002
5.7Unimpressive, 24-year-old virgin, Eamonn (Kris Marshall) lives in Belfast with his mother, during the Troubles. Local girl, Mary Malloy (Tara O'Neil) decides that since she has probably slept with every man in town Eamonn should be next on her list. He proves to be quite a catch... and Mary gets pregnant even though she took precautions. A doctor discovers that Eamonn has a very high sperm count and, with the birth rate in Ireland decreasing, Millicent (Bronagh Gallagher) decides to hire out Eamonn to women whose husbands have been firing blanks; all with the blessing of the local Catholic church which sees it as morally better than artificial means.
The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
2000
6.0In the near future a young biker leaves his crumbling life in rural Ireland to join a strange 'metal circus' as it tours the cities of Europe. He discovers a dark side to the circus and decides to leave, but finds he is caught between his love of a circus girl and the dark hand of the boss who is determined he stays.
Chaos
2002
Series credits
7.2Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.
Touched by an Angel
1994
8.2A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
Line of Duty
2012
8.2A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
Line of Duty
2012
6.0Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
8.1Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
Derry Girls
2018
6.5Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned.
The Bay
2019
7.7When the Police Service of Northern Ireland are unable to close a case after 28 days, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson of the Metropolitan Police Service is called in to review the case. Under her new leadership, the local detectives must track down and stop a serial killer who is terrorising the city of Belfast.
The Fall
2013
5.2Port Devine, a small town in Northern Ireland, sees the mysterious arrival of English detective Leila Hussain, the first Muslim police officer in the town's history. Her entrance opens the door for a variety of cases among the locals.
Hope Street
2021
NRCelebrating life in the UK in all its diversity – as seen through the eyes of remarkable people doing extraordinary things.
Our Lives
2017
NRMichael Gallagher is an ambitious young detective, promoted to a task force aimed at taking down Belfast's most dangerous crime family: the Farrs. However, as his investigation deepens, a murder pushes him towards a reckoning with his own dark past.
Farr
2015
Paddy Raff is challenged by his posh alter-ego Nigel to show off Northern Ireland's hidden gems. With funny friends in tow he tries everything from milking cows to pulling pints.
Paddy and Nigel's Tourist Trap
2025


