Pauline McLynn
Pauline McLynn (born 11 July 1962) is an Irish character actress and author. She is best known for her roles as Mrs. Doyle in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted, Libby Croker in the Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless, Tip Haddem in the BBC One comedy Jam & Jerusalem, and Yvonne Cotton in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9104 |
| Birthday | 1962-07-11 |
| Place of Birth | Sligo, Republic of Ireland |
| Also Known As |
2005
Gypo
5.344/16
Gypo is the story of a working class family in Margate, Kent, a town where immigrants have become the focus of most of the public's discontent. The f...
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Gypo
2021
Last Night in Soho
7.262/4015
A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1...
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Last Night in Soho
2000
An Everlasting Piece
5.9/10
Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business...
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An Everlasting Piece
2005
Heidi
7.757/140
Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charg...
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Heidi
1996
My Friend Joe
7.286/7
During the course of one summer, a young Irish lad named Chris befriends an American boy named Joe. The two couldn't be more different, yet they becom...
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My Friend Joe
2002
Gina And Stella
10/1
Gina barges in on Stella after a hard day of shopping.
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Gina And Stella
2013
Dermot Morgan: Fearless Funnyman
0/0
A selection of Dermot Morgan's family, friends, colleagues and admirers, including Pat Shortt, Oliver Callan and Pauline Mc Lynn, look back on the lif...
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Dermot Morgan: Fearless Funnyman
2001
Black Day at Black Rock
7/1
Satirical take on the reactions of the inhabitants of an Irish village when they learn that a group of thirty asylum seekers is to be relocated to the...
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Black Day at Black Rock
2020
Out!
1/2
A heartfelt comedy drama about the parent/child relationship, the generation gap, the fear of rejection and the need for acceptance.
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Out!
1985
The Playboy of the Western World
0/0
A story of love, rivalry and betrayal – Synge’s best-known work is a must-see from this multi-award winning company.' Synge’s great comic masterpiece...
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The Playboy of the Western World
2003
The Return
6.815/84
A former alcoholic returns home after ten years in prison for the murder of her husband. As her recollection of the murder returns, things take a diff...
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The Return
2014
Noble
6.384/43
Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
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Noble
2017
The Secret Scripture
7.231/333
The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and...
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The Secret Scripture
2001
Iris
6.389/226
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheime...
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Iris
1994
Family
8/3
This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusiv...
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Family
1999
Angela's Ashes
7.32/361
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prej...
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Angela's Ashes
1998
Her Own Rules
6.333/3
Melissa Gilbert stars as Meredith. A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for the first time since she was about 6 or 7 years o...
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Her Own Rules
2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
6.065/6886
Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history...
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Transformers: The Last Knight
2000
When Brendan Met Trudy
4.423/13
Brendan is an earnest, introverted schoolteacher who, aside from his participation in the local choir, has only one passion in his life -- the movies....
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When Brendan Met Trudy
2018
Dave Allen at Peace
4.4/18
Filmed in homage to his original TV series, this fictionalised account follows Dave Allen from childhood to becoming one of the UK and Ireland's come...
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Dave Allen at Peace
2018
Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
4.4/13
Morten, a ten-year-old boy, is shrunk to the size of an insect due to a magical fog gun. Soon, he finds himself on his makeshift model ship sailing th...
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Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
2000
Quills
7.152/747
In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writings continue to circulate beyond its walls. As the...
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Quills
2000
Nora
5.25/18
In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibite...
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Nora
1992
Far and Away
6.769/1347
A young free-spirited Irish woman from an affluent Protestant family spontaneously befriends a street-smart commoner cheated by her family’s hostile l...
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Far and Away
2019
Making Noise Quietly: Three Conversations
5.7/3
Three stories of strangers meeting on the edge of war. A conscientious objector and a roaming artist find tenderness as the carnage of the Second Worl...
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Making Noise Quietly: Three Conversations
2019
A Girl from Mogadishu
5.8/4
The story of the life and times of Ifrah Ahmed, Somali-Irish campaigner against female genital mutilation and cutting.
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A Girl from Mogadishu
2018
Johnny English Strikes Again
6.286/2843
Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only...
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Johnny English Strikes Again
2021
Riverdance: The Animated Adventure
5.971/105
A young Irish boy named Keegan and Spanish girl named Moya journey into a magical world of the Megaloceros Giganteus who teach them to appreciate Rive...
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Riverdance: The Animated Adventure
2000
The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
5.7/10
Unimpressive, 24-year-old virgin, Eamonn (Kris Marshall) lives in Belfast with his mother, during the Troubles. Local girl, Mary Malloy (Tara O'Neil)...
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The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
2021
Deadly Cuts
4.471/17
A black comedy set in a working-class Dublin hair salon where the stylists become accidental vigilantes and community heroes as they take on the gang...
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Deadly Cuts
2024
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
6.5/6
Three Mysterious Curses, two lost souls... and one incredibly difficult dance. A lowly goatherd seeks out a reclusive witch to break the evil enchant...
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Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
2010
The Calling
0/0
Joanna - a university student - leaves her course to become a nun.
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The Calling
Sweet Delusion
0/0
A criminal on the run hides out in the rural farmhouse of an elderly woman, who believes her to be her missing daughter.
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Sweet Delusion
1997
So You Think You're Irish
0/0
In early 1997, Amnesty held a comedy gala at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin. The performers were primarily Irish performers including: Barry Murphy, Bre...
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So You Think You're Irish
2022
Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks
1/1
New Year’s Eve. Sarah is working - again. Nick is her only customer - again. Same old same old. Except this year, their countdown to midnight will be...
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Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks
Gameface
0/0
It's Marcella's 30th birthday and this year she's determined to sort her life out. Luckily she's found a life coach who's prepared to help with that m...
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Gameface
The Truth About Claire
9/1
Docu-drama that traces the story of a suicide as reconstructed from interviews with neighbors on the housing estate where she has come to stay with he...
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