Biography - Pauline McLynn was winner of Best Comedy Actress on British TV in 1996 for her role as Mrs. Doyle in the BAFTA award winning comedy series Father Ted for C4. Recent TV work includes; High Hopes (BBC), Bremner, Bird and Fortune (Channel 4, five series, ongoing), TV To Go (Comedy Sketch Show) for BBC 1 (two series), The Panel (RTE2), The Return (ITV), Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC), The Dark Ages (ITV), It Happened Last Year, Aristocrats, Ballykissangel all for the BBC. Pauline has guested on They Think it's all Over, and Have I Got News for You. Her film credits include: Iris directed by Richard Eyre, Heidi directed by Paul Marcus, Angela's Ashes directed by Alan Parker, Black Day At Black Rock directed by Gerry Stembridge for RTE , The Most Fertile Man in Ireland directed by Dudi Appleton, An Everlasting Piece directed by Barry Levinson and When Brendan met Trudy directed by Kieron J. Walsh. Other work includes: Quills, Nora, Her Own Rules, Guilttrip, and Roddy Doyle's TV series Family, directed by Michael Winterbottom. Pauline is also a well-loved face on the Irish Stage and has appeared with all of its major theatres including The Abbey and Gate, Rough Magic and Druid. Most recently Pauline appeared as Catherine in Rough Magic's production of The Taming of the Shrew directed by Lynne Parker at the Project Arts Centre Dublin and recently appeared as Noirin in the remounted production of Fiona Looney's hit play Dandelions the Olympia Theatre. Pauline is also a seasoned radio performer, best known on radio for her work on Gerry Stembridge and Dermot Morgan's legendary satire series Scrap Saturday for RTE Radio 1. Pauline has published six best-selling novels, Something for the Weekend (1999), Better Than A Rest (2001), Right on Time (2002), The Woman on the Bus (2004), Summer in the City (2005) and her sixth Bright Lights and Promises is currently on sale in Ireland and the U.K. Pauline appeared in the leading role of Helen in Gypo, the first Dogme licensed film made in the U.K. directed by Jann Dunn for Distant Eye/Medb Films which had its Irish premiere at the Dublin Film Festival 2006 and won a British Independent Film Award and was nominated for a Golden Hitchcock at the Dinard British Film Festival in 2005. This summer (2007) Pauline completed filming the role of Sister Hilda opposite Brendan Blethyn in The Calling written and directed by Jan Dunn for Medb Films and due for release in 2008. Pauline recently appeared in Jam and Jerusalem (aka Clatterford) as Tip Haddem opposite Jennifer Saunders, Sue Johnston, Dawn French and Joanna Lumley for BBC1 Television and she is currently shooting series two of the series which will air in late 2007.