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Cathy graduated with a degree in English from Trinity College Dublin. Her theatre credits at the Abbey Theatre include The Crucible, The School For Scandal, The Playboy of the Western World (tour of Ireland and the US), The Burial at Thebes, The Plough and the Stars, A Whistle in the Dark, Tartuffe, Medea, The Broken Jug, Living Quarters, A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant and Silverlands. Other theatre work includes Festen, A View from the Bridge, Betrayal (Gate Theatre), Playboy of the Western World(Druid), Skylight (Landmark), Shiver (Rough Magic), Silas Marner, Woman in Arms (Storytellers), Tine Cnamh, An Triall, Scothscealta (Amharclann de hIde), True Lines (Bickerstaffe). Buddleia and Kitchensink (Passion Machine), The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet (Island) and Eclipsed (Town Hall, Galway). Television credits include Lucy Reilly in Glenroe, Paths to Freedom and Kay Corcoran in Proof. Films include the role of Sally in John Boorman’s film The Tiger’s Tail, Intermission, Paul Mercier’s Before I Sleep and Tupperware. Radio includes The Power of Darkness, Departures, The Plough and the Stars, The Beebox, Performances and Juno and the Paycock for BBC and RTE. Cathy appeared as Sylvia in The Recruiting Officer directed by Lynne Parker at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. She recently appeared in the role of Maura (lead) in ROY a new TV series for Jam Media Ireland and the BBC currently airing on CBBC (UK) and BBC 2 and which has just been nominated for two BAFTA Childrens Awards for Best Drama and Best Writer.

Cathy also recently appeared in the independent Irish feature films Savage, directed by Brendan Muldowney and Little Foxes directed by Mira Fornayova for Samson Films. Cathy appeared in Solemn Mass For A Full Moon In Summer directed by Tom Creed for Rough Magic Theatre Company at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin and appeared in Only An Apple a new play by Tom McIntyre directed by Selina Cartmell at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin. Cathy appeared in the role of Terry, a guest lead in Season 7 of The Clinic produced by Parallel Films for RTE which broadcast in the Autumn of 2009. Cathy appeared in Fishamble Theatre’s acclaimed production of Abbie Spallen’s new play Strandline directed by Jim Culleton at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin. She appeared in Christ Deliver Us! by Tom Kilroy, directed by Wayne Jordan at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and as Jinny Gogan in The Plough and The Stars directed by Wayne Jordan at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Cathy recently appeared in Single Handed IV on ITV /RTE as a series regular Aine and most recently appeared with Fiona Shaw, Alan Rickman and Lyndsay Duncan in Frank McGuinness’ new adaptation of Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman directed by James Macdonald at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin for the Dublin Theatre Festival 2010 which transferred to the Brooklyn Academy of Music to huge acclaim in early 2011. Since then Cathy has shot a second season of ROY for the BBC which will air in 2012 and she recently appeared in Marina Carr’s new play 16 Possible Glimpses directed by Wayne Jordan for the Peacock Theatre as part of the 2011 Dublin Theatre Festival. She most recently appeared in Tis a Pity She’s A Whore directed by Selina Cartmell for Highlight Productions.

Cathy is represented in the UK by Rose Parkinson at Lisa Richards, London, telephone 0044 207 922 5799.

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