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Biography – Eleanor was co-founder of the award-winning Charabanc Theatre Company. In 1993 she received an EMA Best Actress Award for her work with the company, where she remained as Co-Artistic Director until 1995. Recent theatre credits include The Shape of Metal, Barbaric Comedies, Tartuffe, The Wild Duck and Hamlet at the Abbey and Peacock Theatres, Rough Magic’s award-winning production of Pentecost (Dublin Theatre Festival, Irish and British Tour, Donmar Warehouse, London). Shadow of a Gunman, Weddins, Weein and Wakes, The Factory Girls and Conversations on a Homecoming for the Lyric Theatre, Belfast and Our Father (Almeida). She appeared in the Gate Theatre’s production of Jane Eyre directed by Alan Stanford and in All’s Well That Ends Well directed by Andy Hinds for CSI Ireland. Eleanor received an Irish Times/ESB Best Actress Award in 2003 for her role as Maggie in Dancing at Lughnasa produced by An Grianan Theatre. Television and film work includes: The Clinic (as recurring character Dervla Rodgers, Zonad, Murphy’s Law, Small Engine Repair, The Snapper, The Disappearance of Finbar, The Boxer, Falling For A Dancer, Just in Time, Mad About Mambo, A Love Divided, The Ambassador, DDU, Disco Pigs, Baby Wars and The Return. Eleanor played Eileen Kirwan in the new TV series Love is A Drug directed by Darren Thornton for RTE for which she was nominated for an IFTA in 2005. Eleanor appeared in Paul Mercier’s Homelands at the Abbey Theatre Dublin, and in Becoming Jane directed by Julian Jarrold with Maggie Smith, Anne Hathaway and James Cromwell. She appeared in Druid Theatre’s production of The Year of the Hiker directed by Garry Hynes for Druid Theatre Company on national tour. Eleanor appeared in Don Carlos for Rough Magic Theatre company (directed by Lynne Parker), Scenes From The Big Picture for Prime Cut Theatre Company, directed by Conall Morrisson, Unravelling the Ribbon for Guna Nua Theatre Company and Saved at the Peacock Theatre, directed by Jimmy Fay for which she received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress from the 2008 Irish Times Theatre Awards. Eleanor appeared in The Recruiting Officer at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, directed by Lynne Parker and as Lily in Pentecost directed by Lynne Parker for the Rough Magic/Lyric Theatre Belfast co-production The Parker Project in Dublin and Belfast. Eleanor appeared as Lilian in You Are Here produced by Living Space theatre company for Dublin Theatre Festival 2008 and in Solemn Mass For A Full Moon In Summer directed by Tom Creed for Rough Magic Theatre Company at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Eleanor appeared in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot directed by Matt Tormey at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Eleanor recently appeared in the new Irish feature film Wide Open Spaces written by Arthur Mathews and directed by Tom Hall and in the independent feature Sensation written and directed by Tom Hall and most recently appeared in the comedy drama TV series An Crisis for Wildfire Films/TG4.

Eleanor appeared in Christ Deliver Us! a new play by Tom Kilroy directed by Wayne Jordan at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and in No Escape directed by Roisin McBrinn as part of the Peacock Theatres Darkest Corner Season. Eleanor appeared in Rough Magic’s hugely successful production of The Importance of Being Earnest directed by Lynne Parker at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. She most recently appeared in the Abbey theatre’s celebrated production of Pygmalion directed by Annabelle Comyn and in Rough Magic’s acclaimed production of Plaza Suite at the Pavillion Theatre, Dun Laoighaire.

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