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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. Most recent TV work includes; Bremner, Bird and Fortune (Channel 4, six series, ongoing), High Hopes (BBC), French and Saunders (BBC), TV To Go (Comedy Sketch Show, BBC1,two series), The Dark Ages for ITV, It Happened Last Year, Aristocrats and Ballykissangel all for the BBC. Pauline has guested on They Think it’s all Over, and Have I Got News for You and What the Panel Think. 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. She 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 seven 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), Bright Lights and Promises (2007) and her latest bestseller Missing You Already which 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. In 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 released in 2009. Pauline appeared in all three series of Jam and Jerusalem (aka Clatterford) as Tip Haddem opposite Jennifer Saunders, Sue Johnston, Dawn French and Joanna Lumley for BBC1 Television. Pauline appeared in both productions of Fiona Looney’s hit play Dandelions for Landmark Productions at the Olympia Theatre. Pauline recently toured Ireland in a remounted production of The Taming of The Shrew for Rough Magic Theatre company. Pauline appeared in Fiona Looney’s new play October in sellout runs at the Olympia Theatre and Cork Opera House for Landmark Productions in 2009. She recently appeared in the series regular role of Libby in the last two seasons of the Channel 4 series Shameless.

Pauline most recently appeared in an acclaimed production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days at the Sheffield Crucible directed by Jonathan Humphreys. She has just wrapped filming a recurring role in Comedy Central UK’s forthcoming comedy drama Threesome with Amy Huberman, directed by Ian Fitzgibbon and due for transmission on Comedy Central UK later this year.

Pauline’s London contact is Lou Coulson at Coulson Associates, telephone 0044 207 734 9633.

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