Susan Lynch
Susan Lynch (born 5 June 1971) is an actor from Northern Ireland. She is known for her role in the 2003 film 16 Years of Alcohol. Her other film appearances include Waking Ned Devine (1998), Nora (2000), Beautiful Creatures (2000), and From Hell (2001). Lynch was born in 1971 in Corrinshego, County Armagh, Northern Ireland to an Italian mother (from Trivento) and an Irish father. She has four siblings; her eldest brother is actor John Lynch. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Lynch has won three Irish Film and Television Academy Awards, including Best Leading Actress for her work in the film Nora, about Nora Barnacle and her husband, Irish author James Joyce. She also won the British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2003 film 16 Years of Alcohol. In 2020, she was listed as number 42 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
84 acting credits
Acting · 84
Doctor Who
2005
Sex Education
2019
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Killing Eve
2018
New Tricks
2004
Ready Player One
2018
Unforgotten
2015
Moving On
2009
Happy Valley
2014
Cracker
1993
A Thousand Blows
2025
Interview with the Vampire
1994
Pistol
2022
Save Me
2018
Wild Bill
2019
Great Expectations
2011
Downton Abbey
2019
Bloodlands
2021
Small Town, Big Story
2025
Bodies
2004
National Treasure
2016
Daddy Issues
2024
Apple Tree Yard
2017
The Change
2023
Monroe
2011
Ivanhoe
1997
From Hell
2001
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
The Secret of Crickley Hall
2012
The Ten Commandments
2006
Ambassadors
2013
The Unloved
2009
Kings in Grass Castles
1998
Chasing Shadows
2014
Close to Me
2021
Amongst Women
1998
Bring Them Down
2025
Any Time Now
2002
The Secret Scripture
2017
Sweet Revenge
2001
Waking Ned
1998
Holy Water
2009
Nora
2000
Beautiful Creatures
2000
Lost Lives
2019
Enduring Love
2004
Away
2016
Hideaways
2011
The Secret of Roan Inish
1994
Here Are the Young Men
2021
Common
2014
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
2010
Mickybo and Me
2005
City Rats
2009
Happy Now
2001
Bad Day for the Cut
2017
Mapmaker
2001
The Robber Bride
2007
Casa de los Babys
2003
School of Life
2004
Running Late
1992
Morlang
2001
16 Years of Alcohol
2003
The Scouting Book for Boys
2010
Burst
2004
Duane Hopwood
2005
A Woman in Winter
2007
Downtime
1997
The Perfect Match
1995
Dangerous Lady
1995
Dumping Elaine
2001
Deceit
2001
Truth or Dare
1996
Soundproof
2006
Bye-Child
2003
The Big Fix
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A Royal Scandal
1997
Someone Else
2006
The Race
2009
Ups and Downs
2019
Red Roses and Petrol
2003
National Theatre Live: Faith, Hope & Charity
2019
Here and Now
2014
Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain
2015