Eileen Colgan Bio - Biography

Name Eileen Colgan
Height
Naionality Irish
Date of Birth
Place of Birth Dublin, Ireland
Famous for Acting
Eileen Colgan is an Irish actress. Eileen started her career in Dublin and worked in theatres there and in London where she also worked extensively in radio and television. After joining the Abbey Theatre Players she appeared regularly there in shows like The Winters Tale, Measure for Measure, The Hostage’, Ulysses in Nightown, Richard’s Cork Leg and Talbot’s Box amongst many others (the latter two shows also enjoyed successful London seasons).

Eileen appeared as Nora in the film adaptation of Maeve Binchy’s novel Tara Road with Andie McDowell and Stephen Rea. She appeared in Single-Handed, the TV series mini-series for RTE/Touchpaper TV which will air on ITV1 later this year (2009), and in Prosperity a TV mini-series by Mark O’Halloran directed by Lenny Abrahamson for Element Films/RTE. Eileen recently appeared in Bittersweet a new TV drama directed by Declan Eames for Element Films/RTE. She also recently appeared with Ron Pearlman in I Sell The Dead directed by Glenn McQuaid for the 2009 Dublin Film Festival and in A Film With Me In It directed by Ian Fitzgibbon for Parallel Films. She recently appeared with Martin Shaw in Inspector George Gently (BBC) and is currently appearing as series regular Esther in RTE’s Fair City.