Eva Birthistle Movies and Career Information

Eva Birthistle (born January 1, 1974 in Bray, Co. Wicklow) is an Irish actress, best known for her role in Ae Fond Kiss.... She has won the London Film Critics Circle British Actress of the Year award for 2004 (despite not being British), and has twice won the IFTA Best Actor in a Leading Role (Film) award. The daughter of a farmer, the family moved to Derry when she was 14. She was raised Roman Catholic. As a teenager, Eva went to Dublin to study acting at the The Gaiety School of Acting. On 31 December 2006 she married actor and musician Raife Burchell. In 1995, she got her first TV role as Regina Crosbie in the serial Glenroe, one of Irish channel RTE's highest-rated shows. She stayed for three years until 1998. Other TV work followed, until she was offered her first feature film in 1997, All Souls' Day by Alan Gilsenan. She played a variety of roles in Irish films, including Drinking Crude (1997), co-starring Colin Farrell, and TV movie Miracle at Midnight (1998), with Mia Farrow. In 2002, Eva appeared in two dramas about the same challenging subject, Bloody Sunday: the documentary-style TV drama Bloody Sunday, starring James Nesbitt, and Sunday, written by Jimmy McGovern. Her