Eva Birthistle

Eva Birthistle is an Irish actress, best known for her role in Ae Fond Kiss.... She won the London Film Critics Circle British Actress of the Year Award in 2004, and has twice won the IFTA Best Actress in a Leading Role award.

Birthistle was born in Bray, County Wicklow in the Republic of Ireland, but moved with her family to Derry, Northern Ireland when she was 14. She was raised Catholic but attended Foyle College. As a teenager, she went to Dublin to study acting at The Gaiety School of Acting.

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