Orla Brady | |
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 Brady at the 2020 Dublin International Film Festival | |
| Born | 28 March 1961 Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Spouse | |
Orla Brady (born 28 March 1961) is an Irish theatre, television, and film actress born in Dublin. She started her career as a touring theatre performer and began appearing regularly in television roles in the 1990s. She has been nominated for several awards from the Irish Film & Television Academy for her television work. Major or recurring TV roles continued in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, with Brady appearing in over thirty series, limited series, or television movies up to the 2020s. This included her portrayal of two supporting characters in the CBS-Paramount+ series, Star Trek: Picard.
Brady's first role in film was in Words Upon the Window Pane in 1994. An early starring film role in the RTÉ-BBC co-production A Love Divided, won her the 1999 Golden Nymph Best Actress Award. Brady has since appeared in more than a dozen feature films and several short films, and was named in the 2020 list of Ireland's greatest film actors, published by The Irish Times.
Brady married in 2002 and lives in Los Angeles and Dublin.