Geraldine O'Rawe

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Geraldine O'Rawe (born March 4, 1971 in Belfast ) is a Northern Irish theater and film actress .

Life

Geraldine O'Rawe attended St Louisa's College in her hometown of Belfast. After a tour of Ireland , she soon appeared at the prestigious National Theater in London with the Marillac Theater Company, an acting company she co-founded in college . There she received the National Theater Youth Award in 1989. After studying acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in 1992, she stood with the Moving Theater Company under the direction of Corin and Vanessa Redgrave in small theater productions on stage, where performances at the Everyman Theater in Liverpool and at London's Gate Theater followed .

For the television miniseries Final Run (1988) she first stood in front of the film camera at the end of the 1980s. In 1993 she was in an episode of the series The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones on television again. Her first screen role was in the Maeve Binchy film adaptation of Circle of Friends in 1995, as one of three young women from the Irish provinces who were studying at the end of the 1950s, alongside Minnie Driver and Chris O'Donnell start in Dublin . In the same period and also in Ireland playing television miniseries Amongst Women based on the novel of the same name by John McGahern , O'Rawe played one of the leading roles in 1998. In the few larger productions in which she participated, she was used in supporting roles, such as in Terry George's Mothers & Sons (1996) as the daughter of Helen Mirren or in the film drama I Want You (1998) alongside Rachel Weisz . In the partly computer-animated French children's series Sieben Zwerge & I , she played the role of the evil queen for 39 episodes from 2016 to 2019.

O'Rawe lives in London and is married to the Canadian director and cameraman Paul Sarossy , with whom she worked in 1996 for the independent film Mariette In Ecstasy . In 2000, she also starred in his psychological thriller A Murder Ballad . The marriage resulted in two daughters and a son.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. omovie.com
personal data
SURNAME O'Rawe, Geraldine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Northern Irish theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfast , Northern Ireland