Pauline McLynn was winner of Best Comedy Actress on British TV in 1996 for her role as Mrs. Doyle in the BAFTA award winning comedy series Father Ted for C4. Most recent TV work includes; TV To Go (Comedy Sketch Show) for BBC 1 (two series), Bremner, Bird and Fortune(Channel 4, four series, ongoing), The Panel (RTE2), The Dark Ages for ITV, It Happened Last Year, Aristocrats, Ballykissangel all for the BBC. Pauline has guested on They Think it’s all Over, and Have I Got News for You. Her film credits include: Iris directed by Richard Eyre, Angela’s Ashes directed by Alan Parker, Black Day At Black Rock directed by Gerry Stembridge for RTE , The Most Fertile Man in Ireland directed by Dudi Appleton, An Everlasting Piece directed by Barry Levinson and When Brendan met Trudy directed by Kieron J. Walsh. Other work includes: Quills, Nora, Her Own Rules, Guilttrip, and Roddy Doyle's TV series Family, directed by Michael Winterbottom. Pauline is also a well- loved face on the Irish Stage and has appeared with all of its major theatres including The Abbey and Gate, Rough Magic and Druid. She is also a seasoned radio performer. Pauline has published four best-selling novels, Something for the Weekend (1999), Better Than A Rest (2001), Right on Time (2002), The Woman on the Bus (2004) and her fifth Picture This will be published in November. Most recently Pauline completed filming the role of Dettie in Heidi, directed by Paul Marcus for Piccadilly Pictures/Warner Brothers, and the leading role of Helen in Gypo, the first Dogme licensed film made in the U.K. directed by Jann Dunn for Distant Eye/Medb Films. Both films are due for release later this year.
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