Susan Lynch
Actor
Biography
Susan Lynch (born 5 June 1971) is an actor from Northern Ireland.
She is known for her role in the 2003 film 16 Years of Alcohol. Her other film appearances include Waking Ned Devine (1998), Nora (2000), Beautiful Creatures (2000), and From Hell (2001). Lynch was born in 1971 in Corrinshego, County Armagh, Northern Ireland to an Italian mother (from Trivento) and an Irish father. She has four siblings; her eldest brother is actor John Lynch. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Lynch has won three Irish Film and Television Academy Awards, including Best Leading Actress for her work in the film Nora, about Nora Barnacle and her husband, Irish author James Joyce. She also won the British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2003 film 16 Years of Alcohol. In 2020, she was listed as number 42 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
Filmography
Interview with the Vampire
as Paris Vampire 1994
From Hell
as Liz Stride 2001
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
as Annette 2007
Downton Abbey
as Miss Lawton 2019
Waking Ned
as Maggie O'Toole 1998
The Secret Scripture
as Nurse 2017
Bad Day for the Cut
as Frankie Pierce 2017
Enduring Love
as Rachel 2004
The Secret of Roan Inish
as Selkie 1994
Beautiful Creatures
as Dorothy 2000
Bring Them Down
as Peggy 2025
Hideaways
as Mrs. O'Mara 2011
Holy Water
as Geraldine Gaffney 2009
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
as Isabella Norcliffe 2010
Here Are the Young Men
as Lynn Connolly 2021
Mickybo and Me
as Torch Woman 2005