Susan Lynch
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Susan Lynch

Born 5 June 1971 · Corrinshego, Newry, Northern Ireland, UK
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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.

Known for

Ready Player One
Sex Education
Interview with the Vampire
Doctor Who
From Hell
Killing Eve
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Downton Abbey
Happy Valley
Waking Ned
The Secret Scripture
Unforgotten
Bring Them Down
Here Are the Young Men
Cold Blow Lane
National Theatre Live: Faith, Hope & Charity
Ups and Downs
Downton Abbey
Ready Player One
The Secret Scripture
Bad Day for the Cut
Away
Common
Hideaways
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
The Scouting Book for Boys
Holy Water
City Rats
The Unloved
The Race
The Robber Bride
A Woman in Winter
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Soundproof
Someone Else
Duane Hopwood
Mickybo and Me
Enduring Love
Burst
School of Life
16 Years of Alcohol
Casa de los Babys
Red Roses and Petrol
Everyman's Feast
From Hell
Happy Now
Morlang
Mapmaker
Deceit
Nora
Beautiful Creatures
Waking Ned
Downtime
A Royal Scandal
Interview with the Vampire
The Secret of Roan Inish
Running Late
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