Niamh Algar

Niamh Algar is an Irish actress. From Mullingar, the youngest of five children, she is a graduate from The Programme of Screen Acting at The Factory, Bow Street in Dublin.[1][2] She has lived in London since 2016.

She has appeared in Conor McMahon's From the Dark, Aoife Crehan's road trip movie The Last Right, Lorcan Finnegan's Without Name, Rose Cartwright's Pure,[3] the Michael Fassbender-produced Calm With Horses from first-time feature director Nick Rowland,[4][5] and Desiree Akhavan's The Bisexual.[6]

She was named amongst the 2019 BAFTAs Breakthrough Brits (that is, as one of the actors selected by Bafta as rising stars of the British film industry).[7] [8]

She played Dinah in Shane Meadows' The Virtues.[4][9]

She has also appeared in MotherFatherSon, and Ridley Scott's Raised by Wolves.[10]

References
  1. "One to Watch: Irish Actress Niamh Algar Wows in Texas". Her.ie.
  2. "Ireland's next big thing: Niamh Algar on her incredible year". 5 December 2019.
  3. "Pure: Meet the cast of the Channel 4 comedy". PopBuzz. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  4. Jarlath Regan (23 February 2020). "Niamh Algar". An Irishman Abroad (Podcast) (336 ed.). SoundCloud. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  5. Kermode, Mark (15 March 2020). "Calm with Horses review – fear and loathing in Ireland's wild west". The Guardian.
  6. "'The Bisexual': First Trailer For Desiree Akhavan's Channel 4 & Hulu Comedy". uk.news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  7. "Breakthrough Brits 2019". BAFTA.org. 30 October 2019.
  8. "Irish actor named as one of Britain's rising stars". Irish Times. October 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  9. "Actress Niamh Algar on why truth is the cornerstone of filmmaking". hungertv.com. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  10. "Irish actress Niamh Algar boxed with Ridley Scott". RTÉ News. 29 February 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2020.


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