Susan Lynch
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.
Movie Appearances
Waking Ned
as Maggie O'Toole
1998
From Hell
as Liz Stride
2001
Bring Them Down
as Peggy
2025
Enduring Love
as Rachel
2004
Nora
as Nora Barnacle
2000
16 Years of Alcohol
as Mary
2003
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
as Isabella Norcliffe
2010
The Robber Bride
as Charis White
2007
Beautiful Creatures
as Dorothy
2000
Casa de los Babys
as Eileen
2003
Running Late
as Receptionist 2
1992
Holy Water
as Geraldine Gaffney
2009
City Rats
as Gina
2009
Happy Now
as Tina Trent
2001
The Unloved
as Lucy's Mother
2009
Morlang
as Ann Morlang
2001
Interview with the Vampire
as Paris Vampire
1994
Downtime
as Chrissy
1997
A Woman in Winter
as Marianne
2007
National Theatre Live: Faith, Hope & Charity
as Beth
2019
TV Appearances
Cracker
as Tina
1993
Bodies
as Maria Orton
2004
Unforgotten
as Liz Baildon
2015
Bloodlands
as Heather Pentland
2021
Ivanhoe
as Rebecca
1997
Monroe
2011
Sweet Revenge
as Madelaine Adair
2001
Sex Education
as Tara Gibbs
2019
The Secret of Crickley Hall
as Lili Peel
2012
Moving On
as Tina
2009
New Tricks
as Claudia Scott
2004
Close to Me
as Cathy
2021