BARBARA BRENNAN
Height: 5′ 3”
Hair: Fair
Eyes: Blue
Awards:
Best Actor award for ‘The Heiress’ (Gate Theatre) – Irish Theatre Awards 1979
Best Supporting Actor for ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ – Irish Theatre Awards 1981
Best Actor nomination for ‘Hedda Gabler’ – Irish Theatre Awards 1985
Best Actor award for ‘Town Is Dead’ (Abbey Theatre) – Irish Times Awards 2017
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deadly Cuts | Mrs Quinn | Cutting Loose Productions DAC | Rachel Carey |
| Dead Happy | Roisin | Bright Side Film Productions | Ruth Meehan |
| Dublin Murders | Mrs Fitzgerald | DMS Television Productions DAC | Rebecca Gatward |
| A Nation Holds It's Breath | Nancy | Pigeon Films | Kevin Cahill |
| A Date for Mad Mary | Nan | Ten Dates Productions Ltd | Darren Thornton |
| Penny Dreadful | Mrs Bazarov | Showtime & Sky TV | J.A. Bayona |
| The Tudors | IV Duchess of Norfolk | SW Productions Limited | Kieran Donnelly |
| The Clinic | Sheila McNamara | RTE | Declan Recks |
| No Tears | Dolly | RTE | Stephen Burke |
| Two Lifes: Hell for Leather | Joan | RTE | Kieron J. Walsh |
| Ulysses | Mrs. Thornton | Ulysses Pictures | Sean Walsh |
| Veronica Guerin | Journalist | Merrion Film Productions | Joel Schumacher |
| Production | Role | Company | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portia Coughan | Blaize Scully | Abbey Theatre | Caroline Byrne | |
| Sive | Nanna Glavin | Druid Theatre Company | Garry Hynes | |
| Anna Karenina | Countess Veronskaya | Abbey Theatre | Wayne Jordon | |
| Town is Dead | Ellen | Abbey Theatre | Philly McMahon | |
| Signatories | Nurse O'Farrell | Verdant Productions Ltd & U.C.D | Patrick Mason | |
| A Month In The Country | Anna Semyonovna Islayeva | Gate Theatre | Ethan McSweeny | |
| Heartbreak House | Nurse Guinness | Abbey Theatre | Roisin McBrinn | |
| Pride and Prejudice | Lady Catherine de Burgh | Gate Theatre | Alan Stanford | |
| The Hanging Gardens | Jane Grant | Abbey Theatre | Patrick Mason | |
| Shush | Marie | Abbey Theatre | Jim Culleton | |
| Steel Magnolias | M'Lynn | Solar Theatre Prod | Ben Barnes | |
| Hay Fever | Clara | Gate Theatre/ Spoleto Fesital – USA | Patrick Mason | |
| Tis Pity She's a Whore | Putana | Siren Productions | Selina Cartmell | |
| Hay Fever | Clara | Gate Theatre | Patrick Mason | |
| Jane Eyre | Mrs. Fairfax / Hanna | Gate Theatre | Alan Stanford | |
| Celebration | Prue | Gate Theatre | Wayne Jordan | |
| Present Laughter | Miss Erikson | Gate Theatre at Spoleto Festival | Alan Stanford | |
| Hamlet | Gertrude | Second Age Theatre Co. | Alan Stanford | |
| A Christmas Carol | Chorus / Charwoman | Gate Theatre | Alan Stanford | |
| All My Sons | Kate Keller | Gate Theatre | Robin Lefevre | |
| The Old Curiosity Shop | Mrs Jarnley | Gate Theatre | Alan Stanford | |
| Big Love | Bella | Abbey Theatre | Selina Cartmell | |
| The Deep Blue Sea | Mrs Elton | Gate Theatre | Alan Stanford | |
| Macbeth | Lady Macbeth | Siren Productions | Selina Cartmell | |
| Alice in Wonderland | Mrs Smithson / The Duchess & the MockTurtle | Landmark Productions | Michael Caven | |
| Woman and Scarecrow | Scarecrow | Abbey Theatre | Selina Cartmell | |
| Honour | Honor | Samuel Beckett Centre | Clare Lovett | |
| Salomé | Herodias | Gate Theatre | Alan Stanford | |
| Sleeping Beauty | Goody | Landmark Productions | Roisin McBrinn |