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Home/People/Susan Lynch
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Born
Jun 5, 1971
Age 54
Place of Birth
Corrinshego, Newry, Northern Ireland, UK
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female

Career Highlights

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TV Shows
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Susan Lynch

Acting

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.
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Bring Them Down

as Peggy
2025
Here Are the Young Men poster

Here Are the Young Men

as Lynn Connolly
2021
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National Theatre Live: Faith, Hope & Charity

as Beth
2019
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Downton Abbey

as Miss Lawton
2019
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Ups and Downs

as Fionnuala
2019
Ready Player One poster

Ready Player One

as Alice
2018
Bad Day for the Cut poster

Bad Day for the Cut

as Frankie Pierce
2017
The Secret Scripture poster

The Secret Scripture

as Nurse
2017
Away poster

Away

as Angie
2016
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Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain

as Herself (uncredited)
2015
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Common

as Margaret Ward
2014
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Here and Now

as Lucy
2014
Hideaways poster

Hideaways

as Mrs. O'Mara
2011
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The Scouting Book for Boys

as Sharon
2010
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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

as Isabella Norcliffe
2010
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The Race

as Katey Kensay
2009
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Holy Water

as Geraldine Gaffney
2009
The Unloved poster

The Unloved

as Lucy's Mother
2009
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City Rats

as Gina
2009
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age

as Annette
2007