Simone Kirby

Simone Kirby is an Irish actress. She is probably best known for playing Oonagh in the Ken Loach film Jimmy's Hall. Other credits include Irene O'Donnell in Peaky Blinders (2014), Marilyn Hull in Notes on Blindness (2016), Tyva Hightopp in Alice Through The Looking Glass (2016), Sr. Grace in Houdini and Doyle (2016), Maria Roche in The Truth Commissioner (2016), Annette Rane in Clean Break (2015), Tracey Moynihan in Love/Hate (2014) and Geraldine Grehan in the RTÉ series Pure Mule. She co-wrote and performed in the RTÉ comedy sketch show Meet Your Neighbours in 2011 with P.J. Gallagher. She also appeared in Season of the Witch in 2011. On stage she appeared in Dancing at Lughnasa at The Old Vic, Macbeth at Shakespeare's Globe, Molly Sweeney at the Irish Rep in New York and Curve in Leicester, Festen at the Gate Theatre, Mud and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with the Corn Exchange, Dublin, Don Carlos and The Taming of the Shrew with Rough Magic and The Tinker's Wedding under Garry Hynes for the Druid Theatre Company's DruidSynge. She also portrayed Nuala in The Cavalcaders under Robin Lefevre and Lady Teasle in The School For Scandal under Jimmy Fay at Dublin's Abbey Theatre.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2005	Pure Mule	Geraldine
2008	Single Handed	Brigid
2009	Pure Mule	Geraldine
2011	Season of the Witch	Midwife
2011	Meet Your Neighbours	Auntie Maureen / Mrs Balfe
2014	Jimmy's Hall	Oonagh
2014	Peaky Blinders	Irene O'Donnell
2014	Love/Hate	Tracey Moynihan
2015	Clean Break	Annette Rane
2016	The Truth Commissioner	Maria Roche
2016	Notes on Blindness	Marilyn
2016	Houdini and Doyle	Sister Grace
2016	Alice Through The Looking Glass	Tyva Hightopp

External links

• Simone Kirby at the Internet Movie Database