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Tara Lynne O'Neill
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Tara-Lynne O'Neill (born 16 November 1975) is a film, theatre and television actress from Northern Ireland. During her childhood, she aspired to become a dentist, but abandoned t…
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Tara-Lynne O'Neill (born 16 November 1975) is a film, theatre and television actress from Northern Ireland. During her childhood, she aspired to become a dentist, but abandoned this after failing her General Certificate of Secondary Education in chemistry. At sixth-form college, she opted for a career in acting. O'Neill started work as a television presenter on Saturday Disney from 1993 to 1996. She was also a main presenter on The Over the Wall Gang, a young people's television show from BBC Northern Ireland O'Neill also appeared in film roles such as the town's seductress in The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (1999), and as Claire McKee in Wild About Harry (2000). She later played Joanne Ryan in EastEnders, appearing in 58 episodes between 20 September 2002, and 21 August 2003. Between 2013 and 2016, she appeared in The Fall. In 2018, she joined the main cast of Derry Girls as Mary Quinn, remaining on the show until the airing of the final episode on 18 May 2022. In April 2024, O'Neill was cast as Inspector Eve Dunlop in BBC's Hope Street for the show's fourth series. Her other roles include The Informant (1997), Disco Pigs (2001), Full Circle and Omagh (2004).
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2026
Hope Street: One of Our Own
Movie Inspector Eve Dunlop
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2026
Skintown
Movie
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2026
The Spin
Movie Sadie
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2025
Paddy and Nigel's Tourist Trap
TV show Self
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2024
Best Before
Movie
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2023
The Last Rifleman
Movie Tracy Milligan
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2023
Malcolm
Movie Dr Gallagher
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2021
Hope Street
TV show Inspector Eve Dunlop
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2021
Just Johnny
Movie Mrs. Wilson
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2019
The Bay
TV show Sinead Flanagan
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2018
Derry Girls
TV show Ma Mary Quinn
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2017
Our Lives
TV show Self - Narrator
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2015
Farr
TV show Jennifer Conroy
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2015
A Patch of Fog
Movie Vera
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2015
Insulin
Movie The Pharmacist's Wife
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2013
The Fall
TV show Martina Dean
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2013
Made in Belfast
Movie Jane
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2012
Line of Duty
TV show Lorna
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2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
TV show Self - Participant
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2005
Omagh
Movie Carol Radford
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2003
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Movie Angel Hunter
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2002
Chaos
Movie Marie
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2002
Bobbie's Girl
Movie Tina
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2001
Disco Pigs
Movie Mags
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2000
Wild About Harry
Movie
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2000
The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
Movie Mary Mallory
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1997
The Informant
Movie RUC Policewoman
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1994
Touched by an Angel
TV show
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So You're Going to Die
Movie Bernie
