News 2020

STRANGE FLOWERS 
By Donal Ryan
Donna narrates the audiobook of ‘Strange Flowers’.

In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears. Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again. Five years later, Moll returns. What – and who – she brings with her will change the course of her family’s life forever. Publication release Aug 27th 2020. 

BLOOD (Season 2) 
TV Drama directed by Maurice Sweeney.
Donna plays the role of solicitor ‘Louisa Short’.

THE SOUTH WESTERLIES (PP / 2020)
TV Dramedy directed by Declan Recks and Simon Gibney.
Donna plays the role of social worker ‘Lucy Doyle’.

WILD MOUNTAIN THYME (PP / 2021)
Feature film directed by John Patrick Shanley.
Donna plays the role of ‘Air Hostess’.

SWEETNESS IN THE BELLY (2019)
Feature film directed by Zeresenay Mehari.
Donna plays the role of Ethiopian immigrant ‘Grace Ture’.
Sweetness in the Belly premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2019.

THE LAST RIGHT (2019)
Feature film directed by Aoife Crehan.
Donna plays the role of ‘Air Hostess’.
The Last Right won the Audience Award at the 2019 Cork Film Festival. 

DUBLIN MURDERS (2019)
Directed by Rebecca Gatward.
Donna plays the role of solicitor ‘Christine Nandy’.

COLD COURAGE (2019)
Directed by Kadir Ferati Balci.
Donna plays the role of social worker ‘Catherine Grant’.

THE STORY OF WATER (2019)
Donna narrates this documentary shown on Virgin Media .
Irish Water Documentary that focuses on the critical value of this most precious natural resource and explores the ongoing threats to its future, both globally and in Ireland. 

ROYALLY EVER AFTER (2018)
Directed by Lee Friedlander.
Donna plays the role of ‘The Countess’.
Hallmark romantic comedy. 

QED (2017)
Directed by Amy-Joyce Hastings.
Donna plays the role of ‘Ali’ in this award winning short film.
Donna won a Best Supporting Actor award for her role as Ali at the 2018 Dublin Underground Cinema Festival. QED was shown on RTE for the month of November 2019 as part of Shortscreen.

HOTEL FOR REFUGEES (2017)
Donna narrates this TV3/BBC Documentary.
In March 2017 the first of around 240 Syrian refugees arrived in Ballaghaderreen, a remote town in the west of Ireland. 

FAIR CITY (2013 – 2017) 
Donna plays the role of Zambian nurse ‘Ama Chisenga’.
Donna’s TV break came in 2013 with the role of Zambian nurse Ama Chisenga on the TV Soap Fair City. 

SINGLE-HANDED ‘THE STOLEN CHILD’  (2010)
Donna plays the role of ‘Court Usher’.
Detective TV series set against a brooding Connemara backdrop.

BITTER SWEET (2008)
Directed by Declan Eames.
Donna plays the role of ‘Ward Sister’.
Dramedy following the lives of three thirty-something Dublin female friends.