
Eleanor Methven
Acting
Biography
Eleanor Methven is an Irish film, television and stage actress. Methven is the co-founder of the Charabanc Theatre Company.
Known For

Normal People
Marianne and Connell weave in and out of each other's lives in this exploration of sex, power and the desire to love and be loved.

Derry Girls
Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.

Titanic: Blood and Steel
Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic.

Little Women
Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, the story follows sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March on their journey from childhood to adulthood. With the help of their mother, Marmee, and while their father is away at war, the girls navigate what it means to be a young woman: from sibling rivalry and first love, to loss and marriage.

Falling for a Dancer
Set in rural Ireland of the 1930s, the story begins when 19-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with an actor and falls pregnant. Community pressure forces her to marry a dull middle-aged man, but maybe there is hope on the horizon.

Lies We Tell
An orphaned heiress is forced to embrace her family's dark legacy.

The Return
A former alcoholic returns home after ten years in prison for the murder of her husband. As her recollection of the murder returns, things take a different turn.

The Boxer
Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old working class neighborhood to resume his life as a boxer.

The Ice Cream Girls
In the summer of 1995, two vulnerable teenage girls are accused of murdering their schoolteacher. For seventeen years, the two girls go their separate ways, Poppy having been charged with the murder. Fast-forward to modern day. Happily married mother Serena is now back in the same seaside town for the first time as she cares for her dying mother Rachel. Poppy is living in quite different circumstances. Having served seventeen years for a crime she still insists she didn’t commit, she has only one thing on her mind… the truth. And if she didn’t kill Marcus, then who did?

The Disappearance of Finbar
A dissatisfied teen disappears from his small town, leaving friends to wonder about his whereabouts.
Filmography
as Dympna
as Mrs. Rusk
as Mary Mulvery
as Eileen the Barflyess
as Bernie
as Judge
as Aunt Bridie
as Hannah
as Miriam Fenton
as Mother
as Liz
as Lady Pirrie
as Rosemary
as Helen Dempsey
as Bernie
as Tilly Harrington
as Patsy
as Pat Flynn
as Dr Cook
as Della McCloskey
as Receptionist