Eva Birthistle

In 1995, she got her first TV role as Regina Crosbie in the serial Glenroe. She stayed for three years until 1998. She was offered her first feature film in 1997, All Souls’ Day by Alan Gilsenan. She played a variety of roles in Irish films, including Drinking Crude (1997),[3] co-starring Colin Farrell, and TV movie Miracle at Midnight (1998), with Mia Farrow. In 2002, Eva appeared in Sunday, a dramatization of the events of Bloody Sunday written by Jimmy McGovern.[3]

In 2003, she appeared in the TV series Trust before starring as Roisin Hanlon in the Ken Loach movie Ae Fond Kiss… (2003–04), which won her the 2005 London Critics Circle Film Award as “British Actress of the Year”. She appeared in Breakfast on Pluto, Imagine Me & You and Save Angel Hope (by Lukas Erni) in 2005, and in Brian Kirk’s Middletown in 2006. She starred as human rights lawyer Jane Lavery in the TV conspiracy drama The State Within, and played Rosaleen in the Taken at the Flood episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot in 2006. In late 2007, she featured as Rembrandt’s wife Saskia van Uylenburg in the historical drama, Nightwatching by Peter Greenaway.