#114 | Kate O'Toole | Actor

This week joining our BRAND NEW host Mia Mullarkey for a very special chat is the incomparable Kate O'Toole. Talking all things Film, Acting, the O'Toole dynasty, John Huston and the amazing Galway Film Fleadh and her work therein, including this years challenging shift online, which reached five million people. Kate is an Actor, introduced to a creative life at a very early age, parented by the renowned Actors Peter O'Toole and Sian Phillips. Kate has appeared in numerous stage and Film productions in a 2006 West End production of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke at the Apollo Theatre, London, and is cast in Channel 4's Forgiven. She appeared in the first and third season of the Showtime series The Tudors as Lady Salisbury. Kate was nominated for Best Actress at the Irish Times Theatre Awards for her role as Eleanor in Rough Magic Theatre Company's production of Terry Johnson's Dead Funny. She won Best Actress UK in the Barclays/Arts Council Theatre Awards for her performance as 'B' in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women (Lyric theatre, Belfast). In 2010 she filmed a remake of Patrice Leconte's classic L'homme du train with Donald Sutherland and U2's Larry Mullen. Her other film credits include The Confusion of Tongues, Hideaways, Possession, Dancing at Lughnasa, Get Well Soon (BBC TV series), Eden, Laughter in the Dark, 32A and John Huston's last film, The Dead, his critically acclaimed adaptation of James Joyce's short story. Minister for Arts, Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan, appointed her to the Irish Film Board in 2013 (Screen Ireland) . She is chairwoman of Ireland's highly acclaimed film festival, the Galway Film Fleadh. Become a patron/Supporter of Fni on: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/fni FNI@Home is back on the 29th of July (TOMORROW, WED) with Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn, Directors of the excellent, Good Vibrations and last years Ordinary Love Featuring Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville. www.WeAreFNI.com Supporting the Children's Ambulance @BUMBLEance Wednesday 29th of July. Sign up now. Please share with a friend or colleague and Share/Subscribe for more content. Available on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. #WeAreFni #YouAreFNI #StaySafe #StayInformed #StayPositive WWW.WEAREFNI.COM