Charlie Murphy (actress)

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Charlie Murphy
Born
Charlotte Murphy

Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland
OccupationActress
Years active2009–present

Charlotte Murphy is an Irish actress. She is best known for her role as Siobhán Delaney in the RTÉ drama series Love/Hate, for which she won Best TV Actress at the 2013 Irish Film and Television Award,[1] and Best Actress in a Lead Role at the 2015 Irish Film and Television Awards. She won a further two IFTA awards in 2017, for Best Actress in a Supporting Role as Ann Gallagher in the BBC One drama series Happy Valley, and in 2018 for Best Actress in a Supporting Role as Jessie Eden in the BBC One historical crime drama series Peaky Blinders.[2]

Early life[]

Murphy was born in Enniscorthy, the daughter of hair salon owners Brenda and Pat Murphy. She has five siblings. The family moved to Wexford when she was 12 years old.[1] She trained at the Gaiety School of Acting from 2006 to 2008.[3]

Jessie Eden controversy[]

Charlie Murphy played Jessie Eden in seasons 4 and 5 of Peaky Blinders, a role for which she won a 2018 IFTA award.[2] The character of Jessie Eden was based loosely on the real historical figure of the same name, who was a leading British communist and trade union leader in the city of Birmingham.[4] Although the story and many of its events are fictional and heavily use artistic licence, some people who had known Jessie Eden took offence to the way she was depicted. Graham Stevenson, a historian of British communism, a friend of Jessie Eden and the writer of her biography, was a harsh critic of the show.[5]

"I knew Eden, and as a callow 22-year-old, I didn’t ask the 70-year-old Jessie about her relationships, let alone sex life. But I doubt her private life was as complicated or dramatic as her eponymous character’s. Nor can I see any young woman during the 1920s gratuitously going into a gents’ toilets, as Eden is shown doing, for any reason at all other than life or death. The social values of the programme are ahistorical. It is surely the conceit that Tommy Shelby, the gangster villain-hero of the series, could ever convince a woman like Eden to be wined and dined, let alone be seduced, that finally reveals the true motives of the creators of the programme."[6]

Filmography[]

Film and television[]

Year Title Role Notes
2021 Halo Makee TV series
2020 The Winter Lake Elaine Film
2017–2019 Peaky Blinders Jessie Eden TV series
2019 Dark Lies the Island Sarah Film
2019 The Corrupted DS Gemma Connelly Film
2017 The Foreigner Maggie/Sara McKay Film
2016 Rebellion Elizabeth Butler Mini-series
2016 To Walk Invisible Anne Brontë Film
2015 The Last Kingdom Iseult TV series
2014–2016 Happy Valley Ann Gallagher TV series
2014 Quirke Deirdre Hunt Mini-series
2014 Northmen: A Viking Saga Inghean Film
2014 '71 Brigid Film
2013–2014 The Village Martha Lane / Martha Allingham TV series
2013 Ripper Street Evelyn Foley TV series
2013 Philomena Kathleen Film
2012 Misfits Grace TV series
2010–2014 Love/Hate Siobhan Delaney TV series
2010 Single-Handed Mairead O'Sullivan TV series
2009 The Clinic Natasha Halpin TV series

Stage[]

Year Title Role Notes
2018 The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh Mairead Director Michael Grandage, Noel Coward Theatre
2017 Arlington by Enda Walsh Isla Director Enda Walsh, St Ann's Warehouse, New York[7]
2016 Arlington by Enda Walsh Isla Director Enda Walsh, Black Box Theatre, Galway International Arts Festival[8]
2014 Our Few and Evil Days by Mark O'Rowe Adele Director Mark O'Rowe, Abbey Theatre[9]
2011 Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh Runt Director Cathal Cleary, Young Vic Theatre
2011 Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Eliza Doolittle Director Andrea Ainsworth, Abbey Theatre
Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Actress
2011 Big Maggie by John B. Keane Katie Director Garry Hynes, Druid Theatre Company[10]
2011 The Silver Tassie by Sean O'Caseyy Jessie Taite Director Garry Hynes, Druid Theatre Company, Lincoln Centre, New York[11]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Looby, David (12 February 2013). "Big time charlie wins best actress award". Wexford Echo. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Charlie Murphy awards". IMDb. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Alumnus of the month, Charlie Murphy". The Gaiety School of Acting. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  4. ^ Hokin, Catherine (7 February 2021). "Jessie Eden: Working Class Hero". Historia. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  5. ^ Stevenson, Graham (14 February 2018). "Peaky Blinders and the Real Jessie Eden". Culture Matters. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  6. ^ "Discover the real-life Jessie Eden". Morning Star. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  7. ^ Brantley, Ben (11 May 2017). "Review: The Private Dystopias of 'Arlington' and 'Rooms'". The New York Times.
  8. ^ "Arlington review – dance, art and poetry explode in Enda Walsh's brave new world". The Guardian. 19 July 2016.
  9. ^ "Our Few and Evil Days review – Cusack and Hinds shine through the darkness". The Guardian. 7 October 2014.
  10. ^ "Big Maggie". Druid Theatre Company. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  11. ^ "The Silver Tassie". Druid Theatre Company. Retrieved 6 April 2021.

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