Hazel Doupe

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Hazel Doupe
Born (2002-11-12) 12 November 2002 (age 19)
Dublin, Ireland
OccupationActress
Years active2013–present

Hazel Doupe (born 12 November 2002) is an Irish actress. She is best known for her breakthrough role as Frances in the 2018 coming-of-age film Float Like a Butterfly.[1]

Early life[]

Doupe was born in Dublin.

Career[]

Doupe started her career as a guest star in the episode Shot Down of the second series of the TV3 drama series Jack Taylor.[2] In 2015, Doupe starred as Wendy Darling/Lucy Rose in the modern day television adaption of Peter Pan, which was broadcast on 26 December 2015 on ITV.[3] In 2017, she starred in Michael Inside.[4]

She is best known for her role as Frances, an Irish Traveller teen who idolises boxing legend Muhammad Ali and trains herself to become a boxer in the 2018 film Float Like a Butterfly, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.[5] On portraying her character in the film, Doupe explained that "The main concern of mine was, it wasn't solely to be amazing in this performance, it wasn't to be good, it was to be true to the character, to present her in a realistic way, my priority was to portray her as a real hero and it's so different to the heroes we see on screen."[6]

In 2021, Doupe portrayed Ingrid in the RTÉ One thriller drama series Smother, which also starred Dervla Kirwan, Niamh Walsh, Seána Kerslake and Gemma-Leah Devereux .[7] In an interview with Entertainment.ie, regards of her casting in the series, Doupe stated:

It was very apparent in the script that Ingrid was really mature and self-assured for her age - she's only 16. To me, she had a lot more life experience than a 16-year-old character in any other script that I had seen would have.[8]

Doupe will star in the upcoming films You Are Not My Mother[9] and The Ulysses Project.

Filmography[]

Television[]

Year Title Role Notes
2013 Jack Taylor Róisín Mangan Episode: "Shot Down"
2013 Ripper Street Flower Girl Episode: A Stronger Loving World
2015 Peter and Wendy Wendy Darling/Lucy Rose Television film
2017 Into the Badlands Artemis Episode: "Black Heart, White Mountain"
2021 Smother Ingrid Regular

Film[]

Year Title Role Notes
2014 Davin Sonia Short
2016 Property of the State Young Anne Marie
2017 Michael Inside Orla Kerr
2018 Float Like a Butterfly Frances
2019 Calm with Horses Charlie
2021 The Green Sea Kid
2021 You Are Not My Mother Char
TBC The Ulysses Project The Nymph/The Cat/Cissy Caffrey

References[]

  1. ^ Hegarty, Aine (12 May 2019). "Dublin schoolgirl Hazel Doupe dazzles judges with performance as young boxer in new movie". Irish Mirror. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Jack Taylor: Shot Down". Mubi. 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  3. ^ "ITV announces Peter & Wendy, a 'reimagining' of Peter Pan featuring Paloma Faith". What To Watch. 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  4. ^ Clarke, Donald (5 April 2018). "Michael Inside: An Irish prison drama par excellence". The Irish Times. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  5. ^ Clarke, Donald (9 May 2019). "Float Like a Butterfly: An Irish boxing movie that stirs the blood". The Irish Times. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  6. ^ Brennan, Sinead (13 May 2019). "Float Like A Butterfly's rising star Hazel Doupe on 'whirlwind' so far". RTÉ. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  7. ^ O'Loughlin, Mikie (28 March 2021). "Smother actress Hazel Doupe teases Calum twist after Carl's past exposed". RSVP Live. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  8. ^ "We chat with Hazel Doupe and Thomas Levin about starring in RTÉ's ensemble thriller 'Smother'". Entertainment.ie. 4 April 2021. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  9. ^ Nolan, Paul (31 March 2021). "Hazel Doupe: "I could go on for hours about Irish talent. There's so much and it continues to grow exponentially"". Hot Press. Retrieved 9 July 2021.

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