Hazel Doupe

Hazel Doupe is an Irish actress. She made her breakthrough in the coming-of-age film Float Like a Butterfly. Her films since include You Are Not My Mother (2021). On television, she is known for her role in the FX series Say Nothing (2024).

Life and work Doupe was born in Dublin. She started her career as a guest star in the episode "Shot Down" of the second series of the TV3 drama series Jack Taylor. 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. In 2017, she starred in Michael Inside.

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. 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."

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. In an interview with Entertainment.ie, regards of her casting in the series, Doupe stated:

Doupe starred in You Are Not My Mother and The Ulysses Project.

She is the voice of Melinda in the Adult Swim series Unicorn: Warriors Eternal.

Filmography

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 2020 Kathleen Was Here Kathleen short film2021 The Green Sea Kid You Are Not My Mother Charlotte "Char" Delaney 2022 The Ulysses Project The Nymph/The Cat/Cissy Caffrey 2023 The Miracle Club Cathy Dunne 2024 Kathleen Is Here Kathleen feature length follow-up to Kathleen Was Here

Television