Maggie Cronin

Career Cronin began her performing career as a singer part of an acapella group, Draylon Underground. Her first acting credit came in 1993 when she appeared in an episode of the ITV procedural drama series The Bill. She then appeared in United, which won a BAFTA TV Award. Cronin then ventured into theatre, writing a one-woman show, A Most Notorious Woman directed by Paddy Scully. It premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1989 and subsequently toured over a number of years through the UK, Ireland and the US. She has since written other productions, including: Ties That Bind, Ten Days That Shook Belfast and Shrieking Sisters: The History Of Ireland’s Suffragist Movement (co-written with Carol Moore). The latter toured throughout Northern Ireland. She was one of nine original regular cast members to be cast on the soap. She commuted from Belfast to Birmingham for the role. Cronin's second one-woman show, Greenstick Boy, directed by Sarah Tipple, previewed at the Brian Friel Theatre in March 2008, as well as the Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2008. It was later performed in Dublin in 2010. The short film The Shore, directed by Terry George, in which she appears with Ciarán Hinds, Conleth Hill and Kerry Condon, won the Academy award in the Short Film, Live Action category at the 84th Academy Awards in February 2012.

Filmography

Stage Ma, The Gift Martha The Kitchen the Bedroom And The Grave M, Greenstick Bo Various roles: Shrieking Sisters Winnie, Happy Days Nora Ryan, Bruised Vadoma, Carnival M, Greenstick Boy Gin, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek Marie, 1974 – The End Of The Year Show Reta, Unless Daisy, Give Me Your Answer Do! Joy Gresham, Shadowlands Titania, A Midsummer Night's Dream Widow Quin, Playboy of the Western World