Orla Fitzgerald

Orla Fitzgerald is an Irish actress for stage and screen for over 25 years. Most recently she has been embracing her Cork heritage in the role of Orla in The Young Offenders.

Training and early career Fitzgerald took drama classes in Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, placed there by her mother, who thought she was perhaps too shy. “It was a 90-minute workshop on a Saturday morning, where we did improv and plays. It was all about fun and being creative and I loved it,” the actress has said. This Ebony Bird, Blood in the Alley Theatre Company, Ballydehob, Ireland The System; The Project, Raw Productions, Dublin The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish; The Ark, Dublin Playboy of the Western World; Royal Exchange, Manchester A Town Called F**cked; Last Serenade Theatre Company Macbeth; Second Age Theatre Company, Dublin A Quite Life; Peacock Theatre, Dublin Who's Breaking?; Graffiti Theatre Company, Cork Laodamia; Merlin International Theatre, Budapest Disco Pigs; Corcadorca Theatre Company, Cork Othello; Everyman Theatre, Cork The Beauty Queen of Leenane; Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith), London (2021)

Selected radio career Enda Walsh’s 4 Big Days in the Life of Dessie Banks