Karen Ardiff

Biography

Karen Ardiff is an Irish actor and writer. Ardiff was born in Dublin and attended Trinity College, Dublin's Samuel Beckett Centre. She has worked as an actress on stage and television as well as in Evelyn and Brooklyn. She has written, In Skagway, her first play, which was produced by Guna Nua Theatre company and won the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Best New Play Award as well as the Stewart Parker/BBC Northern Ireland Award. Her first novel The Secret of my Face came out in 2007.

Most Known For

Bodkin

as Shirley

Brooklyn

as Mrs. Farrell

Acceptable Risk

as Forensics Officer Bridget MacNally

Mya Go

as Mama Go (voice)

The Bookshop

as Mrs. Deben

Storyland

as Catherine

Evelyn

as Sister Felicity

Sinners

as Nuala

Noble

as Chipper Waitress

This Is My Father

as Young Mrs. Kearney

A Terrible Beauty

as Sarah Hughes

Wastewater

as Catherine