Breige Roche Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Breige Roche
Acting
Biography
Breige is a Northern Ireland based actor who studied Drama and Performing Arts at Manchester University. Since turning professional in her mid forties, she has built up an impressive back catalogue of work and has appeared in many TV and film productions including Bloodlands, Game Of Thrones, The Truth Commissioner, Line of Duty and Messiah V “The Rapture”. She was also lead in the award winning Northern Ireland Fire safety advertisement “NEXT”. Before turning her attention to film and television in 2004, Breige was a leading member of the acclaimed amateur drama group, the Lifford Players. During her years with the group she performed in major Irish theatres including the Opera House, the Lyric, the Abbey and the Olympia. She has won multiple awards and critical acclaim over the years including Best Actress at the Ulster Finals in the Grand Opera House. Dublin theatre critic, John Finnegan, described her performance as Marie in Translations as “one of the finest in modern Irish drama”.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust
The true story of the notorious paedophile priest Brendan Smyth, and how one family in Belfast, aided by journalist Chris Moore, uncovered the true extent of the clerical abuse scandal.
Omagh
The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.
The Truth Commissioner
Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. Eager to make good as a peacemaker, the Prime Minister urges a commission following the South African model of Truth and Reconciliation. But, though Stanfield starts bravely, he quickly uncovers some bloody and inconvenient truths about those now running the country; truths which none of those in power are prepared to have revealed.