Maria McDermottroe

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Maria McDermottroe
Born1952or1953(age 71–72) [1]
Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland [2]
OccupationActor
Years activeLate 1970s – present
PartnerJohn Costigan

Maria McDermottroe is an Irish stage and screen actress. She is best known for playing the role of Venetia in Glenroe from 1983 to 2000 and Mrs. Gilhooley in Killinaskully . [3] She has performed in a number of plays on the Irish stage, including Seachange , The Chastitute , A Skull in Connemara , [4] and Moll . [5] [6]

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Early life

McDermottroe was born in Sligo town in the 1950s, one of four children (including writer/director Conor) [2] of Eddie and Nora McDermottroe. [2] [1] [7]

Career

McDermottroe's first theatre role was in a production of The Merchant of Venice featuring Micheál Mac Liammóir and Hilton Edwards. [8]

Her character in Glenroe was introduced in 1995, as, Venetia, the matriarch of the Crosby family. Venetia later divorced and married divorcé Dick Moran. [9] [10]

In Pat Shortt's rural sitcom, Killinaskully , McDermottroe portrayed Mrs. Gilhooley, known for repeatedly not being "in the habit of repeating" herself. [2] [11]

She played crime figure John Gilligan's wife in 2003's Veronica Guerin , a film in which her daughter Gina Costigan portrayed the wife of criminal figure John Traynor. [2]

In 2010, McDermottroe's performance in an Eska Riada production of Frank McGuinness's one-woman play Baglady in the Focus Theatre, was described by Jesse Weaver of Irish Theatre Magazine as a "measured, taught, and ultimately arresting ... portrait of an identity nearly dissolving itself". [12]

In 2017, she played Carmel in Isobel Mahon's Boom?. [13]

Her film credits include John Huston's The Dead , [14] [15] John Erman's The Blackwater Lightship , [16] and The Winter Lake . [17]

McDermottroe was named "Best Actress", at the 2023 Milan Gold March Awards, for her role in The Carer. [18]

Personal life

McDermottroe married John Costigan, future managing director of Dublin's Gaiety Theatre, in 1979, [1] They live in Dún Laoghaire. [19] having first met in 1977. [20] They have two children including actress Gina Costigan. [21] [22]

Filmography

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