Noeleen Comiskey

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Noeleen Comiskey
OccupationActress
Years active2006–present
Website www.noeleencomiskey.me

Noeleen Comiskey is an actress who played the recurring character of Marta Shirovs in EastEnders . [1] [2] Other television roles include Sarah Webb in Casualty, Hayley Nichols in Doctors and Nathalia Volkov in Legends, starring Sean Bean. She has also previously appeared in Law & Order: UK and The Bill . [3]

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Career

Noeleen Comiskey has appeared in a number of television programmes including Big Train , Law & Order:UK, Casualty , Doctors and Legends . From 2014 to 2015, she played Marta Shirovs in the BBC One soap Eastenders. The character was the wife of Aleks Shirovs (Kristian Kiehling) and originally appeared with their daughter Ineta (Gledisa Osmani) before all three ultimately return to Latvia together.

She has appeared in a number of films including The Search for Simon, Winter Ridge and The Angel of Auschwitz in which she starred as Stanislawa Leczenska.

In 2019, she played the dangerous Ms M in the feature film Criminal Audition , which premiered at FrightFest 2019, and for which she received positive reviews. [4] [5]

She appears in the 2021 film The Obscure Life of the Grand Duke of Corsica, starring Timothy Spall.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2012A Bit Older and a Little Bit TallerWaitressShort film
2013Project KronosClare FrishluftShort film
2013The Search for SimonEloise Eldritch
2014I.R.I.S.Mission Control officerShort film
2014Snake PitZoe 'CJ' HunterShort film
2015The Song Plays OnAliceShort film
2016SpacemanDoreen
The DependentsThe Boss
2017ImagineerJoseph's MotherShort film
The BeyondJessica Johnson
2018 Winter Ridge Jane Evans
The Guard of AuschwitzAngel
2019The Angel of Auschwitz Stanisława Leszczyńska
A Secret JourneyProtester 1Short film
Criminal Audition [6] Ms M
2021The Obscure Life of the Grand Duke of Corsica [7] Lucy
2022 Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher Violet

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2001 The Armando Iannucci Shows Fran
2002 Big Train Dr Schtein
2009 The Bill Clara NowakEpisode: "Psychiatric Help"
2010 Law & Order: UK AmberEpisode: "Anonymous"
2014-2015 Eastenders Marta Shirovs 7 episodes
2015 Casualty Sarah WebbEpisode: "Knock Knock Who's There?"
Doctors Hayley NicholsEpisode: "Milk"
Legends Nathalia VolkovEpisode: "The Legend of Alexei Volkov"
2017The DesertBrenda6 episodes
Casualty Karla WarringtonEpisode: "Binge Britain"
2023Doctors Amy Jenson Episode: "Tender Sting" [8]

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  7. Comiskey, Noeleen (16 December 2019). "Phenomenal director Daniel Graham (Opus Zero starring Willem Dafoe) sent me this beautiful still of the wonderful @ali_cook & I from #featurefilm The Obscure Life of the Grand Duke of Corsica starring Timothy Spall & Peter Stormare. Cant wait for you to see it. #grateful #pic.twitter.com/15YcqLcIY8". @NoeleenComiskey. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
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