Caroline Grace-Cassidy (née Caroline Grace) is an
Irish film and television actress, screenwriter, and author of seven novels. She is also known as a TV panelist.
Career
Grace's first major acting role was as Miss Mull in ''Custer's Last Stand Up'', a
BAFTA
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-winning children's television series, and she later acted in a range of Irish domestic and international releases, including work with
Jim Sheridan
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.
She is best known for her role in
David Gordon Green
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's comedy fantasy film ''
Your Highness
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''. She became a full-time novelist and screenwriter in 2011.
Her debut novel, ''When Love Takes Over'', was released by
Poolbeg Press on 7 February 2012.
The Irish Times
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newspaper named Grace-Cassidy on their list of ''People to Watch'' in 2012.
Since then she has published ''The Other Side Of Wonderful'' (2013), ''I Always Knew'' (2014), ''Already Taken'' (2015), ''The Week I Ruined My Life'' (2016), ''The Importance Of Being Me'' (2017), and ''Bride Squad Runaway'' (2019) with U.K. publishers
Black & White Publishing, with ''The Unforeseen Love Story Of Lexie Byrne'' due in 2021.
Grace-Cassidy has been a regular panelist with
''Midday'', later renamed ''The Elaine Show'', on TV3, now Virgin Media One, since 2012.
She is a creative director at Document Films and a co-founder of the TV and film house Park Pictures.
She has written eight short films: ''Princess Rehab'' (2013), Galway Fleadh-winning ''I AM JESUS'' (2014), ''Torn'' (2014), ''Even Droids Have Friends'' (2015),
Cineuropa Award-winning ''Love At First Light'' (2015), ''Blackbird'' (2016), ''Reach'' (2017), and ''Run'' (2019). She is the co-writer of ''The Quiet Woman'', which is currently in development with Park Films, supported by Screen Ireland.
As of 2016, Grace-Cassidy's seventh novel, ''Bride Squad Runaway'', was being adapted as a television drama, and a film adaptation of her fifth novel, ''The Week I Ruined My Life'', was announced in 2017.
Personal life
Grace-Cassidy is married to Kevin, with two daughters as of 2016.
References
External links
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Official Facebook page
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Irish television actresses
Irish film actresses
Irish writers
Living people
Actresses from County Dublin
Writers from County Dublin