Lesley Conroy (born ) is an Irish actress, director and screenwriter. She is known for her parts in ''

Fair City ''Fair City'' is an Irish television soap opera which has been broadcast on RTÉ One since 1989. Produced by the public service broadcaster RTE, it first aired on Monday, 18 September 1989. It has won several awards and is both the most po ...

'' and '' Mattie''.

Background

Conroy is a fluent Irish speaker from

County Cork County Cork () is the largest and the southernmost Counties of Ireland, county of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, named after the city of Cork (city), Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster ...

. She graduated from

University College Cork University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) () is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork (city), Cork. The university was founded in 1845 as one of three Queen's Universit ...

in 1993 with a BA in English and French. and is a graduate of

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tra ...

centre.

Career

In 2008 Conroy featured in the film ''Eden''. She came to prominence opposite

Pat Shortt Patrick Shortt (born 12 December 1967) is an Irish actor, comedian, writer, and entertainer. His role in the 2007 film '' Garage'' led to him receiving the IFTA for Best Actor. He is most notably remembered for his role as Tom in the television ...

in ''Mattie''. She worked with Shortt again in the 2013 feature '' Life's a Breeze''. She joined the cast of ''Fair City'' in 2017. She starred in the short film ''Cleaner'' which she wrote and directed.

Writing

Conroy won the Scripts Ireland short film script competition in 2020 for ''Cleaner''.

Filmography

References

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* * Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Alumni of University College Cork Living people Actors from County Cork Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Irish actresses 21st-century Irish actresses {{Ireland-bio-stub