A dynamic performance specialist that adapts personas and delivers compelling character-driven content across multiple collaborative projects.
Born near Dublin, she joined the Abbey Players there at the age of 14. She made her film debut in Kicking The Moon Around (1938) and her Hollywood debut as the gypsy Esmerelda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939). Over the next three decades she appeared as a swashbuckling spitfire in such adventure films as The Black Swan (1942) and At Sword’s Point (1952). Often cast as a fiery woman tamed by a man, she was a favo…