Aedin Moloney
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| Born | 5 July 1968 Dublin,Ireland |
| Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin |
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Aedín Moloney(born 5 July 1968)[1]is an American andIrishTV,Theatreand Film actress and producer. She was born inDublin,Ireland.She is the founder and producing artistic director of New York's Fallen Angel Theatre Company. She is the daughter of musicianPaddy Moloney.
After graduating from the Samuel Beckett Theatre Centre inTrinity College Dublin,she made her professional debut as Mollser in theGaiety Theatreproduction ofThe Plough and the Starsby Sean O'Casey, directed byJoe Dowlingand starringDonal McCann.
In 1997 she played Maggie inITV's British television adaptation ofCatherine Cookson'sThe Moth,directed byRoy Battersbyand co-starringJack Davenport.In 1998 she appeared as Sue Ellen Grogan in theBBC TVseriesBallykissangeland, in 2000, in the role of Eva Joyce in the movieNoraco-starringEwan McGregor.Her US television roles have included Tracey inLaw and Order: Criminal Intentin 2003, Sister Mary Michael in Stephen Soderbergh's The Knick for Cinemax (2015) and the role of Mum in The Exorcist for Fox TV (2017).
She has appearedoff-Broadwayat TheIrish Repertory Theatre's productions ofSame Old Moon(1995),Juno and the Paycock(1995),Shadow of a Gunman(1999),Eclipsed(2000),Pigtown(2001),Playboy of the Western World(2001) and the 20th anniversary production ofDancing at Lughnasa(2012) and The Dead 1904 (2016) at the American Irish Historical Society. Playwright Barbara Hammond wrote a one-woman play for Moloney:Eva the Chaste,which premiered off-Broadway in 2011 with Fallen Angel Theatre Company.[2]She also played the role of Dora in the US premiere ofAirswimmingby British playwrightCharlotte Jones,produced by TheIrish Repertory Theatreand Fallen Angel Theatre Company.[3]She also starred as Morag in the off broadway premiere of When I was a Girl I used to Scream and Shout by Sharman Macdonald with Fallen Angel Theatre Company (2016).
In 2013 she received a Best Actress award from the New Jersey Footlights for her role asGeorge Eliotin the world premiere ofA Most Dangerous WomanbyCathy Tempelsmanat TheShakespeare Theatre of New Jersey,[4]directed by Tony winnerRichard Maltby.In 2014 she returned to the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ to play Dol Common inThe AlchemistbyBen Jonson,[5]adapted and directed by Bonnie Monte.
She is the daughter of artistRita O'Reillyand musician/composerPaddy MoloneyofThe Chieftains,[6]with whom she has collaborated on a full length audio recording of Molly Bloom's soliloquy fromUlyssesbyJames Joyce,released on iTunes in June 2017.[7]
References
[edit]- ^Beattie, Jilly (15 October 2007)."Making music is as essential to me as breathing".Daily Mirror.[dead link]
- ^Carter Brown, Chloe (10 July 2011)."Eva the Chaste (Review)".New York Theatre Review.Retrieved17 November2014.
- ^Gates, Anita (27 January 2013)."Solace in a Sea of Insanity".The New York Times.Retrieved17 November2014.
- ^"A Woman Whose Passion Made Her Dangerous (Published 2013)".The New York Times.
- ^Nutt, Bill (1 August 2014)."'The Alchemist' in Madison ".MorristownDaily Record.Retrieved17 November2014.
- ^Irish Echo article on Paddy Moloney and his daughter Aedin Moloney[permanent dead link]
- ^Farragher, Mike (20 June 2013)."Aedin Moloney's on her love of 'Ulysses' at annual Bloomsday celebrations on Wall Street".IrishCentral.Retrieved17 November2014.
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