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Niamh Walsh (born April 17, 1988) is an Irish actress.[1]

Career

She is best known for her role as Cara Martinez the in BBC One medical drama Holby City. Walsh also appeared in Casualty and Jekyll and Hyde. She starred in the Sky 1 period drama Jamestown as Verity Rutter née Bridges.[1] Before production, Walsh stated that she "researched a lot for this role. I love all that stuff. Bill [Gallagher] used real people as the basis for some of his characters. And by reading books about the period you learn little things that even if the audience doesn’t see it, it adds to your performance."[2]

In 2021, Walsh appeared alongside Dervla Kirwan, Seána Kerslake and Gemma-Leah Devereux in the RTÉ One thriller drama series Smother, in which she portrayed Jenny, the eldest Ahern sibling.[3][4] In an article with the Irish Independent, Walsh shared her interest in portraying one of the powerful and independent woman in the series, as stated:

It took long enough, but people are sort of realising that women are just as complicated as men. We contain multitudes. There aren’t just three types of women out there… It’s so comforting to see that we’re sort of just being allowed. We’re being allowed the complexity that men have been allowed for years. We are no longer being jammed into boxes.[5]

On 26 May 2021, Walsh was cast in the Netflix adaptation of DC Comics's The Sandman, portraying the young Ethel Cripps.[6][7]

Filmography

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2013 Casualty Hannah Spence Episode: "Smoke and Mirrors"
2015 Jekyll & Hyde Maggie Kendall Episode: "The Cutter"
2015–2016 Holby City Cara Martinez 45 episodes
2017–2019 Jamestown Verity Rutter 24 episodes
2019, 2023 Good Omens Greta Kleinschmidt 2 episodes
2020 The English Game Martha Almond 6 episodes
2021–2023 Smother Jenny Ahern 18 episodes
2022 The Sandman Young Ethel Cripps 3 episodes
2023 Wreck Devon Deveraux 6 episodes
TBA Dead and Buried Lena McAllister Upcoming four-part thriller[8]

Audio

Year Title Role Author Production company Notes
2021 The Sandman: Act II Nuala Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs Audible [9]

Stage

Year Title Role Location
2013 Middlemarch Rosamond The Orange Tree Theatre
2014 The Man Who shot Liberty Valance Hallie Jackson Park Theatre

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