GERALDINE MCALINDEN

Height: 5ft 3ins
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Brown
Playing Age: 46-56

TRAINING

2023 - Masters in Screenwriting for Film and Television at the National Film School at IADT
2021 – Reel Voices London and British Equity - Voiceover Workshop
2021 - Blue Raincoat Theatre Academy Voice Workshop and Blue Raincoat Theatre Academy Movement Workshop '21
2020 & 2021 - Actors Comedy Studio, LA, Weekly Advanced online Screen Acting Masterclasses in acting for sitcoms and TV and Masterclasses on the Heroes of Comedy Archetypes
2017 - Theatre Lovett actor training at the Abbey Theatre
2017- Actors Comedy Studio LA at Filmbase – Comedy Essentials for sitcom and TV
2016 - Selected as one of 16 actors to participate in Filmbase inaugural 6 week Close Up professional development programme for actors
2012-2013 - The Factory, Dublin (now Bow Street Academy), Inaugural Screen Acting Programme, 1 year
2006 - Screen Acting Training with Margie Haber
2002-2014 - The Attic Studio weekly workshops 2007-2012 - The Focus Theatre, The Stanislavski Acting Studio, Dublin 2003 – Screen Acting with John Cantwell 2000-2002 - Gaiety School of Acting


FILM & TV

COMPANY PART PRODUCTION DIRECTOR
Mná Mná Marian *Verdigris Patricia Kelly
Kilbarna Dance Project DAC Trumbella Trad Lance Daly
Monumental Television Mallory Maryland Susan Tully
Wee Buns Olive Buckley The Last Rifleman Terry Loane
Merman/Apple TV Maureen Bad Sisters Dearbhla Walsh
HTM Productions Counsellor Bloodlands Jon East
Subotica Mary Prender Aisha Frank Berry
Samson Films Garda Catherine Carty Safe as Houses Mia Mullarkey
TW Films Eileen Vote Mattie Brian Deane
Pale Rebel Films Marian **Sucking Diesel Sam McGrath
Studio Lamberts, BBC Kindly Shop Assistant Three Families Alex Kalymnios
Sadie Reavey Reavey Brothers John Reavey
Element 8 / Shinawil Flora Mountford Miss Scarlet and the Duke Declan O’Dwyer
Out of Orbit Anna The Appointment David Moody
Underdog Directions Chipper Woman Troubled Times Jared Crowelle
Film Venture Mrs Fitzgerald Lily Graham Cantwell
Lynn Larkin Solicitor The Bridge Mark Smyth
Out of Orbit/Canderblinks Film & Music Surgeon Ordinary Love Lisa Barros D’Sa/Glenn Leybum
TV3 Patricia Blood Hannah Quinn
925 Productions Barfly Procession Jeda De Brí
Filmbase Mrs Hutchinson First Disco Friends Helen O’Reilly
IADT Mrs Mordrake I Am Not A Monster Grace Quilligan
Filmbase Mary Writing Home Nagham Abboud/Alekson L. Dall’Armellina/Miriam Velasco
Squad Productions Jennifer Fix Me Tom Moran
RTÉ/Blinder Films Minister for Justice Striking Out Lisa James Larsson
Burma Shave DAC Organic Certification Clerk Dark Lies The Island Ian Fitzgibbon
Fastnet/IFB Mrs Houston Black 47 Lance Daly
Zoo Films Pete’s Mum Zoo Colin McIvor
TV3 Dr. Laura Martin Red Rock Niall Fallon
Fantastic Films Mother May Eye Crone Wood Mark Sheridan
Apollo Media/Ferndale Films Sr. Mary The Secret Scripture Jim Sheridan
Big Fish Films/Samson Films Mrs O’Kane The Truth Commissioner Declan Recks
RTE Mrs. Boyle Spooky Stakeout Ruth Treacy
Filmbase Katherine How To Be Happy Mark Caster/Michael Costine/Brian O’Neill
Stirling Film and Television Productions Nursing Sister Scúp Declan Recks
Organ Hill Films Lizzie Murphy ***Portrait of a Zombie Bing Bailey
A New Starfish Enterprise Miss Carey The Incredible Shrinking Office (Short) Stephen Kane
Fox Glove Films Post Mistress Anton Graham Cantwell
TV3 June Carol The Guards Graham Cantwell
IADT Nurse Lucy Judge The Christmas Ward (Short) Allyn Quigley
IADT Receptionist Bright Idea (Short) Vincent Gallagher
Tiger Aspect/BBC Receptionist Murphy’s Law Colm McCarthy

* Winner of the Audience Award for Best Irish Film at Newport Beach Film Festival 2023/Winner of Best Independent Feature film at the 2023 Galway Film Fleadh/Winner of Best Narrative Feature film at the Kerry International Film Festival 2023

**Nominated as Best Actress Villa Mayor De Cine 2022

***Longlisted for an IFTA for Best Leading Actress in a Feature Film

THEATRE

VENUE/COMPANY PART PLAY DIRECTOR
The Abbey Theatre/The 24 Hour Play Company, NYC Bobby Jo The 24 Hour Plays, Dublin Aoife Spillane Hinks
Shiva Productions Marie The F Word – Food of love Aoibhinn Gilroy
Some Yank’s Theatre Company, Smock Alley Grace Nightshift Emily Foran
The Magistorium May Oblong Midnight in Nightown Lisa Byrne
Dick Walsh Theatre, Smock Alley Various One Day Dick Walsh
Smock Alley Theatre Doreen Remember to Breathe Orla Murphy
The New Theatre Katie Friendly Fire Anthony Fox
Channel Changers, Dublin Fringe The Blind Woman Storytaker Patrick Bridgeman
Spare Room Theatre, Smock Alley Karla Wonder of the World Eoin Gannon
The Attic Studio/Fiasco Productions Mammy The Cripple of Inishmaan Geraldine McAlinden
The Attic Studio, Dublin Fringe Various Spoonfed Graham Cantwell
Fiasco Productions, Andrews Lane & The Civic Charlotte Beyond Therapy Mark Nagle
Observatory Lane Productions, The Civic Catherine Laundru/The Cook Lonely Hearts Paul Keely
Nuvo Productions, Theatre @36 Chorus The Three Birds Antoinette Duffy

 

 

SKILLS

Voiceover, Comedy, Directing, Full Driving Licence, Tin Whistle (Basic), Horseriding (Basic), Qualified Solicitor (Ireland, England & Wales and Northern Ireland) and Mediator, Reiki Master, Wedding Celebrant