Actor

Karen Ardiff

Dublin, Ireland

Karen Ardiff is an Irish actor and writer. Ardiff was born in Dublin and attended Trinity College, Dublin's Samuel Beckett Centre. She has worked as an actress on stage and television as well as in Evelyn and Brooklyn. She has written, In Skagway, her first play, which was produced by Guna Nua Theatre company and won the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Best New Play Award as well as the Stewart Parker/BBC Northern Ireland Award. Her first novel The Secret of my Face came out in 2007.

Notable work

7.3
Brooklyn (2015)
as Mrs. Farrell
6.5
The Bookshop (2017)
as Mrs. Deben

Often works with

Fiona Glascott
2 titles together
Brooklyn, This Is My Father
Eva Birthistle
2 titles together
Brooklyn, Noble
Nigel O'Neill
2 titles together
The Bookshop, Storyland
Charlie Kelly
2 titles together
Bodkin, Acceptable Risk
Aidan Quinn
2 titles together
Evelyn, This Is My Father
Stephen Rea
2 titles together
Evelyn, This Is My Father

Full filmography · 11

The Bookshop
as Mrs. Deben
20176.5
Brooklyn
as Mrs. Farrell
20157.3
Noble
as Chipper Waitress
20146.4
A Terrible Beauty
as Sarah Hughes
2013
Evelyn
as Sister Felicity
20026.4
Sinners
as Nuala
2002
This Is My Father
as Young Mrs. Kearney
1999