Gina Costigan
Gina Costigan | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1983 or 1984 (age 40–41)[1] |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | Early 2000s – present |
Gina Costigan is an Irish actress, who has trained in the US and performed on the US, UK and Irish stage.[1]
Early life
[edit]Costigan is the daughter of former Gaiety theatre managing director, John Costigan, and Glenroe and Killinaskully actor Maria McDermottroe.[2][3][4][5][6]
Career
[edit]A scholar of the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts,[2] she has performed in short films,[7] radio dramas,[8] stage plays in Ireland, the UK and the US,[9][10] television series such as Vikings and films such as Becoming Jane.[11][10]
She played crime figure John Traynor's girlfriend in 2003's Veronica Guerin, a film in which her mother, Maria McDermottroe, portrayed the wife of criminal figure John Gilligan.[12]
In 2016, she played in the Irish Repertory Theatre's new play Crackskull Row. [13][14]
In 2018, she played Mollie Mae, the daughter of Hayley Mills' Carmel, in the Amanda Bearse-directed off-Broadway "Party Face" (formerly Boom?,[15] written by Isobel Mahon,[16] before becoming part of the ensemble cast in the Broadway production of The Ferryman.[17]
In 2019, she again performed with her mother in Michael Scott's adaptation of The Valley of the Squinting Windows which premiered in the Mullingar Arts Centre.[18]
In 2023, she played Dolly in a new play Dublin Noir in the Irish Arts Center on 11th Avenue, Manhattan.[19] Later in 2023, she played Grace in a UK touring production of Brian Friel's Faith Healer.[20][21]
Accolades
[edit]She was named among "40 under 40" by The Irish Echo in 2019.[8]
Filmography
[edit]- 2023 - Suspicious Minds, Lola (short film)[22]
- 2022 - My Sailor, My Love, Joyce[23]
- 2019 - Vikings, Runa (drama series, 3 episodes)[11]
- 2007 - Becoming Jane Caroline[10]
- 2003 - Veronica Guerin, Traynor's girlfriend[12]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Another act in family drama". Independent.ie. 3 September 2012.
- ^ a b Smith, Andrea (13 January 2014). "Bondings: Beyond the curtain call at the Gaiety". Independent.ie.
- ^ Jackson, Joe (25 December 2005). "Happy? Oh, yes he is!". Independent.ie. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ "The Blackwater Lightship". IFI.ie.
- ^ "John Costigan The CV". Independent.ie. 14 December 2003.
- ^ McDermott, Peter (11 January 2018). "Women's time to shine in 'Party Face'". IrishEcho.com.
- ^ "Article: Transcontinental Restlessness and Daily Trauma in Short Film Suspicious Minds". FilmIreland.net. 14 December 2024.
- ^ a b "Costigan, Ruddy for radio version". IrishEcho.com. 19 August 2021.
- ^ "Gina Costigan: 'The Irish have a tendency towards darkness'". CambridgeIndependent.co.uk. 2 November 2023.
- ^ a b c Jackson, Joe. "Markievicz park". Hotpress.com.
- ^ a b "Gina Costigan". TVGuide.com. 13 May 2008.
- ^ a b O'Donoghue, Anne (21 March 2018). "Actress Maria McDermottroe on pursuing her passion". FarmersJournal.ie. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ Webster, Andy (16 September 2016). "Review: 'Crackskull Row,' an Irish Gothic With Masher, Basher and Rasher" – via Nytimes.com.
- ^ "Crackskull Row". IrishRep.org.
- ^ Soloski, Alexis (25 January 2018). "Women Beyond the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown". New York Times. Gale A524722009 – via Gale General OneFile.
- ^ "It's Her Party - CURVE". 9 February 2018.
- ^ "Complete Casting of The Ferryman Is Announced". BroadwayDirect.com. 4 September 2018.
- ^ "Michael D to attend 'Valley' premiere". WestmeathExaminer.ie. 12 November 2019.
- ^ "Love on the brink of war". IrishEcho.com.
- ^ "Review: Faith Healer". WinchesterToday.co.uk. 15 November 2023.
- ^ "'One of the greatest plays of the 20th century - Brian Friel's 'Faith Healer' - for Millennium Forum stage this week". Derry JournalDerryJournal.com. 9 October 2023.
- ^ "McDermott for 92nd Street Y". IrishEcho.com.
- ^ "My Sailor, My Love movie review (2023)". RogerEbert.com.
