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Entertainment
Sandra Mallon

Actress Eve Hewson set to receive the prestigious Wilde Card Award

Actress Eve Hewson is set to be honoured at the Oscar Wilde Awards in California in March.

The 31-year-old eldest daughter of U2 frontman Bono will receive the Wilde Card Award, which is typically presented to "rising talent who may not yet be a household name, but who we expect will be".

The first such award was presented in 2010 to a young Saoirse Ronan.

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Trina Vargo, President of the US-Ireland Alliance, said that “the Wilde Card has been used to bring attention to rising talent who may not yet be a household name, but who we expect will be.”

The annual awards ceremony is held by the US-Ireland Alliance to celebrate the contribution Ireland makes to film, television, and music. It takes place during the build-up to the Oscars.

Irish band The Coronas will also perform on the night, it has been announced.

The 2023 awards are scheduled for Thursday 9 March at Bad Robot, the Santa Monica production company of JJ Abrams and Katie McGrath.

She joins fellow Irish actors Jessie Buckley and Kerry Condon as a 2023 Oscar Wilde Awards honouree. Irish band The Coronas will perform at the ceremony.

Hewson's other credits include the series Behind Her Eyes and The Knick and the films Robin Hood and Bridge of Spies.

Previous recipients of Oscar Wilde Awards include Jamie Dornan, Mark Hamill, Jim Sheridan, Chris O'Dowd, Colin Farrell, Caitriona Balfe, Ruth Negga, Sarah Bolger, Lenny Abrahamson, Saoirse Ronan, Brendan Gleeson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Neil Jordan.

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