Meet the Irish actress who’s on course to be the next Saoirse Ronan and take Hollywood by storm.
Mullingar native Niamh Algar has been listed by Bafta & Netflix in their top 20 rising stars list for Breakthrough Brits 2019.
The rising star has been chosen among the best in movies, games and television.
The stunner first rose to fame in 2017’s Without Name.
This year the 29-year old wowed audiences with her role in the BBC gritty drama, The Virtues.
Niamh stars in the new science fiction TV series, Raised by Wolves, directed by the legendary Ridley Scott, starring alongside Abubakar Salim, who is also on the Breakthrough Brit list.
The pair play two androids tasked with raising human children on a strange and mysterious planet.
The trailblazer admitted she’s happy to be on the right path and honoured at the Bafta nod.
Niamh told RTE Entertainment: “It’s just a lovely thing to get the nod to know that you’re on the right path and doing something right.”
The actress admitted she let the cat out of the bag in a charming way.
She added: “I was working on another film at the time when I saw the email and did the classic thing - rang my mum and told her.
“But she had me on loudspeaker so it was her and all her mates in a car! Then I read the embargo which said, ‘Don’t tell anyone’ and I had to ring her back!”
Algar paid tribute to The Virtues’ writer-director Shane Meadows for inspiring her in her career.
She added: “I think that (working on The Virtues) has been a massive learning curve, in the sense of working in this industry and the things that you pick up and especially working with Shane.”
Niamh has also featured in Channel 4’s new series ‘The Bisexual’ starring Desiree Akhavan and Maxine Peake, Pure alongside Joe Cole of Peaky Blinders fame.
The BBC political thriller ‘MotherFatherSon’ starring Helen McCrory, Richard Gere, and Billy Howle, saw the actress play a former soldier in Northern Ireland.
The West Meath beauty returns to the big screen opposite Dublin actor Barry Keoghan in Calm With Horses.
The film, which was shot on the west coast of Ireland last year, is being produced by Film4 and Michael Fassbender’s DMC Films.
She will also feature in Deadpan Pictures new dramedy The Last Right, which releases later this year.
