Ruth McGill
Known for ActingGlentogher, Donegal, Ireland
Ruth McGill is an actress, singer, and singing coach from Donegal. She graduated with a BA in Acting Studies from the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin.
She is currently starring in The Borrowers at the Gate Theatre.
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She also recently played the role of Kate there, in the Gate’s critically acclaimed production of Dancing at Lughnasa, directed by Caroline Byrne.
Her theatre credits include performances in Furniture (Druid Theatre Company); Assassins, The Constant Wife, Romeo and Juliet, The Threepenny Opera, and Sweeney Todd (Gate Theatre); Let the Right One In, Jimmy’s Hall, Anna Karenina, Donegal, Twelfth Night, Alice in Funderland, Christ Deliver Us!, The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant, The Cherry Orchard (The Abbey Theatre); Dubliners, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, FREEFALL (Corn Exchange Theatre Company); The Dead Opera (Performance Corporation); The Requiem for The Truth (Collapsing Horse Theatre Company); Stoker (Ouroboros); Macbecks (Olympia Theatre); All in The Timing (Inis Theatre); Everybody Loves Sylvia, Drowned World, and The Illusion (Randolf SD).
She was twice nominated for The Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in The Threepenny Opera and FREEFALL.
Ruth’s film and television credits include At Sea, KIN, Dead Happy, Nowhere Fast, Miscalculation, Jack Taylor, Damo and Ivor, Wonder House, What Richard Did, Love/Hate II, Leap Year and The Clinic.
