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      Michelle Fairley

      Michelle Fairley

      Highest Rated: 91% Philomena (2013)

      Lowest Rated: 9% Chatroom (2010)

      Birthday: Jul 11, 1963

      Birthplace: Coleraine, Northern Ireland, UK

      Michelle Fairley rode a career as an accomplished journeyman actor to that rarest of show business phenomena, a signature breakthrough role for an actress in her mid-40s, with her turn as an intrepid noblewoman on HBO's sumptuous sword-and-sorcery hit "Game of Thrones" (2011- ). A native of Northern Ireland, Fairley transplanted to London and found consistent work in the theater and bit television roles in the 1990s. By the late years of the decade, she landed some higher-profile television work, including a lead in the Belfast-set BBC comedy "Safe and Sound" (1996). Her theatrical career took an upturn in 1997 when she landed the female lead in the Conor McPherson play "The Weir," which began in London and jumped the Atlantic for a successful Broadway run. Her stage imprimatur grew in the early 2000s, reaching critical mass with a flurry of lauded stage performances, notably her Olivier Award-nominated performance in Michael Grandage restaging of Shakespeare's "Othello" in 2007 and her scene-stealing turn in Frank McGuinness' "Greta Garbo Came to Donegal." Though her stage successes rarely translated to bigger screen presence - her highest-profile project being her turn as Hermione's mother in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1" (2010) - that would change with her winning the role of Catelyn Stark, a tentpole heroine of HBO's "Game of Thrones." Led by her distinctively huge, expressive eyes, Fairley was revealed to international audiences as one of British theater's best-kept secrets.

      Highest rated movies

      Philomena
      Hidden Agenda
      The Others
      Small Things Like These
      Nobody Has to Know
      Anton Chekhov's The Duel
      The Invisible Woman
      Hideous Kinky

      Photos

      24: Live Another Day, Michelle Fairley (L), Emily Berrington (R), 'Day 9: 1:00 PM-2:00 PM', Season 1, Ep. #3, 05/12/2014, ©FOX Resurrection, Kurtwood Smith (L), Michelle Fairley (R), 'Revelation', Season 2, Ep. #1, 09/28/2014, ©ABC Suits, Patrick J Adams (L), Michelle Fairley (R), 'Unfinished Business', Season 3, Ep. #3, 07/30/2013, ©USA Suits, Michelle Fairley, 'Unfinished Business', Season 3, Ep. #3, 07/30/2013, ©USA Suits, Michelle Fairley, 'Conflict Of Interest', Season 3, Ep. #4, 08/06/2013, ©USA Resurrection, Kurtwood Smith (L), Michelle Fairley (R), 'Revelation', Season 2, Ep. #1, 09/28/2014, ©KSITE Resurrection, Michelle Fairley, 'Will', Season 2, Ep. #5, 10/26/2014, ©ABC Resurrection, Michelle Fairley, 'Will', Season 2, Ep. #5, 10/26/2014, ©ABC Rebellion, Michelle Fairley, 04/24/2016, ©SC Resurrection, Kurtwood Smith (L), Michelle Fairley (R), 'Echoes', Season 2, Ep. #2, 10/05/2014, ©KSITE Resurrection, Michelle Fairley (L), Kyle Secor (R), 'Afflictions', Season 2, Ep. #6, 11/02/2014, ©KSITE Resurrection, Michelle Fairley, 'Aftermath', Season 2, Ep. #9, 12/07/2014, ©ABC IN THE HEART OF THE SEA, (aka HEART OF THE SEA), from left: Ben Whishaw, as Herman Melville, Michelle Fairley, 2015. ph: Jonathan Prime/©Warner Bros. IN THE HEART OF THE SEA, (aka HEART OF THE SEA), Michelle Fairley, 2015. ph: Jonathan Prime/©Warner Bros. IN THE HEART OF THE SEA, (aka HEART OF THE SEA), from left: Ben Whishaw, as Herman Melville, Michelle Fairley, Brendan Gleeson, 2015. ph: Jonathan Prime/©Warner Bros. Resurrection, Michelle Fairley, 'Will', Season 2, Ep. #5, 10/26/2014, ©KSITE Resurrection, Michelle Fairley (L), Devin Kelley (R), 'Echoes', Season 2, Ep. #2, 10/05/2014, ©ABC Resurrection, Michelle Fairley, 'Echoes', Season 2, Ep. #2, 10/05/2014, ©ABC Resurrection, Michelle Fairley (L), Devin Kelley (R), 'Echoes', Season 2, Ep. #2, 10/05/2014, ©ABC Resurrection, Matt Craven (L), Michelle Fairley (R), 'Echoes', Season 2, Ep. #2, 10/05/2014, ©ABC

      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      83% No Score Yet Small Things Like These Unknown (Character) - 2024
      No Score Yet 78% An Irish Goodbye Grainne (Character) - 2022
      83% No Score Yet Nobody Has to Know Unknown (Character) - 2021
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Edith Shelia (Character) - 2016
      43% 54% In the Heart of the Sea Mrs. Nickerson (Character) $23.1M 2015
      No Score Yet No Score Yet I Am Here Mother (Character) - 2014
      No Score Yet 38% Montana DCI Rachel Jones (Character) - 2014
      17% 8% Ironclad: Battle for Blood Joan De Vesci (Character) - 2014
      77% 67% The Boy With the Cuckoo-Clock Heart Brigitte Heim (Voice) - 2013
      76% 44% The Invisible Woman Caroline Graves (Character) $1.2M 2013
      91% 89% Philomena Sally Mitchell (Character) $37.7M 2013
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Cup Cake Annie McNabb (Character) - 2010
      9% 35% Chatroom Rosie (Character) - 2010
      81% 66% Anton Chekhov's The Duel Marya (Character) - 2009
      No Score Yet 62% A Short Stay in Switzerland Mrs. Savery (Character) - 2009
      No Score Yet 60% Ahead of the Class Unknown (Character) - 2005
      84% 77% The Others Mrs. Marlish (Character) $13.5K 2001
      No Score Yet 89% Births, Marriages and Deaths Pat (Character) - 1999
      66% 60% Hideous Kinky Patricia (Character) - 1998
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Vicious Circle Frances (Character) - 1998
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Cast a Cold Eye Frances (Character) - 1998
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Inspector Morse: The Way Through the Woods Cathy Michaels (Character) - 1995
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Life After Life Roisin Donaghy (Character) - 1995
      86% 72% Hidden Agenda Teresa Doyle (Character) $69.2K 1990

      TV

      Credit
      95% 73% Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story Princess Augusta (Character) 2023
      86% 78% Gangs of London Marian Wallace (Character) 2020 2022
      57% 70% The Feed Meredith Hatfield (Character) 2019
      84% 65% Fortitude Freya Lennox (Character) 2017-2018
      76% 86% The White Princess Margaret Beaufort (Character) 2017
      40% 84% Rebellion Dolly Butler (Character) 2016
      50% 67% The Lizzie Borden Chronicles Aideen Trotwood (Guest Star) 2015
      53% 70% Resurrection Unknown (Guest Star) 2014-2015
      87% 87% 24 Unknown (Guest Star) 2014
      91% 87% Suits Ava Hessington (Guest Star) 2013
      89% 85% Game of Thrones Lady Catelyn Stark (Character) 2011-2013
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Lark Rise to Candleford Unknown (Guest Star) 2009