
Susan Lynch
Biography
Susan Lynch (born 5 June 1971) is an actor from Northern Ireland.
She is known for her role in the 2003 film 16 Years of Alcohol. Her other film appearances include Waking Ned Devine (1998), Nora (2000), Beautiful Creatures (2000), and From Hell (2001). Lynch was born in 1971 in Corrinshego, County Armagh, Northern Ireland to an Italian mother (from Trivento) and an Irish father. She has four siblings; her eldest brother is actor John Lynch. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Lynch has won three Irish Film and Television Academy Awards, including Best Leading Actress for her work in the film Nora, about Nora Barnacle and her husband, Irish author James Joyce. She also won the British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2003 film 16 Years of Alcohol. In 2020, she was listed as number 42 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
Filmography

Bring Them Down
2025
as Peggy

Here Are the Young Men
2021
as Lynn Connolly

Lost Lives
2019
as Self (voice)

National Theatre Live: Faith, Hope & Charity
2019
as Beth

Downton Abbey
2019
as Miss Lawton

Ups and Downs
2019
as Fionnuala

Ready Player One
2018
as Alice

Bad Day for the Cut
2017
as Frankie Pierce

The Secret Scripture
2017
as Nurse

Away
2016
as Angie

Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain
2015
as Herself (uncredited)

Common
2014
as Margaret Ward
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Here and Now
2014
as Lucy

Hideaways
2011
as Mrs. O'Mara

The Scouting Book for Boys
2010
as Sharon

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
2010
as Isabella Norcliffe

The Race
2009
as Katey Kensay

Holy Water
2009
as Geraldine Gaffney

The Unloved
2009
as Lucy's Mother

City Rats
2009
as Gina

Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
as Annette

A Woman in Winter
2007
as Marianne

The Robber Bride
2007
as Charis White

Someone Else
2006
as Lisa