Personal Info
Birth date
1971-06-05 (54 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Corrinshego, Newry, Northern Ireland, UK
Also known as
-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
Doctor Who
7.5
Overview:
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.Unforgotten
7.562
Overview:
London police detectives Cassie Stuart and Sunny Khan investigate historic cold cases involving missing persons, murder and long-hidden secrets.Sex Education
8.237
Overview:
Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.Agatha Christie's Marple
7.694
Overview:
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.New Tricks
7.4
Overview:
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.Killing Eve
8
Overview:
A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.Moving On
7.1
Overview:
Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.Cracker
6.6
Overview:
The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.Ready Player One
7.588
Overview:
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.A Thousand Blows
6.6
Overview:
Hezekiah and Alec, two friends from Jamaica, finds themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London's East End. Here they meet Mary Carr, Queen of an all-female criminal gang known as the Forty Elephants, and run afoul of Sugar Goodson, criminal kingpin and notorious boxer.Small Town, Big Story
7.9
Overview:
A Hollywood production rolls into a small Irish town and throws the spotlight on a secret that's been kept hidden since the eve of the Millennium.Happy Valley
7.9
Overview:
Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild.Save Me
6.5
Overview:
Nelson "Nelly" Rowe's life is turned upside down when he is arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his thirteen-year-old daughter Jody, whom he hasn't seen in ten years. After convincing the police of his innocence, and frustrated with the way the case is progressing, he decides to take matters into his own hands and track down Jody himself.Great Expectations
7.2
Overview:
The life of an orphan is changed by the providential intervention of a mysterious benefactor.Wild Bill
6.5
Overview:
U.S. police chief Bill Hixon lands in the British town of Boston, Lincolnshire, with his 14-year-old daughter Kelsey in tow hoping they can flee their painful recent past. But this unfamiliar, unimpressed community will force Bill to question everything about himself and leave him asking whether it's Boston that needs Bill, or Bill that needs Boston?The Ten Commandments
5.4
Overview:
One biblical figure is revered by Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. His name is Moses, the man who rose in power to defend a people, to free them, and to live in history like no other... The Ten Commandments dramatizes the biblical story of Moses.Pistol
7.6
Overview:
The story of a band of spotty, noisy, working-class kids with “no future,” who shook the boring, corrupt Establishment to its core, threatened to bring down the government and changed music and culture forever.Close to Me
5.588
Overview:
Jo Harding is a woman who has a perfect life with her partner until a fall erases an entire year from her memory. As she struggles to piece events together, Jo discovers that her life was in fact far from perfect.Kings in Grass Castles
10
Overview:
The life of an Irish immigrant family in Australia in the second half of the 19th century. Based on a 1959 book of history by Dame Mary Durack.Chasing Shadows
7.2
Overview:
A socially awkward detective who deals better with data than people is assigned to work on a missing persons unit searching for lost souls.Ivanhoe
6.9
Overview:
The epic tale of the idealistic young knight Ivanhoe and his battle against the evil Templar Bois-Guilbert. Caught between the rivalries and religious struggles are Ivanhoe's betrothed Rowena and the brave, beautiful Jewess healer Rebecca, who wins Ivanhoe's heart with her courage. This grand six-part adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's rousing adventure of the Middle Ages is set against the historical backdrop of a Britain straining under the corrupt rule of Prince John while Richard the Lionhearted fights in the Crusades.Bloodlands
6.816
Overview:
Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance.National Treasure
6.597
Overview:
Paul Finchley is a bona fide "national treasure", one half of a popular, long-running comedy double act. The famous comedian's world is thrown into chaos when he is accused of historic sexual abuse.Amongst Women
6
Overview:
Based on the novel by John McGahern and set in Ireland in the 1950s, the series tells the story of Moran and his children. Especially the girls find it difficult to get away from the influence of their despotic father and start living their own lives.Interview with the Vampire
7.383
Overview:
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.The Change
7.176
Overview:
Linda finds a new lease on life when she learns that she's experiencing menopause. So she heads to the forest on a journey of self-discovery.Ambassadors
6.7
Overview:
Comedy-drama series set in the fictional Central Asian Republic of Tazbekistan where newly arrived British Ambassador Keith Davies is set the task of trying to secure a £2 billion helicopter contract for the United Kingdom.Any Time Now
NYR
Overview:
Nora, Kate, and Stevie have made it into their thirties, they live in Dublin, and they are all aware that the new Millennium has hurtled past, nothing much has changed, and it's about time they got a life. They have a combined age of 99. Between them they have slept with 47 men, broken 11 hearts, drunk approximately 5,000 pints, bought one house, buried two parents, failed one marriage, and produced one baby. They've been friends long enough to think they always will be...Daddy Issues
7
Overview:
After discovering she’s pregnant, hedonistic Gemma flatshares with her hapless father. Together, they have to navigate new friendships, new relationships and face up to parenthood.Apple Tree Yard
6.4
Overview:
What starts out as a simple, reckless mid-life affair between a genetic scientist named Yvonne and a Westminster paper pusher takes an intriguing turn when she realizes he’s a spook – then suddenly gets very dark indeed. A provocative study of obsession, longing and just how far down a criminal path desire can take you.Acting
2025Small Town, Big Story (2 Episodes) as Jemima Rowlands
2025A Thousand Blows (3 Episodes) as Jane Carr
2025Bring Them Down as Peggy
2024Daddy Issues (2 Episodes) as Davina
2023The Change (12 Episodes) as Agnes
2022Pistol (1 Episode) as John's Mum
2021Close to Me (6 Episodes) as Cathy
2021Here Are the Young Men as Lynn Connolly
2021Bloodlands (1 Episode) as Heather Pentland
2019National Theatre Live: Faith, Hope & Charity as Beth
2019Downton Abbey as Miss Lawton
2019Wild Bill (1 Episode) as Angie
2019Ups and Downs as Fionnuala
2019Sex Education (1 Episode) as Tara Gibbs
2018Killing Eve (2 Episodes) as Anna
2018Ready Player One as Alice
2018Save Me (6 Episodes) as Stace
2017Bad Day for the Cut as Frankie Pierce
2017The Secret Scripture as Nurse
2017Apple Tree Yard (4 Episodes) as Susannah
2016National Treasure (4 Episodes) as Christina Farnborough
2016Away as Angie
2015Unforgotten (6 Episodes) as Liz Baildon
2015Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain as Herself (uncredited)
2014Chasing Shadows (2 Episodes) as Dr. Ellesmere
2014Common as Margaret Ward
2014Here and Now as Lucy
2014Happy Valley (2 Episodes) as Alison Garrs
2013Ambassadors (3 Episodes) as Caitlin
2012The Secret of Crickley Hall (2 Episodes) as Lili Peel
2011Great Expectations (2 Episodes) as Molly
2011Hideaways as Mrs. O'Mara
2011Monroe (12 Episodes) as Unknown
2010The Scouting Book for Boys as Sharon
2010The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister as Isabella Norcliffe
2009The Race as Katey Kensay
2009Holy Water as Geraldine Gaffney
2009Moving On (1 Episode) as Tina
2009The Unloved as Lucy's Mother
2009City Rats as Gina
2007Elizabeth: The Golden Age as Annette
2007A Woman in Winter as Marianne
2007The Robber Bride as Charis White
2006Someone Else as Lisa
2006Soundproof as Penny
2006The Ten Commandments (2 Episodes) as Miriam
2005Duane Hopwood as Gina
2005Doctor Who (1 Episode) as Angstrom
2005Mickybo and Me as Torch Woman
2004Agatha Christie's Marple (1 Episode) as Sybil Stamfordis
2004Enduring Love as Rachel
2004School of Life as Miss Given
2004Bodies (6 Episodes) as Maria Orton
2004Burst as Maxwell's Fan 1
2004New Tricks (1 Episode) as Claudia Scott
2003Red Roses and Petrol as Catherine Doyle
2003Bye-Child as Woman
2003Casa de los Babys as Eileen
200316 Years of Alcohol as Mary
2002Any Time Now (6 Episodes) as Stevie McCutcheon
2001Mapmaker as Jane Bates
2001Morlang as Ann Morlang
2001Dumping Elaine as Beth
2001Sweet Revenge (2 Episodes) as Madelaine Adair
2001Happy Now as Tina Trent
2001Il gioco as Corinna
2001From Hell as Liz Stride
2000Beautiful Creatures as Dorothy
2000Nora as Nora Barnacle
1998Waking Ned as Maggie O'Toole
1998Amongst Women (4 Episodes) as Maggie
1998Kings in Grass Castles (2 Episodes) as Sarah
1997Downtime as Chrissy
1997A Royal Scandal as Caroline of Brunswick
1997Ivanhoe (6 Episodes) as Rebecca
1996Truth or Dare as Mel
1995The Perfect Match as Erica
1995Dangerous Lady as Unknown
1994Interview with the Vampire as Paris Vampire
1994The Secret of Roan Inish as Selkie
1993Cracker (3 Episodes) as Tina
1992Running Late as Receptionist 2