Personal Info
Birth date
1954-03-02 (71 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Ireland
Also known as
Olwen Fouere
Олвен Фуер
Olwen Fouéré
Biography
Olwen Fouéré is an actress and writer/director in theatre, film and visual arts. She was born on the west coast of Ireland of Breton parents Yann Fouéré and Marie-Magdeleine Mauger. In 2020, she was listed at number 22 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Olwen Fouéré, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
The Crown
8.209
Overview:
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.Halo
8.258
Overview:
Depicting an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant, the series weaves deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future.Brassic
8.498
Overview:
A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in suburban northern England. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, their dealing and stealing is catching up with them and a whole load of trouble is heading their way.Derry Girls
8.118
Overview:
Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.Nightflyers
5.706
Overview:
In the year 2093, a team of scientists aboard the Nightflyer, the most advanced ship ever built, embarks on a journey to find other life forms. Their mission takes them to the edge of the solar system, and to the edge of insanity, as they realize true horror isn't waiting for them in outer space—it's already on their ship.The Tourist
6.817
Overview:
When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him.The Feed
6.863
Overview:
In the near future, people’s minds are connected to The Feed, giving them instant connectivity. When something or someone invades it, everyone is at risk.The Watchers
6.401
Overview:
A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night.Texas Chainsaw Massacre
5.196
Overview:
After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic influencers who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town.Tarot
6.456
Overview:
When a group of friends recklessly violate the sacred rule of Tarot readings, they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate and end up in a race against death.The Northman
7.045
Overview:
Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father.Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
6.845
Overview:
Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.Above Suspicion
7
Overview:
Above Suspicion is a British TV series based on Lynda La Plante's novels Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream. It stars Kelly Reilly and Ciarán Hinds, and features the career of La Plante's latest heroine DC Anna Travis. The first series, Above Suspicion, was shown on the fourth and fifth of January 2009; the second series, Above Suspicion: The Red Dahlia, was shown on the fourth, fifth and sixth of January 2010. The third series, Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent, was shown on the third, fourth and fifth of January 2011. The fourth series, Above Suspicion – Silent Scream was shown on the ninth, sixteenth and twenty-third of January 2012; in a break from the previous broadcasts, which were broadcast on consecutive days, this latest tale was serialised weekly. ITV cancelled Above Suspicion on May 28, 2012.Mandy
6.2
Overview:
The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.Cult Killer
6.503
Overview:
A private investigator is forced into a dangerous alliance with a killer in order to uncover a quiet town’s grisly criminal underbelly and clear the name of her mentor, who is implicated in the crimes.Holding
6.444
Overview:
Local police officer Sergeant PJ Collins is a gentle man who hides from people and fills his days with comfort food and half-hearted police work. He is one of life's outsiders, lovable, but lonely and a bit rubbish at his job. When the body of long-lost local legend Tommy Burke is discovered, PJ is called to solve a serious crime for the first time in his career. Unearthing long buried secrets, PJ finally connects with the village he has tried so hard to avoid.Space Truckers
5.415
Overview:
John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be multitude of unstoppable and deadly killer robots.Sea Fever
6.108
Overview:
The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.Sunrise
5.7
Overview:
When an ex-cop named Fallon returns to the scene of a horrific crime, the residents of a rural town soon discover that this dark visitor is really a vampire who feeds on blood and fear. After he is befriended by a kind immigrant family, the instinctive killer is faced with a choice between revenge and redemption.Four Letters of Love
NYR
Overview:
Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other but how will they ever know it? As ghosts, fate and the sheer power of true love pull them together, so too does life threaten to tear them apart.This Must Be the Place
6.994
Overview:
A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.The Actor
6.056
Overview:
Paul Cole finds himself stranded in a mysterious small town with no memory of who he is or how he got here. As bits and pieces of his past slowly emerge, he attempts to find his way home, but time is slippery, appearances can't be trusted, and it's unclear which of his identities is real.Beast
6.541
Overview:
A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.Zone 414
5.324
Overview:
In the near future on a colony of state-of-the-art robots, a private investigator is hired by the colony's creator to bring his missing daughter home.The Survivalist
6.23
Overview:
In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.Falling into Place
6.2
Overview:
A love story set in Scotland and London that follows a romance between Kira and Ian, two 30-somethings who meet while on the run from themselves.She Will
5.5
Overview:
Veronica, an aging film star, retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse Desi to recover from a double mastectomy. While there, mysterious forces give Veronica the power to enact revenge within her dreams.Catching Dust
4.4
Overview:
A criminal husband and his wife hide in a lone trailer. Exhausted by her husbands controlling ways, she decides to leave. But then a trailer arrives with a couple which creates dangerous consequences for them all.Joyride
5.9
Overview:
12-year-old Mully has lost his mother and discovers his debt-ridden father stealing the charity money they've raised in her name. Grabbing the cash, Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy, in the back seat with a baby. A straight-talking solicitor who didn't expect to get pregnant, Joy is struggling with motherhood and planning to give her baby to a friend who will raise the child as her own. She joins Mully on a wild journey across Ireland, stealing cars, hitch-hiking, catching ferries and breaking police barricades.The Drummer and the Keeper
6.7
Overview:
The Drummer and the Keeper tells the story of the unlikely friendship formed between two young men: Gabriel, a reckless young drummer who revels in rejecting society’s rules and Christopher, a 17-year-old with Asperger’s Syndrome, who yearns to fit in. This heartwarming story shows the strength of the human bond in the face of adversity.Acting
TBAThe Irreducible Difference of the Other as Unknown
2025Four Letters of Love as Nora Ni Liathain
2025The Reckoning of Erin Morrigan as Erin Morrigan
2025The Actor as Judge / Old Lady / Neighbor / Wardrobe Woman / Old Man
2024Catching Dust as Copperhead
2024The Watchers as Madeline
2024Tarot as Alma Astryn
2024All You Need Is Death as Rita Concannon
2024Sunrise as Ma Reynolds
2024Cult Killer as Dottie Evans
2023Falling into Place as Judy
2023Radha as Annie
2023The Tower as Unknown
2023Far Calls as Unknown
2022Joyride as Sideline Sue
2022The Ulysses Project as Molly Bloom
2022She Will as Jean
2022The Northman as Áshildur Hofgythja
2022Halo (4 Episodes) as The Mother
2022Holding (4 Episodes) as as Kitty Harrington
2022Texas Chainsaw Massacre as Sally Hardesty
2022The Tourist (6 Episodes) as Niamh Cassidy
2021Zone 414 as Royale
2021Bardo as Unknown
2021The Tide as Night Angler
2020Sea Fever as Ciara
2020Violet Gibson, the Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini as Violet Gibson
2019The Feed (4 Episodes) as Jane
2019Brassic (1 Episode) as Margaret
2019Animals as Maureen
2018Nightflyers (1 Episode) as Connie
2018Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald as Melusine
2018Mandy as Mother Marlene
2018Procession as Unknown
2018Beast as Detective Theresa Kelly
2018Derry Girls (1 Episode) as Sheila
2017Take Me Swimming as Eileen
2017The Drummer and the Keeper as Doctor Assif
2017National Theatre Live: Salomé as Nameless
2017Where is Eva Hipsey? as Voice Actor
2016The Crown (1 Episode) as Oonagh Shanley-Toffolo
2016Traders as Helen Stynes
2015The Survivalist as Kathryn
20134,000-Year-Old Cold Case: The Body in the Bog as Narrator
2011This Must Be the Place as Mary's Mother
2011The Other Side of Sleep as Maggie
2010Artaud on Aran as Unknown
2009Above Suspicion (1 Episode) as Mrs. Hughes
2000Saltwater as Trish Meehan
1996Space Truckers as Building Commander
1986Time After Time as Young Nun
1980The Sleep of Death as Second Maid (as Olwen Fouere)
Directing
2023Far Calls ... Director