Acting
Apr 22, 1987
Ennis - County Clare - Ireland
Kelly Gough
Acting
Biography
Kelly Gough is an Irish actress, best known for her role as Kate Kelly in the RTÉ series Raw. From 2019 to 2020, she appeared in the BBC medical drama Casualty as Violette Spark. Gough's first professional acting role was with the Yew Tree Theatre production of Falling out of Love, written by John Breen and directed by Mikel Murfi. She has subsequently appeared in productions including Big Love for the Abbey Theatre, The Playboy of the Western World for the Druid Theatre Company, All in the Timing for Inis Theatre and Extremities for Spark to a Flame. Later theatre work includes Lady Macbeth in Macbeth directed by David Horan, Elizabeth in Don Carlos directed by Gadi Roll Her 2018 role as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Chelsea Walker, was described by The Times described as "a name-making performance". Gough's extensive television credits include season 3 of Marcella for ITV and Netflix, Shadow and Bone, Strike Back, Call the Midwife, Broadchurch, The Fall, Vera, the Irish language series Scúp (for which she was nominated for the Actor of the Year Award at the Oireachtas Irish language media awards) The Clinic, This is Nightlive, and Raw. She has also appeared in the feature-length films Kill Command and Out of Innocence. Short film credits include Cry Rosa and Taking Stock, for which she was nominated Best Actor in a Female Role at the Richard Harris International Film Festival. From 2019 to 2020, she appeared in the BBC medical drama series Casualty as Violette Spark, the sister of established character Ruby Spark (Maddy Hill). Also in 2020, Gough starred as Stacey in the third series of Nordic noir detective series Marcella.
Feature Films (5)
After a one-night stand with another man, a married farmer attempts to hide the affair from his family as the truth drives him to breaking point.
Bad Boy Buck
Aoife Ni Bhraoin returns home to help her father Brendan ‘The Bear’ O’Briain in his recovery from a heart attack. During this time, Aoife faces the grief of her mother that she hasn’t dealt with until now. Aoife reacquaints with a group of rowers and this all-female team, who against the odds, take on a high stakes Naomhóg rowing competition.
Tarrac
Set in a near future, technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines. Against this backdrop an elite army unit is helicoptered to a remote, off-the-grid island training facility. What starts out as a simple training exercise for Captain Bukes and his tight-knit unit, descends into a terrifying battle to the death, as the marines discover the island is overrun by an enemy that transcends the human concept of evil.
Kill Command
A music obsessed mixed-race girl questions her identity when she becomes the victim of bullying in 1980s Belfast.
Cry Rosa
After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did not commit and is charged with murder.
Out of Innocence
Television & Series (9)
In a world cleaved in two by a massive barrier of perpetual darkness, a young soldier uncovers a power that might finally unite her country. But as she struggles to hone her power, dangerous forces plot against her. Thugs, thieves, assassins and saints are at war now, and it will take more than magic to survive.
Shadow and Bone
Brighton based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job, but his career is currently at rock bottom. He’s fixated by the disappearance of his beloved wife, Sandy, and running enquiries into long forgotten cold cases with little prospect of success. Following another reprimand for his unorthodox police methods, Grace is walking a career tightrope and risks being moved from the job he loves most.
Grace
The lives and loves of the young staff who work in a successful Dublin restaurant and the intense friendships and bitter rivalries that blossom in the heat of the kitchen.
Raw
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
Vera
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
