Bairbre Dowling

Bairbre Dowling (27 March 1953 – 20 January 2016) was an Irish actress.

Born in Dublin as Barbara Patricia Dowling, the daughter of actor Vincent Dowling and actress Brenda Doyle, who died in a car crash in 1981. She has three sisters, Louise, Valerie, and Rachel, and a step-brother, Cian.^[1] She was married from 1982 to 1994,^[2] to actor Colm Meaney,^[3] with whom she had a daughter, Brenda, in 1984.^[4]

Dowling worked with her husband in the PBS television film, Playboy of the Western World in 1983,^[5] in John Huston's 1987 film The Dead,^[6] and in the 1994 drama, War of the Buttons.^[7]

In 1970 she was part of the Abbey Theatre where she appeared in " The Becauseway^[8]" 1970 and "Rites^[9]" 1973.

In 2011 she appeared in a play "Temporal Powers^[10]" by Irish Playwright Teresa Deevy, this was a Mint Theatre^[11] production presented as part of the Teresa Deevy project.

Filmography

Film

• Zardoz (1974)
• Cry of the Innocent (1980) television film
• Playboy of the Western World (1983) television film
• The Long Journey Home (1987) television film
• The Dead (1987)
• War of the Buttons (1994)
• Changing Habits (1997)

Plays

• Girl in Rites (1973)
• Girl in The Becauseway (1970)
• Temporal Powers (2011)

Television

• Murder, She Wrote (1995)
• ER (1997)
• Star Trek: Voyager (2000)
• Crossing Jordan (2003)
• Days of Our Lives (2007)

References

External links

• Bairbre Dowling at the Internet Movie Database
• Bairbre Dowling at the Teresa Deevy Archive
• Bairbre Dowling at Mint Theatre Company
• Bairbre Dowling at The Abbey Theatre Archive
• Obituary