Karen Ardiff

Biography

Karen Ardiff is an Irish actor and writer. Ardiff was born in Dublin and attended Trinity College, Dublin's Samuel Beckett Centre. She has worked as an actress on stage and television as well as in Evelyn and Brooklyn. She has written, In Skagway, her first play, which was produced by Guna Nua Theatre company and won the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Best New Play Award as well as the Stewart Parker/BBC Northern Ireland Award. Her first novel The Secret of my Face came out in 2007.

Known For

Sinners
Sinners
A Terrible Beauty
A Terrible Beauty

Filmography

2024 Bodkin
as Shirley
2020 Mya Go
as Mama Go (voice)
2019 Wastewater
as Catherine
2017 The Bookshop
as Mrs. Deben
2015 Brooklyn
as Mrs. Farrell
2014 Noble
as Chipper Waitress
2013 A Terrible Beauty
as Sarah Hughes
2002 Evelyn
as Sister Felicity
2002 Sinners
as Nuala
1999 This Is My Father
as Young Mrs. Kearney