Róisín Gallagher is an actress and playwright from Andersonstown, West Belfast. A graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), her screen credits include The Fall, The Dry, The Lovers, Lazarus and Netflix’s How to Get to Heaven from Belfast. She played Shiv Sheridan in The Dry and Janet Dunlop in The Lovers, earning BAFTA and Irish Film & Television Awards nominations. Her theatre work includes productions at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre.
Against the backdrop of 1994 Northern Ireland, Skintown turns youthful rebellion into a riotous, razor-sharp portrait of a generation desperate to escape. Mick Jordan reviews the Hitchcock Audience Award for Best Feature Film at Dinard British and Irish Film Festival.
Gemma Creagh reviews this true story which tells the story of a terminally-ill father as he attempts to find a new home for his young son.