Portrait of Ann Skelly

Ann Skelly

Acting

Biography

Ann Skelly is an Irish actress who first came to fame in 2015 with her role as the troubled teenager Rachel Reid in TV3's soap opera/crime drama Red Rock, a role that placed her at the heart of the drama across two seasons. In 2016, she starred as Biddy Lambert in RTÉ's historical drama Rebellion and she appeared as Annie Moffat in the BBC's adaptation of Little Women over Christmas 2017. In 2018, she was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award for best actress for her first film Kissing Candice, in which she played the titular role. Also that year she starred in the adaptation of Eugene McCabe's novel Death and Nightingales alongside Jamie Dornan and Matthew Rhys. In 2021 she played Penance Adair in the TV series The Nevers for HBO.

Born: December 7, 1996

Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland

Filmography

2025
House of Guinness

as Adelaide 'Dodo' Guinness

2025
Four Letters of Love

as Isabel Gore

2025
2022
The Sandman

as Nuala

2022
100 Years of Ulysses

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2021
The Nevers

as Penance Adair

2021
2018
Death and Nightingales

as Beth Winters

2018
Kissing Candice

as Candice

2018
2017
Little Women

as Annie Moffat

2017
Playground

as Hannah Baylor

2016
Rebellion

as Biddy Lambert

2015
Red Rock

as Rachel Reid

2013
Vikings

as Ethelfled