Portrait of Karen Ardiff

Karen Ardiff

Acting

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.

Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland

Filmography

2024
Bodkin

as Shirley

2020
Mya Go

as Mama Go (voice)

2017
The Bookshop

as Mrs. Deben

2015
Brooklyn

as Mrs. Farrell

2014
Noble

as Chipper Waitress

2013
A Terrible Beauty

as Sarah Hughes

2009
Storyland

as Catherine

2002
Evelyn

as Sister Felicity

2002
Sinners

as Nuala

1999
This Is My Father

as Young Mrs. Kearney