Simone Kirby

Simone Kirby is an Irish actress born on 28 October 1976. She gained recognition for playing Oonagh in Ken Loach's Jimmy's Hall, and has built a varied career across film, television, and theatre. On screen, she portrayed Irene O'Donnell in Peaky Blinders (2014), Marilyn Hull in Notes on Blindness (2016), Tyva Hightopp in Alice Through The Looking Glass (2016), Sr. Grace in Houdini and Doyle (2016), Maria Roche in The Truth Commissioner (2016), Annette Rane in Clean Break (2015), Tracey Moynihan in Love/Hate (2014), and Dolores in Kneecap (2024). She co-wrote and performed in the RTÉ comedy sketch show Meet Your Neighbours in 2011 with P.J. Gallagher, and appeared in Season of the Witch (2011). On stage, she has performed in Dancing at Lughnasa at The Old Vic, Macbeth at Shakespeare's Globe, Molly Sweeney at the Irish Rep in New York and Curve in Leicester, Festen at the Gate Theatre, Mud and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with the Corn Exchange, Don Carlos and The Taming of the Shrew with Rough Magic, and The Tinker's Wedding under Garry Hynes for the Druid Theatre Company's DruidSynge, plus Nuala in The Cavalcaders and Lady Teasle in The School For Scandal at Dublin's Abbey Theatre. As an actor, she performs across mediums and collaborates with directors spanning independent cinema to major theatre institutions. Born a Scorpio, Kirby carries a life-path 7—a numerological signature associated with introspection and depth-seeking [F1, enrichments].