Allie Byrne

Allie Esiri
Alma mater	St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Occupation	Anthologist, app creator

Allie Esiri (born 1967), née Allie Byrne, is a British writer and former stage, film, and television actress. She created iF Poems, an educational poetry app, the accompanying hardback anthology iF: A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every Possibility, and The Love Book, both an interactive literary app on iOS and Android and a hardback book of best-loved poems, quotations, and letters on the theme of love. Her new hardback anthology, published by Macmillan on 8 September 2016 is titled A Poem for Every Night of the Year.

Esiri read Modern and Medieval Languages at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where she appeared in numerous productions, including an acclaimed production of Cyrano de Bergerac, directed by Sam Mendes, starring Tom Hollander and which also featured future politician Nick Clegg. Byrne's first major television role was in the Agatha Christie's Poirot adaptation of The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1990. In 1992 she played Olivia in an English Shakespeare Company production of Twelfth Night directed by Michael Pennington. She later appeared in episodes of The Bill, Goodnight Sweetheart, Men Behaving Badly, A Touch of Frost and Van der Valk. In 1995, she played Lady Kiely in the television movie Sharpe's Battle, alongside Sean Bean and Hugh Fraser, with whom she had previously appeared in the Agatha Christie's Poirot adaptation of The Mysterious Affair at Styles. She played one of the lead parts in the ITV series Call Red (1996). She also appeared in the Merchant Ivory Productions film, Howard's End and the Kenneth Branagh film In the Bleak Midwinter. In 1999 she played Teri Riley in the film Doomwatch: Winter Angel. Other acting credits include Dr Faustus at Greenwich Theatre.

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