Emma Eliza Regan
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Emma Eliza Regan
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Emma Eliza Regan 4th December 1992 Connemara, County Galway, Ireland |
| Occupation | Actress, journalist and model. |
| Years active | 2007–present |
Emma Eliza Regan is an Irish actress.
Regan trained as a classical ballet and contemporary dancer with Alan Foley, Artistic Director of Cork City Ballet. She is a member of The Actors Studio, Factory, Dublin, a renowned dynamic creative hub where industry leaders mentor future industry leaders working alongside Lance Daly, Shimmy Marcus, John Carney and Jim Sheridan.
Regan made her screen début in the award winning Ivan Kavanagh horror Tin Can Man opposite Michael Parle which went on to win several international awards prior to its worldwide release.
She made her stage debut at The Abbey Theatre as Mollser in a Wayne Jordon production of The Plough and The Stars.
In her late teens, she became known for her role of Fiona on RTÉ drama Aisling's Summer Diary - TV Series created by Dublin-based CR Entertainment which won the best international Teen TV Movie at Kidscreen New York in 2010.
Brave and precocious performances in independent films followed including Our Wonderful Home,The Fading Light (winner of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival), Tin Can Man (awarded as Boundary Breaking Best Feature at the Sydney Underground Film Festival and Melbourne Underground Film Festival).
Recent work includes the leading role in fantasy film The Shadows, based on a George MacDonald dark fairytale and directed by Colin Downey,. with the Irish Film Board, which premiered at Galway Film Fleadh.
She played schoolgirl Cathy in Love Eternal, directed by Brendan Muldowney which has been adapted from the Japanese novel Loving The Dead by prolific horror author Kei Oishi (The Grudge). Love Eternal won the Fresh Blood Award at the inaugural Black Bear Film Festival in Warsaw. The film premiered earlier in 2013 at the Galway Film Fleadh and has screened at over at over fifty festivals and markets worldwide, including Sitges and Busan, one of the largest film festivals in Asia. Love Eternal was produced by Conor Barry, Morgan Bushe and Macdara Kelleher for Fastnet Films, with Luxembourg co-producers Red Lion, Dutch co-producers Rinkel Film and TO Entertainment from Japan, with support from the Irish Film Board, the Film Fund Luxembourg and the Netherlands Film Fund. French company Reel Suspects are handling world sales for Love Eternal. It is on European release in 2014.
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