Niamh McGrady | |
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Born |
Niamh McGrady 4 October 1982 Castlewellan, County Down, Northern Ireland |
Residence | Hackney, London |
Education | Assumption Grammar School, Ballynahinch |
Alma mater | Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama |
Occupation | Actress |
Home town | Castlewellan |
Niamh McGrady (born 4 October 1983) is a film, stage and television actress from Castlewellan, County Down, Northern Ireland. She is perhaps better known for her part as Mary-Claire Carter in Holby City and Danielle Ferrington in the psychological thriller The Fall.
Born and raised in Castlewellan, Co. Down, she attended Assumption Grammar School, Ballynahinch, County Down. From age 18 she trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.
After landing a role in Summer 2003 in Italy, on graduation she joined a Welsh production of Romeo and Juliet and then pantomime in Belfast, before moving to London for Northern Irish playwright Lisa McGee's production of Girls & Dolls. McGrady then featured in a production of the Shakespeare play Macbeth, starring Patrick Stewart. After a critically acclaimed run in London's West End, it then relocated to Broadway, New York City in 2008.
On return to London, she made her television début in the George Best biopic Best: His Mother's Son in 2009, but her part was eventually removed in the cutting room. Shortly afterwards she joined the cast of Holby City as a cast semi-regular, in the role of nurse Mary-Claire Carter.