Ger Ryan is an Irish film and television actress, whose credits include Queer as Folk, Family, The War of the Buttons, The Van, Moll Flanders, Intermission and Little Dog.[1] [2]
Ryan has twice been nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for Family and Amongst Women,[3] and received several nominations in the Irish Film and Television Awards, including for Amongst Women, Intermission and The Return. She is also a recipient of a Belfast Telegraph EMA Award in for her work on A Place with the Pigs and Song of the Yellow Bittern. In 2007, she received an IFTA for her work on the two-part docu-drama, Stardust, by RTÉ.[4] [5] She also played Margie McEvoy in the BBC drama series, The Street.[6] She later played the role of Maeve Harte in RTÉ's drama series, Raw, and that of Mary Carroll in the 2013 romantic comedy, The Callback Queen.[7]
| 1988 | The Courier | Assistant in Jewellers | ||
| 1991 | The Commitments | Pawnbroker | ||
| 1994 | War of the Buttons | Fergus' Mum | ||
| 1996 | The Van | Maggie | ||
| 1996 | Moll Flanders | Orphanage Woman | ||
| 1997 | Driftwood | Woman | ||
| 1999 | A Love Divided | Anna Walsh | ||
| 2003 | Intermission | Maura | ||
| 2005 | Frozen | Elsie | ||
| 2007 | Exodus | Batya Mann | ||
| 2008 | Dorothy | Eileen McMahon | ||
| 2009 | Happy Ever Afters | Bridie | ||
| 2010 | Five Day Shelter | Jackie | ||
| 2012 | Keys to the City | Jo | ||
| 2013 | Hummingbird | Mother Superior | ||
| 2013 | The Callback Queen | Mary Carroll | ||
| 2013 | The Food Guide to Love | Anna | ||
| 2014 | Love, Rosie | Alice Dunne | ||
| 2017 | The Man Who Invented Christmas | Mrs. Dickens | ||
| 2019 | Rialto | Kathleen |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Fair City | Bernie Kelly | Episode #1.1 | |
| 1994 | Family | Paula Spencer | 4 episodes | |
| 1996 | Kavanagh QC | Maggie Warwick | Episode: "A Sense of Loss" | |
| 1997 | Plotlands | Grainne Mulligan | 6 episodes | |
| 1998 | Amongst Women | Rose | 4 episodes | |
| 1999 | Oliver Twist | Mrs Sowerberry | 1 episode | |
| 1999, 2000 | Queer as Folk | Margaret Jones | 2 episodes | |
| 2000 | Forgive and Forget | Ruth O'Neil | Television film | |
| 2000 | Deceit | Molly Sinclair | 2 episodes | |
| 2000–2005 | Fat Friends | Aisling Rymer | 3 episodes | |
| 2001 | Shades | Efa Sullivan | Episode #1.2 | |
| 2001–2002 | On Home Ground | Maureen Fitzpatrick | 5 episodes | |
| 2002 | No Tears | Siobhan Cassidy | Miniseries | |
| 2002 | Clocking Off | Maggie / Shirley | Episode: "Gary's Story" | |
| 2002 | Sinners | Niamh | Television film | |
| 2003 | The Clinic | Ann Connell | Episode #1.6 | |
| 2003 | The Return | Maggie Lynch | Television film | |
| 2005 | Malice Aforethought | Constance Torr | ||
| 2006 | Stardust | Christine Keegan | 2 episodes | |
| 2006–2009 | The Street | Margie McEvoy | 6 episodes | |
| 2007 | Damage | Liz Maher | Television film | |
| 2007 | Prosperity | Vera | 2 episodes | |
| 2010–2013 | Raw | Maeve Harte | 18 episodes | |
| 2011 | The Body Farm | Teresa Quinn | Episode #1.6 | |
| 2012 | Hit & Miss | Claire | ||
| 2018–2019 | Little Dog | Sylvia Ross | 15 episodes | |
| 2020 | The South Westerlies | Noreen | 6 episodes | |
| 2021 | Three Families | Kathleen Nolan | 2 episodes |