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Eithne Dunne (30 October – 21 December ) was an Irish stage and screen actress....
Eithne Dunne
Irish actress (1919–1988)
Eithne Dunne (30 October 1919 – 21 December 1988) was an Irish stage and screen actress.[1]
Career
She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.[2] She first started acting in Dublin and made her first appearances at the Abbey Theatre in 1939.
Career.
She remained there for most of the 1940s. In the 1950s she performed at the Gate Theatre, after which she made her first appearance on Broadway.
In 1960 she took part in the highly successful Abbey touring production of The Playboy of the Western World.
In the mid-1960s she was resident and performed in a number of plays at the Bristol Old Vic, including Henry V, Othello, All In Good Time and The Rivals.[2]
Although primarily a stage actress, she appeared in a number of TV series and motion pictures, including Shake Hands with the Devil, Dementia 13, and others.
Later life and death
In 1942, she married the actor-playwright Gerard Healy, who die