Gabrielle Reidy (23 July 1960 – 13 October 2014) was an Irish actress, who appeared in multiple plays at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin from 1971 to 2012.

[1] She studied modern languages at Trinity College Dublin, as Ireland had no professional acting qualifications at the time.

[3] Reidy's first acting appearance was in 1971, at the age of 11,[5] in a performance of Seán O'Casey's The Shadow of a Gunman at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

[4] Reidy played the mother of Greit (Scarlett Johansson) in the film Girl with a Pearl Earring.

[6] On British television, she starred in Doctors, Waking The Dead, Holby City, Out of Hours, Scott & Bailey, The Bill, and Prime Suspect.

[6] Reidy met her husband, actor Gary Lilburn, whilst performing Desire Under the Elms in 1995.