Kathy Rose O'Brien[1] is an actress from Dublin, Ireland, who has appeared in the Irish television drama Whistleblower, which dealt with the controversial events at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda relating to obstetrician/gynecologist Michael Neary, and in theatre productions including Leaves, The Burial at Thebes, The Birthday Party, The Fall of Herodias Hattigan and The Plough and the Stars.
She holds a BA (Hons) in Drama and Theatre Studies from The Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2006.
One of her favourite roles was lifting Molly Allgood, the heroine of best-selling author Joseph O'Connor's novel Ghost Light, off the page in numerous performances to celebrate the Dublin UNESCO event One City One Book.
Television credits include Chasing Shadows (ITV), George Gently (BBC) and The Legend of Longwood which screened at the Irish Film Festival in Boston, USA.
Kathy Rose has just devised and curated one of the first exhibitions at the new Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) in Dublin, on 20th century Irish novelist Kate O'Brien.
In 2007, O'Brien appeared in the Druid Theatre Company production of Leaves, written by the Belfast playwright and novelist Lucy Caldwell and directed by Garry Hynes.