Tara Fitzgerald
As an actress, Tara has starred in Brian Helgeland’s Legend, Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings and Daniel Espinosa’s Child 44, as well as TV projects In the Club, The Musketeers and Game of Thrones.
In 1990, only months after graduating from Drama Centre London, Tara was cast opposite Adrian Dunbar in Peter Chelsom’s Hear my Song. She came to international attention in 1993 when she starred with Hugh Grant in Sirens (John Duigan). The film landed her an Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Actress in a Lead Role. Two years later she again appeared with Grant in the comedy The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain (Christopher Monger). She appeared in a steady stream of independent feature films through the 90’s and 2000’s, among them: A Man of No Importance (Suri Krishnamma), Brassed Off (Mark Herman) playing alongside Ewan McGregor and Dark Blue World (Jan Sverak).
Well-known for her TV role as Dr Eve Lockhart in BBC’s Waking the Dead and spin-off series The Body Farm, Tara is a veteran of more than twenty television films and series including: Jane Eyre, The Virgin Queen, The Woman in White, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Vacillations of Poppy Carew and Sir Peter Hall’s The Camomile Lawn.
Her recent theatre credits include: Hermione in the RSC’s A Winter’s Tale (Lucy Bailey), Beatrice in Farewell to the Theatre (Roger Michell), and West-End runs as Sylvia Gellburg in Broken Glass (Iqbal Khan), and Marcia in The Misanthrope (Thea Sharrock).
She won the New York Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress Award in 1995 for her Ophelia opposite Ralph Fiennes’ Hamlet and also won the Best Actress Award at The Reims International Television Festival in 1999 for her role of Lady Dona St Columb in Frenchman’s Creek.
As a director she has made two shorts films Prick Thy Neighbour and A Woman of No Importance as well as directing Moody. Tara directed the stage production of Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men at Shakepeare’s Globe in March 2020.