Acting

Fiona Bell

Born October 1, 1984 · Rosneath, United Kingdom (age 41)

Fiona Bell is a Scottish actress, known for her role as Sergeant Angela McLeod in the ITV drama series Soldier Soldier (1997–1998), as Donna Killick in the BBC One crime drama series Shetland (2018) and as Hilary in the BBC One drama series The Nest (2020). Bell was born in Rosneath then part of Dunbartonshire, Scotland. She took an interest in acting and joined the Scottish Youth Theatre, Glasgow…

Known For

Trainspotting

Trainspotting · 1996

MovieDramaCrime

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.

Finding You

Finding You · 2021

MovieRomanceDrama

Finley, a talented aspiring violinist, meets Beckett, a famous young movie star, on the way to her college semester abroad program in a small coastal village in Ireland. An unexpected romance emerges as the heartthrob Beckett leads the uptight Finley on an adventurous reawakening, and she emboldens him to take charge of his future, until the pressures of his stardom get in the way.

Royally Ever After

Royally Ever After · 2018

Royally Ever After

MovieDramaTV Movie

Sara's dream of finding the perfect mate is realized when boyfriend Daniel proposes marriage, but there is one tiny hitch. It turns out he is the real-life prince of a small European monarchy, and his marriage requires the approval of his royal parents. Commoner Sara will have to do more than simply impress the in-laws-to-be. If she wants to become Daniel’s wife, she’ll have to prove she’s got all the makings of an honest-to-goodness princess.

Silent Roar

Silent Roar · 2025

Dondo is a young surfer. His fisherman dad Willy disappeared a year ago. No sign of his boat, nor his body. Dondo’s mother and the community know Willy has not survived a year in the Atlantic. But Dondo thinks differently.

AfterLife

AfterLife · 2003

High-flying journalist Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd) is working on the story that could make his career when he is told his mother is terminally ill. With his father no longer in the picture, this means that the responsibility for looking after his Down's Syndrome sister Roberta (Paula Sage) falls to him. Conflicted by career aspirations and the difficulties in caring for his sister, Kenny at first begins to resent Roberta, until he realizes just how much she means to him.

Low Winter Sun

Low Winter Sun · 2006

MovieDramaCrime

Frank Agnew is a police detective who kills for revenge and naively believes he's engineered the perfect crime.

Gregory's Two Girls

Gregory's Two Girls · 1999

Gregory's Two Girls

Twenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils uncover evil practices at a local factory they want their teacher to help them expose the wrong-doer, who happens to be Greg's old schoolfriend.

A Merry Scottish Christmas

A Merry Scottish Christmas · 2023

A Merry Scottish Christmas

MovieTV MovieComedy

When estranged siblings Lindsay and Brad travel to Scotland at Christmas to reunite with their mother Jo, a big family secret is revealed.

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Trainspotting

Trainspotting · 1996

MovieDramaCrime

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.

Diane's Mother

Finding You

Finding You · 2021

MovieRomanceDrama

Finley, a talented aspiring violinist, meets Beckett, a famous young movie star, on the way to her college semester abroad program in a small coastal village in Ireland. An unexpected romance emerges as the heartthrob Beckett leads the uptight Finley on an adventurous reawakening, and she emboldens him to take charge of his future, until the pressures of his stardom get in the way.

Nora

Royally Ever After

Royally Ever After · 2018

Royally Ever After

MovieDramaTV Movie

Sara's dream of finding the perfect mate is realized when boyfriend Daniel proposes marriage, but there is one tiny hitch. It turns out he is the real-life prince of a small European monarchy, and his marriage requires the approval of his royal parents. Commoner Sara will have to do more than simply impress the in-laws-to-be. If she wants to become Daniel’s wife, she’ll have to prove she’s got all the makings of an honest-to-goodness princess.

Marie Dimarco

Silent Roar

Silent Roar · 2025

Dondo is a young surfer. His fisherman dad Willy disappeared a year ago. No sign of his boat, nor his body. Dondo’s mother and the community know Willy has not survived a year in the Atlantic. But Dondo thinks differently.

Norma

AfterLife

AfterLife · 2003

High-flying journalist Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd) is working on the story that could make his career when he is told his mother is terminally ill. With his father no longer in the picture, this means that the responsibility for looking after his Down's Syndrome sister Roberta (Paula Sage) falls to him. Conflicted by career aspirations and the difficulties in caring for his sister, Kenny at first begins to resent Roberta, until he realizes just how much she means to him.

Low Winter Sun

Low Winter Sun · 2006

MovieDramaCrime

Frank Agnew is a police detective who kills for revenge and naively believes he's engineered the perfect crime.

Sheena Baille

Gregory's Two Girls

Gregory's Two Girls · 1999

Gregory's Two Girls

Twenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils uncover evil practices at a local factory they want their teacher to help them expose the wrong-doer, who happens to be Greg's old schoolfriend.

Maddy Underwood

A Merry Scottish Christmas

A Merry Scottish Christmas · 2023

A Merry Scottish Christmas

MovieTV MovieComedy

When estranged siblings Lindsay and Brad travel to Scotland at Christmas to reunite with their mother Jo, a big family secret is revealed.

Josephine

Loving Miss Hatto

Loving Miss Hatto · 2012

Loving Miss Hatto

MovieTV MovieDrama

The story of one of Britain's most famous pianists, Joyce Hatto, and her husband William, from their meeting in post-war London to her death in 2006 - after which her recordings were discovered to be one of the biggest hoaxes in classical music history.

Woman Journalist

Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch

Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch · 2002

Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch

MovieDramaFantasy

An 18th century couple separated by war gets a second chance at love when a present day singer becomes mixed up in their story.

Moira

The Star

The Star · 1996

MovieDramaComedy

A young boy who has recently lost his mother finds new meaning when a shooting star lands in his garden.

Stand and Deliver

Stand and Deliver · 1998

Stand and Deliver

MovieDocumentary

Alun arrives in Glasgow to play a gig at The Edge, a comedy club run by would-be promoter Max T. Max T should be looking after Alun, but he already has his hands full trying to keep Sandy Cervi, his second cousin and business partner, from taking over the club. In a bid to sort out some 'poontang' for himself and Alun, Max invites Eva, a psychiatric nurse and her photographer friend Christina along to the gig.

Eva

I Saw You

I Saw You · 2000

Iris is receiving romantic messages in the 'I Saw You' columns of a city magazine. Who is the mysterious sender and should she meet him?

Shetland

Shetland · 2013

SeriesCrimeDrama

Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.

Donna Killick

Rockface

Rockface · 2002

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

In the fictional Scottish Highlands town of Glenntannoch, Dr Gordon Urquhart leads a mountain rescue team, whose major missions and incidents are based on real life ones conducted by the Lochaber Mountain Rescue service.

Heather

Kin

SeriesCrimeDrama

The lives of a Dublin family embroiled in a gangland war and the consequences of their choices.

Angela Cunningham

Granite Harbour

Granite Harbour · 2022

Granite Harbour

SeriesDramaCrime

Lance Corporal Davis Lindo arrives in Aberdeen Scotland as a new detective trainee. Having completed his final tour with the Royal Military Police, Lindo dreams of being a detective at New Scotland Yard. However, he finds himself being sent to train as a Detective Constable in the North East of Scotland, he must quickly adapt to his new life in Aberdeen, a world away from anything the soldier has known before.

Isla Breck

Storyland

Storyland · 2009

Storyland is an award-winning initiative by RTÉ.ie and Screen Ireland, a program that develops and showcases new, original Irish short dramas by emerging talent in writing, directing, and acting. It operates as a competitive call-out for scripts, with the top finalists receiving funding and support to produce their 25-minute short dramas, which are then broadcast on RTÉ2 and the RTÉ Player.

Aoife Jennings

The Woman in the Wall

The Woman in the Wall · 2023

The Woman in the Wall

SeriesCrimeDrama

When Lorna Brady, a survivor of one of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, wakes to find a corpse in her house, she has no idea who the dead woman is or if she's responsible for the apparent murder, because she has long suffered from extreme bouts of sleepwalking.

Aoife

The Nest

The Nest · 2020

SeriesDramaMystery

Happy couple Dan and Emily live in a huge house just outside Glasgow and want for nothing, save a baby of their own. Through a chance encounter they meet Kaya, an 18-year-old from the other side of the city, whose life is as precarious as theirs is comfortable. When Kaya agrees to carry their baby, it feels like they were meant to meet, but was it really by chance?

Hilary

Blood

SeriesDramaMystery

Cat Hogan returns to West Meath upon her mother's sudden death - she has an accident at home and died (or was it an accident?). Blood is about old secrets, older betrayals, mind games and the lies family tell each other.

Gillian Mooney