Aisling O'Neill

{{Short description|Irish actress}}

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Aisling O'Neill is an Irish actress. She has portrayed Carol Foley in Fair City for more than two decades.{{cite news|first=Rachael|last=Kane|url=https://www.buzz.ie/movies-tv/fair-citys-aisling-oneill-carol-fighter-248429|title=Fair City's Aisling O'Neill: 'Carol is a fighter'|date=5 August 2017|quote=Aisling O'Neill has played feisty Carol Foley on RTÉ's Fair City for the past 19 years, but her biggest acting challenge is still ahead of her.}}{{cite news|first=Geraldine|last=Gittens|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/simply-amazing-viewers-blown-away-by-fair-city-actress-aisling-oneills-harrowing-scenes-on-child-abuse-34948511.html|title='Simply amazing' - Viewers blown away by Fair City actress Aisling O'Neill's harrowing scenes on child abuse|newspaper=Irish Independent|date=8 August 2016}}

O'Neill's portrayal of Carol earns her personal letters of admiration and bought her an IFTA nomination for Best Female Performance in a Soap or Comedy.{{cite news|first=Sean|last=O'Grady|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/i-get-letters-from-people-fair-city-child-abuse-plot-did-justice-to-victims-aisling-oneill-35124238.html|title='I get letters from people... Fair City child abuse plot did justice to victims' - Aisling O'Neill|newspaper=Irish Independent|date=12 October 2016}}

Originally from Dublin, O'Neill lives in Gorey, County Wexford. She is a mother of one.{{cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/living/2016/0719/803387-fair-city-s-aisling-o-neill-talks-about-her-new-healthy-lifestyle/|title=Fair City's Aisling O'Neill talks about her new healthy lifestyle|date=19 July 2016|quote=The actress is currently living in Gorey, Co. Wexford... 'It's a beautiful spot. I'm ten minutes from the beach and an hour from Dublin. I have good friends there and it's a great place to raise my child. I like spending time with friends and I like spending time in nature – I actually need to spend time in nature. I like horse-riding, walking on the beach and I swim in the sea sometimes.' However Aisling admits that she will always be a city girl at heart. 'I'm a Dublin girl, always will be'.}}

Filmography

Film

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!Title

!Role

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2000

|Accelerator

|Louise

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2003

|Goldfish Memory

|Helen

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2006

|Basic Instinct 2

|Screaming Woman

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2016

|Lily

|Yvette

|Short film

2019

|Red Room

|Catherine

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rowspan="2" |2021

|Who We Love

|Yvette

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The Letters

|Publicist

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rowspan="2" |TBA

|Dreamtown

|Mel Richards

| rowspan="2" |Post-production

Tuesday Traders

|Maxi

Television

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1995

|Finbar's Class

|Maggot

|Main role (season 1)

1998

|The Ambassador

|Nate's Girlfriend

|Episode: "Nine Tenths of the Law"

1999–present

|Fair City

|Carol Foley

|Regular role

2023

|The Woman in the Wall

|Mrs. Moran

|2 episodes

References

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