Amy Shiels
{{short description|Irish actress}}
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| caption = Shiels sings at the Twin Peaks UK festival in 2017
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| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 2001–present
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Amy Shiels is an Irish film and television actress who has appeared in the films Veronica Guerin, Slaughter, Twin Peaks, and as Lunafreya Nox Fleuret in Final Fantasy XV.
Early life and family
Shiels was born in 1991 in Dublin, the seventh child in a large family.{{cite news|last1=Duckers|first1=Kirsteen|title=Who is Amy Shiels from Twin Peaks: The Return?|url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/who-is-amy-shiels-from-twin-peaks-the-return/|access-date=7 October 2017|work=Monsters and Critics|date=4 June 2017}} She was the cousin of actor Karl Shiels.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/amy_shiels/status/1150804431237050370|title=Sleep well, cousin. You were born to shock us, in all the best ways|date=15 July 2019}}
Career
Shiels worked in the troupe of the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin for three years and began to appear in Irish and British television series. Her debut in a big movie was a role in the film Veronica Guerin with Cate Blanchett in the lead role. She performed a number of roles in films of independent American filmmakers: in 2009 she played in the movie Slaughter, in 2012 she performed a role in the film Citadel.
Since 2012, she began to voice the characters of video games, including: Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Final Fantasy XV, and Divinity: Dragon Commander. In 2014, she moved to live in Los Angeles to further develop her acting career.
In 2015, she was cast in Twin Peaks: The Return.{{cite news|last1=Kehoe|first1=Paddy|title=Shine Brightly: Irish stars set to rise in 2017|url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2017/0316/860241-irish-rising-stars-2017/|access-date=7 October 2017|publisher=RTÉ|date=18 March 2017}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|1213995}}
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Category:Actresses from Dublin (city)