Phyllis MacMahon

{{short description|British actress (born 1975)}}

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Phyllis MacMahon is an Irish actress. She is known for her work in films such as 10 Rillington Place (1971) in which she played Muriel Eady, the first woman murdered in the film by Richard Attenborough's John Christie,{{cite book|last=Derry|first=Charles|title=Dark Dreams 2. 0: A Psychological History of the Modern Horror Film from the 1950s to the 21st Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=loUaJC9VBMUC&pg=PA370|year=2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-5695-6|page=370}} Leo the Last (1970), I Don't Want to Be Born (1975), The Magdalene Sisters (2002) and Shaun of the Dead (2004). She also played an Irish nurse in John Mackenzie's Made (1972).{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2bac4af256|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120810084030/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2bac4af256|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 August 2012|title=Phyllis MacMahon|publisher=British Film Institute|accessdate=20 January 2014}} She typically plays nuns, prostitutes or old aunts.{{cite book|last=Hynes|first=Colleen Anne|title="Strangers in the House": Twentieth Century Revisions of Irish Literary and Cultural Identity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8iCbQxgns5YC&pg=PA127|year=2007|isbn=978-0-549-22372-6|page=127}}