Sinead Keenan

Sinead Keenan is an Irish actress. She portrayed Bronagh Lynch in the London Irish series, appearing in every episode.

Personal Life
Keenan is the eldest of three children. Her younger brother and sister, Rory and Grainne, are also actors.

She grew up in Dublin, Ireland and attended University College Dublin. She has earned a degree in Sociology and History. As a child, Keenan says she wanted to be a lawyer because she loved the US legal drama, Matlock, but as she got older she realised that she actually just wanted to play the part of the lawyer, not be one.

Other Works
Keenan's first role was in 1999, when she was cast as the teenage girlfriend of Cillian Murphy in the film, Sunburn. After this, she played the character Farrah Phelan in Irish soap opera Fair City (1999) for a year. Keenan has stated she would return to Fair City, as another character.

Keenan left Fair City amid fears of becoming type-cast, and moved on to film the movie On the Nose (2001) with Cracker actor Robbie Coltrane. Her next television role was as Lisa Cassidy in short-lived Irish sitcom The Cassidys (2001).

Keenan then went on to have guest roles in Murder City (2004), Taggart (2007) and Doctors (2008), along with starring in movies Conspiracy of Silence (2003) and Trouble with Sex (2006), before landing the role of Kelly Hawkins in ITV's Moving Wallpaper (2008), which ran for two series.

Following this, Keenan found played Nina Pickering in Toby Whithouse's Being Human (2009 - 2011). The actress, and her chemistry with on-screen boyfriend Russell Tovey, was so well liked by Whithouse that he edited the storyline to keep Keenan's character in the show. The character of Nina was retained for the second and third series; in the latter Keenan was upgraded to a main cast member.

Following her success in Being Human, Keenan has had guest roles in Victoria Wood's Mid Life Christmas (2009), Agatha Christie's Poirot (2009), Silent Witness (2011) and David Tennant's final episodes of Doctor Who (2009).

Throughout her career, Keenan has had strong roots in theatre becoming a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), playing parts such as Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Evie in the original play, The American Pilot. She also starred in Comedy of Errors.