Olwen Fouéré

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.7017

Gender

Female

Birthday

02-Mar-1954

Age

(72 years old)

Place of Birth

Ireland

Also Known As
  • Olwen Fouere
  • Олвен Фуер

Olwen Fouéré

Biography

Olwen Fouéré is an actress and writer/director in theatre, film and visual arts. She was born on the west coast of Ireland of Breton parents Yann Fouéré and Marie-Magdeleine Mauger. In 2020, she was listed at number 22 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Olwen Fouéré, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


Credits

The Irreducible Difference of the Other The Irreducible Difference of the Other (2013) Character: N/A
"This experimental film embodies an implicit critique of the male paradigm where the fetishisation of property and privilege has resulted in a global ethical deficit."
The Tide The Tide (2021) Character: Night Angler
Once the pride of a North Sea trawler fleet, 'The Annie' struggles to survive in a tide of apathy and neglect. When tragedy threatens her future, the crew strive to define not only themselves but their way of life.
Far Calls Far Calls (2023) Character: The Woman
A film about life and death, following the final moments of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, as the river dissolves into the ocean towards the Atlantic horizon.
Where is Eva Hipsey? Where is Eva Hipsey? (2017) Character: Voice Actor
Where is Eva Hipsey? is an experimental animated film that blends documentary, fiction and poetry. It is based on a short story written by Justin Spooner. The film seeks to convey the power of sound to store and evoke memory. It both recounts and reimagines aspects of his grandmother’s life. The film is told from the vantage point of her granddaughter, voiced by Olwen Fouéré. Where is Eva Hipsey? mixes fact and fiction to search for a truth or representation of Eva’s reality, past and present. It combines experimental animation techniques with archival material taken from both Spooner and Mc Hardy’s grandmothers’ collections; family photographs, vérité camerawork, sketchbooks and field recordings, to suggest a journey. Driven by curiosity and a desire to listen deeply, Eva explores and attempts to capture the world around her, stepping further and further from the familiar.
Bardo Bardo (2021) Character: N/A
A woman questions her lifestyle choices when the travails of urban living are one day jolted into juxtaposition with a simpler way of life.
Procession Procession (2018) Character: Procession Master
A bedraggled community of misfits gather to mourn one of their own the only way they know how - an elaborately eccentric folk music funeral
Radha Radha (2023) Character: Annie
Rural Ireland. Twelve year old Radha lives a solitary life with her Grandmother. After witnessing the tragic death of a local girl, they find themselves complicit in hiding the truth from the community that surrounds them.
Take Me Swimming Take Me Swimming (2017) Character: Eileen
A son must overcome his own conflicted feelings and honour his father's intentions to keep his mother alive, despite her expressed wish to the contrary.
The Sleep of Death The Sleep of Death (1980) Character: Second Maid (as Olwen Fouere)
Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of the beautiful Countess St. Alyre brings him into contact with the Marquis D'Armanville and other odd characters. A series of bizarre murders occur, bringing our hero to the borderland of nightmare.
Artaud on Aran Artaud on Aran (2010) Character: Self
This documentary traces the fateful journey of Antonin Artaud across Ireland in 1937 and explores the Theatre of Cruelty and Ireland's impact on Artaud's life and thought after his deportation and incarceration.
Time After Time Time After Time (1986) Character: Young Nun
'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when she was the childhood friend of Jasper and his three sisters April, May and June. Now she returns to add a little spice to life in their crumbling Irish country house.
Violet Gibson, the Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini Violet Gibson, the Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini (2020) Character: Violet Gibson
The true and forgotten story of Violet Gibson, daughter of the Lord Chancellor to Ireland, who shot fascist dictator Benito Mussolini at point-blank range as she faced a Fascist mob in Rome in 1926. The film looks at how she almost changed the course of history and the enormous personal price she paid.
4,000-Year-Old Cold Case: The Body in the Bog 4,000-Year-Old Cold Case: The Body in the Bog (2013) Character: Narrator
Documentary following the discovery and investigation of a 4,000-year-old body that was preserved in a peat bog in Cashel in the Irish midlands
Falling into Place Falling into Place (2023) Character: Judy
Kira and Ian – both in their mid-30s – meet on a winter weekend on the Isle of Skye. Both are on the run – from their past as well as from the reality of their current lives. The 36 hours they spend together are characterized by fun and lightness. A deep, almost magical connection develops between the two strangers. Everything seems possible. But fate tears them apart again. They both return to London, unaware that they live in the same city. Often only a few minutes, meters and coincidences apart, Kira and Ian move through the pulsating city; they never meet. They first have to face their demons before they are ready to really meet.
She Will She Will (2022) Character: Jean
Veronica, an aging film star, retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse Desi to recover from a double mastectomy. While there, mysterious forces give Veronica the power to enact revenge within her dreams.
The Survivalist The Survivalist (2015) Character: Kathryn
In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) Character: Sally Hardesty
After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic influencers who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town.
All You Need Is Death All You Need Is Death (2024) Character: Rita Concannon
A young couple who collect rare folk ballads discover the dark side of love when they surreptitiously record and translate an ancient, taboo folk song from the deep, forgotten past.
Sunrise Sunrise (2024) Character: Ma Reynolds
When an ex-cop named Fallon returns to the scene of a horrific crime, the residents of a rural town soon discover that this dark visitor is really a vampire who feeds on blood and fear. After he is befriended by a kind immigrant family, the instinctive killer is faced with a choice between revenge and redemption.
The Northman The Northman (2022) Character: Áshildur Hofgythja
Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father.
Zone 414 Zone 414 (2021) Character: Royale
In the near future on a colony of state-of-the-art robots, a private investigator is hired by the colony's creator to bring his missing daughter home.
Space Truckers Space Truckers (1996) Character: Building Commander
John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be a multitude of unstoppable killer robots.
This Must Be the Place This Must Be the Place (2011) Character: Mary's Mother
A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.
Cult Killer Cult Killer (2024) Character: Dottie Evans
A private investigator is forced into a dangerous alliance with a killer in order to uncover a quiet town’s grisly criminal underbelly and clear the name of her mentor, who is implicated in the crimes.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) Character: Melusine
Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
The Ulysses Project The Ulysses Project (2022) Character: Molly Bloom
An irreverent, modern, non-traditional re-telling of Ulysses, told rapidly by a succession of over 75 international actors. The film maintains the rhythm of the novel's stream of consciousness with intimate, minutely nuanced provocative performances.
Traders Traders (2016) Character: Helen Stynes
What if it made perfect sense for ordinary people to kill each other for money? Better than slow grinding financial ruin and misery, and all done according to a strict code by consenting adults. This is Trading.
The Drummer and the Keeper The Drummer and the Keeper (2017) Character: Doctor Assif
The Drummer and the Keeper tells the story of the unlikely friendship formed between two young men: Gabriel, a reckless young drummer who revels in rejecting society’s rules and Christopher, a 17-year-old with Asperger’s Syndrome, who yearns to fit in. This heartwarming story shows the strength of the human bond in the face of adversity.
Tarot Tarot (2024) Character: Alma Astryn
When a group of friends recklessly violate the sacred rule of Tarot readings, they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate and end up in a race against death.
Joyride Joyride (2022) Character: Sideline Sue
12-year-old Mully has lost his mother and discovers his debt-ridden father stealing the charity money they've raised in her name. Grabbing the cash, Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy, in the back seat with a baby. A straight-talking solicitor who didn't expect to get pregnant, Joy is struggling with motherhood and planning to give her baby to a friend who will raise the child as her own. She joins Mully on a wild journey across Ireland, stealing cars, hitch-hiking, catching ferries and breaking police barricades.
National Theatre Live: Salomé National Theatre Live: Salomé (2017) Character: Nameless
An occupied desert nation. A radical from the wilderness on hunger strike. A girl whose mysterious dance will change the course of the world. This charged retelling turns the infamous biblical tale on its head, placing the girl we call Salomé at the centre of a revolution. Internationally acclaimed director Yaël Farber (Les Blancs, Hamlet) draws on multiple accounts to create her urgent, hypnotic production.
The Reckoning of Erin Morrigan The Reckoning of Erin Morrigan (2025) Character: Erin Morrigan
In a remote safe house on the borderlands of Northern Ireland, ex-IRA volunteer Erin Morrigan is dying from cancer. Living alone, she self-medicates using homemade opiates mixed with alcohol. The potent concoction causes hallucinatory flashbacks to her life as one of the ‘Unknowns’ an elite IRA unit that interrogated and killed suspected informers, burying them in the surrounding countryside. Haunted by the daily visitations, her private torment is further disturbed by the arrival of a teenaged boy, who bears a striking resemblance to one of her victims: an infiltrator whom she had once loved. A fervent young recruit, on the run after accidentally shooting a girl in a Derry riot, needing a place to hide. Erin allows him to stay and, as she deteriorates, the boy becomes her carer and confessor, an unready witness to her fight with her relentless demons.
Animals Animals (2019) Character: Maureen
Longtime friends and party lovers Laura and Tyler navigate life and love in Dublin, Ireland but find themselves drifting apart when Laura becomes engaged.
Four Letters of Love Four Letters of Love (2025) Character: Nora Ni Liathain
Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other but how will they ever know it? As ghosts, fate and the sheer power of true love pull them together, so too does life threaten to tear them apart.
Beast Beast (2018) Character: Detective Theresa Kelly
A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.
The Tower The Tower (2023) Character: N/A
Exploring the medieval female mystics who came before the witch trials, it resonates with seismic shifts in Ireland’s cultural and political landscape
Sea Fever Sea Fever (2020) Character: Ciara
The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.
Catching Dust Catching Dust (2024) Character: Copperhead
A criminal husband and his wife hide in a lone trailer. Exhausted by her husbands controlling ways, she decides to leave. But then a trailer arrives with a couple which creates dangerous consequences for them all.
Mandy Mandy (2018) Character: Mother Marlene
The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.
Saltwater Saltwater (2000) Character: Trish Meehan
An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and he's severely in debt. His oldest son tries to help, but has serious problems of his own, while his younger son and daughter are having troubles in school.
The Watchers The Watchers (2024) Character: Madeline
A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night.
The Other Side of Sleep The Other Side of Sleep (2011) Character: Maggie
Loosely inspired by the director’s own memory of a girl’s disappearance from her village, the film follows Arlene, a young factory worker living alone in a rural Irish community.
The Actor The Actor (2025) Character: Judge / Old Lady / Neighbor / Wardrobe Woman / Old Man
Paul Cole finds himself stranded in a mysterious small town with no memory of who he is or how he got here. As bits and pieces of his past slowly emerge, he attempts to find his way home, but time is slippery, appearances can't be trusted, and it's unclear which of his identities is real.



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