Denise Gough

Irish actress Denise Gough’s plethora of work includes Duncan MacMillan’s award-winning play, People Places and Things, which earned her an Olivier Award and a Critics Circle Theatre Award for ‘Best Actress’. She also starred inAngels in America at the National Theatre where she won her second Olivier Award for ‘Best Supporting Actress’ before heading to Broadway with the production and also receiving a Tony Nomination.

Other theatre credits include the title role in Portia Coughlan at The Abbey in Dublin, The Duchess of Malfi at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Theatre, Adler and Gibb at the Royal Court, Desire Under the Elms for which saw her win the ‘Most Promising Newcomer’ at the Critics Circle Theatre Awards,Our New Girl, The Painter, The Birds, The Royal Courts Oh Go my Man, RSC’s Ahasverus, The Plough and the Stars , The Birds at the Gate in Dublin, The Grouch at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Someone Else’s Shoes at SohoEverything is Illuminated at Hampstead, The Kindness of Strangers at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre. Robbers at the Tristan Bates Theatre, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train at Trafalgar Studios, Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Chichester Festival Theatre and As You Like it and By the Bog of Cats at the Wyndham Theatre.

Her television credits include Disney Plus series Andorcreated by Tony Gilroy where she plays Dedra Meero, Under the Banner of Heaven starring alongside Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones, Too Close playing lead character Connie alongside Emily Watson, for which she received a BAFTA nomination for Leading Actress, the title lead in Conor McPhersons’s BBC2 Thriller Paula, John Ridley’s Guerrilla (Sky Atlantic), Apple Tree Yard, series three of the hugely popular and BAFTA nominated BBC drama, The Fall starring Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan and Sky’s hit comedy Stella. 

Denise’s film credits include Monday, directed by Argyris Papadimitropoulos’. She plays the lead role of ‘Chloe’ alongside Sebastian Stan; the film focuses on two self-destructive Americans living across Athens and the Greek Islands who plunge into a tsunami of romance. Other credits include The Other Lamb, Colette, starring alongside Keira Knightly, The Kid Who Would be King, musical comedy Juliet Naked, Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, Ken Loach’s Jimmy’s Hall and the BAFTA nominated ’71 from director Yann Demange. Denise was most recently seen in Philippa Lowthorpe’s H Is For Hawk alongside Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson.