Orla Mullan

Orla is an actor and singer from Limavady, County Derry. She trained at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), graduating with a First Class BA (Hons) in Performing Arts-Acting and nominated for the prestigious Spotlight Prize.

A classically trained singer, Orla is an accomplished and versatile vocalist. She appeared in NI Opera’s co-production with The Lyric of The Threepenny Opera in 2018 and is delighted to be returning to work with the company for Follies. She is also creator and member of the close harmony vocal trio, The Swingtime Starlets.

She will soon be appearing in the next series of BAFTA winning TV Drama, Blue Lights and can currently be seen in the recently released second season of Pickle Storm.

Theatre credits include: Little Shop of Horrors, Hume: Beyond Belief, The White Handkerchief (Playhouse), Rapunzel (GBL), The Threepenny Opera (NI Opera/Lyric), A Christmas Carol (Blixten, Stockholm), The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (Aged 13 3/4) (Bruiser, MAC & Irish Tour), An Evening with Bette Midler (Playhouse, Irish Tour), Cinderella (Lyric), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (UK Productions, No.1 UK Tours and Malta), Titanicdance (KSR Productions/China & Ireland Tours), The Secret Garden (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Into the Woods (Landor, London), Pits and Perverts (Sole Purpose, UK Tour), The Comedy of Errors (Ulster Theatre Company), A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Sense and Sensibility (CH UK/Cyprus Tour), Down in the Valley and Bastien and Bastienne (Welsh National Opera).

Screen credits include: Blue Lights, The Fall, Line of Duty, Hope Street (BBC), Dalgliesh (Channel 5), Pickle Storm (CBBC), Marcella, Emmerdale (ITV), Peter Kay’s Britain’s Got the Pop Factor (Channel 4), A Bump Along the Way (Gallagher Films), Bad Day for the Cut (Six Mile Hill).