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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. She is also creator and member of the close harmony vocal trio, The Swingtime Starlets, and lead singer of Irish Dance sensation, Titanicdance.

After the success of Series 1, she will be returning to our screens later this year in her recurring role of Stephany for Series 2 of CBBC’s Pickle Storm and most recently appeared in Primetime Drama, Dalgliesh (Acorn TV/Channel5).

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) – to name a few.
Further TV&Film credits include: Hope Street (BBC), Marcella (ITV), Line of Duty (BBC), The Fall, (BBC), Emmerdale (ITV), Peter Kay’s Britain’s Got the Pop Factor (Channel 4), Cyber Police (Meta Compliance), Reroot (Dog Leap Productions), A Bump Along the Way (Gallagher Films), Bad Day for the Cut (Six Mile Hill).