About Me
Graduate of Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin.
About me
Derbhle Crotty is a renowned, award-winning Irish actress who has performed with many of the leading Companies in Ireland and the UK.
Derbhle Crotty
Personal Details
- Location: County Dublin, Ireland
- Playing age: 45-60 years
- Height: 5'8" (172.7cm)
- Appearance: Mediterranean, White, Eastern European
- Eye colour: Green
- Hair colour: Dark Brown
- Hair length: Mid Length
- Voice quality: Warm
Accents & Dialects
- Native: Irish-Southern
- High standard: American-Standard, Belfast, Dublin, French, Irish-Northern, RP
Languages
- Native: English
- High standard: French, Gaelic
Music & Dance
- Skilled: Alto, Cabaret Singing
Awards
1996 Ian Charleson Award for Asta in Little Eyolf
2008 Irish Times Theatre Award, Best Actress, for Masha in The Three Sisters
2015 Irish Times Theatre Award, Best Actress, for Henry IV in DruidShakespeare
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“One of the things that I enjoy so much about the theatre is that marathon aspect. Rehearsing by day. Performing by night.”
Derbhle Crotty
REVIEWS
Press
There is no one you would trust more with this task than Crotty, who as well as being the finest Irish actor of her generation is also the bravest. She seems always to walk a millimetre above the ground on an invisible high wire, giving her a taut alertness that commands absolute attention.
Fintan O'Toole, The Irish Times
It’s no surprise that Crotty’s process is so immersive. Renowned for the power and emotion she brings to her characters, she has twice won best actress at the Irish Theatre Awards - in 2008 for Masha in The Three Sisters and in 2015 for Henry IV in DruidShakespeare, a gender-blind reworking of four of Shakespeare’s history plays.
Joanne Hayden, Irish Independent
Once in a while an actor comes along who, from the start, has that indefinable something extra in the revered cliche he or she displaces air on stage. Derbhle Crotty is such a performer, noted from her first appearances at the Abbey as a talent with a difference, an edge of danger.
Gerry Colgan, The Irish Times
Derbhle Crotty in particular shines in an intimate, captivating scene. Her aliveness to the words, her movement, her expressiveness are a wonder – a reminder of the great hunger within us all for the kind of moments only theatre can deliver.
Alan O'Riordan, The Irish Examiner