Maggie O'Neill


Margaret O'Neill is an English actress. She is known for her television roles in Peak Practice, Shameless, EastEnders and Two Doors Down. In 1986 she appeared in the music video for Simply Red's single "Holding Back The Years". In 1988 she appeared in the film Gorillas in the Mist.

Biography

The youngest of six Catholic brothers and sisters born to head-teacher parents, O'Neill grew up in the Midlands, where she was educated at a convent school, and, after being inspired by a sixth-form drama teacher, "fell" into acting.
After training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she starred in the video for Simply Red's "Holding Back the Years" in 1986, and made her professional stage debut in Moving Pictures by Stephen Lowe at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds in 1985. After making her first professional screen appearance in the British production Mona Lisa with Bob Hoskins in 1986, she played her maiden Hollywood part in the Sigourney Weaver film Gorillas in the Mist in 1988. She acted with Keith Barron and Annette Crosbie in the 1989 TV series Take Me Home.
O'Neill played Alex Redman in ITV's medical drama Peak Practice and Sheila Jackson in Channel 4's comedy drama Shameless. O'Neill also appeared in the "Straw Woman" episode of Misommer Murders and played Max and Jack Branning's sister Suzy in the soap opera EastEnders for five months in 2008. As a voice actress, O'Neill voiced companion Captain Lysandra Aristedes in Doctor Who Big Finish Productions audio dramas.

Filmography

Other appearances