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![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Biography:Irish actress "Susan Lynch" first caught the attention of international audiences as a mythical half-seal, half-human Selkie in "John Sayles"' widely acclaimed "The Secret of Roan Inish". The daughter of an Irish father and Italian mother, Lynch (her brother "John" is also an actor) got her start performing plays in Gaelic and received her theatrical training at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, where she won "Kenneth Branagh"'s Renaissance Award for Most Promising Student.
Lynch broke into television in 1993, when she appeared in an episode of the popular BBC series Cracker and went on to act in a number of miniseries and made-for-TV movies, including "Kings in Grass Castles" (1998) and the well-received BBC dramatization of "Ivanhoe" (1997), which cast her as Rebecca. While acting on screens big and small, she continued to appear on the stage, doing particularly notable work in a... Full Biography
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