Niamh Algar

Niamh Algar is one of the most exciting actors I'm tracking right now. Her IFTA-winning turn in The Virtues and her BAFTA-nominated supporting role in Calm with Horses revealed a performer who can hold raw emotional intensity without ever overplaying it, while her range across Raised by Wolves and Wrath of Man shows she's as comfortable in austere drama as in muscular genre work. There's a coiled, watchful quality to her screen presence that I find magnetic. Irish cinema keeps producing actors with this kind of shadowed depth, and she strikes me as a genuine standout among them.

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Name (English)

Niamh Algar

Name (Japanese)

ニアフ・アルガー

Reading

にあふ・あるがー

Born

June 28, 1992 (age 34)

Origin

Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland

Occupation

actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Monkey

Awards & achievements

• 2019 Breakthrough Brits

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/niamhalgar/
• Xhttps://x.com/NiamhAlgar
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niamh%20Algar
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85674675

Tags

• County Westmeath
• actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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