
Karen Ardiff
Acting
Biography
Karen Ardiff is an Irish actor and writer. Ardiff was born in Dublin and attended Trinity College, Dublin's Samuel Beckett Centre. She has worked as an actress on stage and television as well as in Evelyn and Brooklyn. She has written, In Skagway, her first play, which was produced by Guna Nua Theatre company and won the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Best New Play Award as well as the Stewart Parker/BBC Northern Ireland Award. Her first novel The Secret of my Face came out in 2007.
Filmography
12 credits
This Is My Father
Movie • 1999
Young Mrs. Kearney

Sinners
Movie • 2002
Nuala

Wastewater
Movie • 2019
Catherine

Brooklyn
Movie • 2015
Mrs. Farrell

A Terrible Beauty
Movie • 2013
Sarah Hughes

The Bookshop
Movie • 2017
Mrs. Deben

Noble
Movie • 2014
Chipper Waitress

Evelyn
Movie • 2002
Sister Felicity

Bodkin
TV • 2024
Shirley

Mya Go
TV • 2020
Mama Go (voice)

Storyland
TV • 2009
Catherine

Acceptable Risk
TV • 2017
Forensics Officer Bridget MacNally