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Norma Sheehan
Norma Sheahan
Norma Sheahan is an Irish actress, writer, and stand-up performer born in 1976. Raised on a farm in Whitechurch, she was encouraged by her mother to pursue various artistic endeavors from a young age, including tap dancing, drama, singing, and music. She attended the Montforts stage school in Cork and later the Cork School of Music. Though her mother also encouraged her to get a degree in commerce, which she obtained from University College Dublin, Sheahan spent a significant amount of time in Dramsoc, the university's drama society. She then went on to train at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London for three years.Sheahan's career has encompassed both stage and screen. Her first professional acting job was in Enda Walsh's play Bedbound, for which she won Best Actress at the Evening Herald Irish Theatre Awards in 2000 and was nominated for the Irish Times Theatre Awards in the same production. She has since appeared in numerous acclaimed theatre productions, including Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, Angela's Ashes, The Constant Wife, and the Abbey Theatre's online Covid-19 play Dear Ireland. Her one-woman show, Heal Your Hole, became a podcast and later evolved into It's Wine O'Clock With Norma Sheahan, a stand-up performance. On screen, she is known for roles in films such as Intermission, Ondine, and the Oscar-nominated short New Boy. Her television credits include The Clinic, Moone Boy, Bridget & Eamon, Finding Joy, Women on the Verge, Can't Cope, Won't Cope, Damo & Ivor, Foyle's War, Ripper Street, Rebellion, Harry Wild, The Dry, and Holding. She also does extensive voiceover work. In 2018, she won "Celebrity Fittest Family" with her family, earning €10,000 for cancer support services in Cork, a cause close to her heart after her mother's passing in 2019. Norma Sheahan continues to be a familiar face on Irish stage and screen, actively creating her own work and pursuing various projects.
