as Maura in Ondine. For her role as Maggie in The Silence, Kirwan won the Dagger for Best Supporting Actress at the 2010 Crime Thriller Awards. She received a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the 2016 Maverick Movie Awards, and won the Best Actress Award at the 2017 Flagship City International Film Festival for her performance as Ed in the film Red. Personal life In 2007, Kirwan married actor Rupert Penry-Jones after a four-year engagement. They have two children, Florence and Peter. They met in 2001 while working on stage together in a West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, production of JB Priestley's Dangerous Corner, when he played Robert Caplan to her Olwen Peel. Kirwan again appeared on stage with Penry-Jones in Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 2003. They also both appeared in the television show Casanova in 2005, although they did not share any scenes. She was previously engaged to Stephen Tompkinson, her co-star in Ballykissangel, in 1998. References External links "Dervla Kirwan: whirling Dervla" (actor profile) 1971 births Living people Dervla Irish film actresses Irish people of Polish-Jewish descent Irish television actresses People from Churchtown, Dublin