Award-winning actor Orlagh Cassidy is a New York based actor who has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in Regional Theatres. She has graced the stages at The Nederlander Theater, The Walter Kerr Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Manhattan Class Company, The Irish Repertory Theatre (*Drama Desk Award nominee for The Field), Origin Theatre (*Industry Leader Award) and The Public Theater.
Cassidy has had supporting roles in the feature films St. Vincent, Shirley, After Yang, and the upcoming The Pale Blue Eye with Christian Bale - to name a few. She has been a frequent guest-star and recurring player on primetime television and Netflix series such as Homeland, The Sinner, Gotham, Law and Order SVU, The Good Wife, The Loudest Voice, and Bull. She spent 11 years in ‘Springfield’ recurring on Guiding Light as District Attorney turned Mayor, Doris Wolf. Known at her Alma Mater, S.U.N.Y. at Purchase, as the ‘Queen of dialects’. She has had an extensive career in audiobooks, winning over 25 awards for her narration from Audiofile Magazine along with two Audie Award nominations. She is known by some as the ‘mom’ in the MY BFF JILL commercials for AT&T, popular in the early 2000s.
Cassidy has recently completed a one woman show, It’s In The Play, along with several short stories. Born in Washington D.C., she resides in New York City with husband Nico and sons, Declan and Ronan.