{{Short description|Irish actress}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} <!--- Don't mess with this line! ---><!--- Write your article below this line ---> {{Infobox person | name = Emily Taaffe | image = Emily Rehearsal Shot.jpg | alt = | caption = Taaffe in 2012 | birth_name = Emily Anne Taaffe | birth_date = {{birth-date and age|10 January 1984}} | birth_place = Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = Emily Anne Schiffer | occupation = Actress | years_active = 2008–present | known_for = | notable_works = | alma_mater = Trinity College Dublin<br>London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art | spouse = {{marriage|Ben Schiffer|2016}} }} '''Emily Anne Taaffe''' ({{IPAc-en|'|t|ae|f}} {{respell|TAFF}};<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/05/david-mitchell-racism-insults-wales|title='Welsh sheep-shagger'? I can hardly think of a less hurtful remark|first=David|last=Mitchell|newspaper=The Observer |date=4 May 2013|via=The Guardian}}</ref> born 10 January 1984;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://metflix.suhelmakkad.com/|title=Emily Taaffe|first=Suhel|last=Makkad|website=Metflix}}</ref> married name '''Emily Anne Schiffer''') is an Irish actress based in South London.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/gMJckd5ByGBb5DPby0o87MIiWCM/appointments|title=Emily Anne SCHIFFER|website=gov.uk}}</ref>
==Early life and education== The youngest of five children, Emily was born to Noeleen and Eamonn Taaffe in Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland. The family moved when she was an infant to Tullyallen near Drogheda, County Louth where she lived until university. After receiving a First-Class Honours B.A. in 2005 from Trinity College Dublin, she was accepted to train at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in London.
===Personal life=== In the summer of 2016 she married the writer Ben Schiffer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/irish-actress-emily-taafe-reveals-the-family-secret-that-inspired-her-to-write-hit-short-film-little-bird/35932407.html|title=Irish actress Emily Taafe reveals the family secret that inspired her to write hit short film Little Bird|date=17 July 2017|website=Irish Independent}}</ref>
==Theatre== Taaffe has starred in a number of theatrical productions across the UK and Ireland. Her credits include: Daphne in an adaptation of Terry Pratchett's ''Nation'', Hannah Lambroke in Conor McPherson’s ''The Veil''{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} and Dunyasha in Howard Davies' production of ''The Cherry Orchard'',<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hemming|first1=Sarah|title=The Cherry Orchard, National Theatre, London|url=https://www.ft.com/content/2a78e682-8267-11e0-8c49-00144feabdc0|accessdate=3 January 2015|publisher=The Financial Times Limited|date=May 20, 2011}}</ref> all at the National Theatre, London. Taaffe played leading roles in ''The Comedy of Errors'', ''The Tempest'' and ''Twelfth Night'' for The Royal Shakespeare Company<ref>{{cite news|last1=Billington|first1=Michael|title=The Comedy of Errors/Twelfth Night/The Tempest – review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/apr/26/comedy-errors-twelfth-night-tempest-review|accessdate=3 January 2015|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited|date=26 April 2012}}</ref> in Stratford upon Avon and in London. Other credits include; ''The Crucible'' at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, ''Three Sisters'' at both the Southwark Playhouse and the Abbey Theatre Dublin, ''The American Plan''<ref>{{cite news|last1=Billington|first1=Michael|title=The American Plan – review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/mar/17/american-plan-review|accessdate=3 January 2015|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited|date=17 March 2013}}</ref> at The Theatre Royal Bath, ''The House of Special Purpose'' at Minerva Theatre, Chichester and ''Intemperance'' at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre.
==Television== Having begun to expand into screen work,<ref>{{IMDb name}}</ref> Taaffe had a role in the CBC series ''X Company'', an emotionally driven character drama set in World War II, and in the Victorian era detective drama, ''Ripper Street''. Additional TV credits include a role in the BBC's ''War and Peace'', as well as guest roles in the BBC programmes ''New Tricks'', ''Call the Midwife'', ''Atlantis'', ''Death in Paradise'', and ''Informer''. She has also appeared in ITV’s ''Vera'' and ''The Borgias''. In 2025, she appeared in the Paramount production ''Little Disasters'' and the Channel 4 drama series ''Trespasses''.
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==External links== * {{IMDb name}} * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7cQKJH5e_Y YouTube] * [http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/backstage-pass/article/item110837/introducing-emily-taaffe/ Introducing Emily Taaffe] from ''Official London Theatre'' * [http://www.ayoungertheatre.com/shipwrecked-emily-taaffe-takes-on-shakespeare-trilogy/ A Younger Theatre]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Taaffe, Emily}} Category:1984 births Category:21st-century Irish actresses Category:Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art Category:Irish stage actresses Category:Irish television actresses Category:Living people Category:Royal Shakespeare Company members Category:People from Skerries, County Dublin Category:Actresses from County Dublin