{{short description|Northern Irish actress|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person |name = Evin Crowley | image = | caption = | birthname = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1945|12|5}} | birth_place = Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Actress | years_active = | spouse = }}
'''Evin Crowley''' (born 5 December 1945) is an actress from Northern Ireland. She started as a Lyric Player at the home of Mary O'Malley and her husband (later to become the Lyric Theatre, Belfast).
==Career== Crowley first appeared on stage from the mid-to-late 1960s.
In 1970, she made her television debut in ''[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0835013/ The Sinners]'', playing the part of Sister Magdalene.<ref>Ulster Actors [http://www.ulsteractors.com/c/ Evin Crowley]</ref> In the same year, she played Moureen in David Lean's ''Ryan's Daughter''.<ref>''Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films of David Lean'' By Gene D. Phillips [https://books.google.com/books?id=Svu2sMCco_cC&dq=Evin+Crowley&pg=PT694 ''Ryan's Daughter'' (Faraway Productions/A.G. Films/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1970)]</ref><ref>Télérama [http://www.telerama.fr/cinema/films/la-fille-de-ryan,4748.php ''Drame'', La fille de Ryan]</ref> Her role was memorable as a mischief-making hussy.<ref>Ulster Actors [http://www.ulsteractors.com/c/ Evin Crowley]</ref><ref>''The Encyclopedia of Epic Films'' By Constantine Santas, James M. Wilson, Maria Colavito, Djoymi Baker [https://books.google.com/books?id=nWYmAwAAQBAJ&dq=Evin+Crowley&pg=PA468 468 ''Ryan's Daughter'']</ref> In the following year, Evin was Nominated for a BAFTA Film Award (Best Supporting Actress) for her role in Ryan's Daughter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0189728/awards?ref_=nm_awd|title=Evin Crowley|website=IMDb}}</ref>
Notable television roles also include that of scullery maid Emily in ''Upstairs, Downstairs'',<ref>''Ocala Star Banner'' Jan 19-25, 1974 [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19740118&id=jIZPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=egUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3405,3576638&hl=ko Page 2 TV Week ''COVER'']</ref> where Crowley was critically praised for her performance in the episode ''I Dies from Love'', wherein; she falls for a footman from another home, and is rejected.
Crowley also played Biddy Hall in the ABC historical drama ''Ben Hall'' (1975).
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |+ Film |- ! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" | Director ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes # |- ! scope="row" | ''Ryan's Daughter'' | Moureen | David Lean | 1970 | prominent supporting role |- |}
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |+ Television |- ! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Episode # ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" | Director ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes # |- ! scope="row" | ''The Sinners'' | ''The Man Who Invented Sin'' | Sister Magdalen | Donald McWhinnie | 1970 | Season 1, Episode 2 |- ! scope="row" | ''ITV Saturday Night Theatre'' | ''The Dead'' | Miss Daly | | 1971 | Season 3, Episode 7 |- ! scope="row" | ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' | ''On Trial'' | Emily | Raymond Menmuir | 1971 | Season 1, Episode 1 |-
|- ! scope="row" | ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' | ''Board Wages'' | Emily | Derek Bennett | 1971 | Season 1, Episode 3 |- ! scope="row" | ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' | ''The Path of Duty '' | Emily | Joan Kemp-Welch | 1971 | Season 1, Episode 4 |- ! scope="row" | ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' | ''A Cry for Help'' | Emily | Derek Bennett | 1971 | Season 1, Episode 6 |- ! scope="row" | ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' | ''I Dies from Love '' | Emily | Raymond Menmuir | 1972 | Season 1, Episode 8 |- ! scope="row" | ''Thirty-Minute Theatre'' | ''The Judge's Wife'' | Peg | James Ferman | 1972 | Season 8, Episode 8 |- ! scope="row" | ''ITV Saturday Night Theatre'' | ''God Send Sunday'' | Meg | | 1972 | Season 5, Episode 7 |- ! scope="row" | ''Within These Walls'' | ''When the Bough Breaks'' | Theresa O'Donovan | Christopher Hodson | 1974 | Season 1, Episode 11 |- ! scope="row" | ''South Riding'' | ''The Number of Our Days'' | Miss Vane | Alastair Reid | 1974 | Season 1, Episode 11 |- ! scope="row" | ''Churchill's People'' | ''King Alfred'' | Fat Legs | Herbert Wise | 1975 | Season 1, Episode 4 |- ! scope="row" | ''Ben Hall'' | 13 episodes | Biddy Hall |Don Chaffey | 1975 | Season 1, Episodes 1-13 |- ! scope="row" | ''Softly, Softly: Taskforce'' | ''At Risk'' | Joan Fisher | Frank Cox | 1976 | Season 8, Episode 10 |- |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0189728}}
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