Location: London

Orla is an actor and singer from Limavady, County Derry. She trained at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), graduating with a First Class BA (Hons) in Acting and nominated for the prestigious Spotlight Prize.

She most recently appeared in Series 3 of BAFTA-winning Primetime Drama, Blue Lights and in the acclaimed stage productions of Follies with NI Opera and The White Handkerchief with The Millennium Forum.

TV& Film work includes: Blue Lights (Two Cities Television/BBC), Dalgliesh (Acorn TV/Channel5), Pickle Storm (CBBC), Hope Street (BBC), Marcella (ITV/Buccaneer), Line of Duty (BBC), The Fall, (BBC), Emmerdale (ITV), Peter Kay’s Britain’s Got the Pop Factor (Channel 4), A Bump Along the Way (Gallagher Films Ltd), Bad Day for the Cut (Six Mile Hill).

Theatre credits include: The White Handkerchief ((Millennium Forum), Follies (NI Opera), Little Shop of Horrors, Hume: Beyond Belief, The White Handkerchief (Playhouse), Rapunzel (Waterfront, GBL), The Threepenny Opera (Lyric/NIOpera), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (UK Productions, No.1 UK Tours and Malta), TitanicDance (KSR Productions, Ireland & China Tour), A Christmas Carol (Blixten, Stockholm), The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (Aged 13 3/4) (Bruiser, MAC & Irish Tour), The Secret Garden (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Into the Woods (Landor, London), Cinderella (GBL), An Evening with Bette Midler (Playhouse, Irish Tour), Pits and Perverts (Sole Purpose, UK Tour), Cinderella (Lyric), Our Jimmy (David Hull Promotions, NI Tour), Josef Locke (Playhouse, NI Tour), The Comedy of Errors (Ulster Theatre Company), Chezzie’s Chance (Millennium Forum), Fly me to the Moon (Balor Rep), A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Sense and Sensibility (CH UK/Cyprus Tour), Bastien and Bastienne (Welsh National Opera), The Karaoke Musical (Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe).