Susan Lynch (born 5 June 1971) is an actor from Northern Ireland. She is known for her role in the 2003 film 16 Years of Alcohol. Her other film appearances include Waking Ned Devine (1998), Nora (2000), Beautiful Creatures (2000), and From Hell (2001). Lynch was born in 1971 in Corrinshego, County Armagh, Northern Ireland to an Italian mother (from Trivento) and an Irish father. She has four siblings; her eldest brother is actor John Lynch. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Lynch has won three Irish Film and Television Academy Awards, including Best Leading Actress for her work in the film Nora, about Nora Barnacle and her husband, Irish author James Joyce. She also won the British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2003 film 16 Years of Alcohol. In 2020, she was listed as number 42 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

Filmography

• A Thousand Blows — Jane Carr
• 2025Bring Them Down — Peggy
• Small Town, Big Story — Jemima Rowlands
• Daddy Issues — Davina
• The Change — Agnes
• Pistol — John's Mum
• Bloodlands — Heather Pentland
• Close to Me — Cathy
• 2021Here Are the Young Men — Lynn Connolly
• 2019Downton Abbey — Miss Lawton
• 2019National Theatre Live: Faith, Hope & Charity — Beth
• Sex Education — Tara Gibbs
• 2019Ups and Downs — Fionnuala
• Wild Bill — Angie
• Killing Eve — Anna
• 2018Ready Player One — Alice
• Save Me — Stace
• Apple Tree Yard — Susannah
• 2017Bad Day for the Cut — Frankie Pierce
• 2017The Secret Scripture — Nurse
• 2016Away — Angie
• National Treasure — Christina Farnborough
• Unforgotten — Liz Baildon
• Chasing Shadows — Dr. Ellesmere
• 2014Common — Margaret Ward
• Happy Valley — Alison Garrs
• 2014Here and Now — Lucy
• Ambassadors — Caitlin
• The Secret of Crickley Hall — Lili Peel
• Great Expectations — Molly
• 2011Hideaways — Mrs. O'Mara
• Monroe
• 2010The Scouting Book for Boys — Sharon
• 2010The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister — Isabella Norcliffe
• 2009City Rats — Gina
• 2009Holy Water — Geraldine Gaffney
• Moving On — Tina
• 2009The Race — Katey Kensay
• 2009The Unloved — Lucy's Mother
• 2007A Woman in Winter — Marianne
• 2007Elizabeth: The Golden Age — Annette
• 2007The Robber Bride — Charis White
• 2006Someone Else — Lisa
• 2006Soundproof — Penny
• The Ten Commandments — Miriam
• Doctor Who — Angstrom
• 2005Duane Hopwood — Gina
• 2005Mickybo and Me — Torch Woman
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Sybil Stamfordis
• Bodies — Maria Orton
• 2004Burst — Maxwell's Fan 1
• 2004Enduring Love — Rachel
• New Tricks — Claudia Scott
• 2004School of Life — Miss Given
• 200316 Years of Alcohol — Mary
• 2003Bye-Child — Woman
• 2003Casa de los Babys — Eileen
• 2003Red Roses and Petrol — Catherine Doyle
• Any Time Now — Stevie McCutcheon
• 2001Deceit — Corinna
• 2001Dumping Elaine — Beth
• 2001From Hell — Liz Stride
• 2001Happy Now — Tina Trent
• 2001Mapmaker — Jane Bates
• 2001Morlang — Ann Morlang
• Sweet Revenge — Madelaine Adair
• 2000Beautiful Creatures — Dorothy
• 2000Nora — Nora Barnacle
• Amongst Women — Maggie
• Kings in Grass Castles — Sarah
• 1998Waking Ned — Maggie O'Toole
• 1997A Royal Scandal — Caroline of Brunswick
• 1997Downtime — Chrissy
• Ivanhoe — Rebecca
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Dr Janet Rix
• 1996Truth or Dare — Mel
• Dangerous Lady — Maura Ryan
• 1995The Perfect Match — Erica
• 1994Interview with the Vampire — Paris Vampire
• 1994The Secret of Roan Inish — Selkie
• Cracker — Tina
• 1992Running Late — Receptionist 2
• American Playhouse — Inga
• The Big Fix

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2019Lost Lives — Self (voice)
• 2015Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain — Herself (uncredited)