
Louisa Harland
Actor · b. 1993 · Dundrum, County Dublin, Ireland
Louisa Clare Harland is an Irish actress best known for her role as Orla McCool in the Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls and the titular character of the Disney+ series Renegade Nell. Brought up in Dundrum, South Dublin, Harland has two older sisters, Katie and Ellie. She was part of the Ann Kavanagh Youth Theatre in Rathfarnham. She trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London. Upon graduation, Harland landed a recurring role as Kayleigh in season two of the RTÉ One series Love/Hate in 2011. She later appeared in films Rob Burke's Standby (2014) and Woody Harrelson's Lost in London (2017). In 2017, it was announced Harland had been cast as Orla McCool, the eccentric cousin of Erin Quinn (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), in the Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls. The first series aired in January 2018, receiving critical and commercial acclaim, and the second in March 2019. A final third series, as well as a special, aired in 2022.
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Movie7.7DramaRomanceThe powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
Hamnet
2025 · 1.6K votes
Movie6.9DramaA young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursuit of the world’s first ‘test tube baby’, Louise Joy Brown.
JOY
2024 · 185 votes
Movie6.0ComedyDramaWithin the course of a night, Woody Harrelson finds himself in a misadventure in London that winds him up in prison.
Lost in London
2017 · 137 votes
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Based on the Edith Wharton classic of the same name, Undine Spragg, a fiercely ambitious woman from the Midwest, strives for the social heights of turn of the century New York. Armed with beauty, daring/hustle and sheer force of will/unwavering ambition, Undine battles an entrenched elite, fearlessly courting controversy, until love and fortune align.
Movie5.6HorrorComedyA crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering Father and Son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.
Boys from County Hell
2021 · 78 votes
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Miles struggles with growing feelings of emasculation and emotional impotency within his relationship with Remona. An opportunity to reclaim his sense of self arises from another man’s act of heroism during a violent home invasion — but as events spiral out of control, he’s forced to confront the destructive masculine ideals driving him.
MovieComedyCrimeIn a world where humans live alongside sock-monsters, a maverick human detective must battle lies, deception, and every movie cliché in his hunt for the truth when a sock monster is murdered.
Odd Socks
2025
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Estranged sisters are reunited at their mother’s deathbed
Grief Room
2026
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After their mother's death, six sisters in a rural beach town take an oath to remain silent. As the sisters become increasingly reclusive, someone arrives that will change their whole world.
Sunday Tide
2018 · 1 votes
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TV8.1ComedyDramaAmidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
Derry Girls
2018 · 431 votes
TV7.5CrimeDramaModern-day underworld characters Nidge and John Boy wrestle for control of Dublin's illicit drug trade in this forceful crime drama.
Love/Hate
2010 · 48 votes
TV7.3Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyEngland, 1705: Framed for murder and on the run with her sisters, Nell Jackson turns her hand to highway robbery to survive. Aided by her superpowered sidekick, a plucky little sprite called Billy Blind, Nell realizes that fate has put her on the wrong side of the law for a reason. A reason much bigger than she could have ever imagined: to defeat a magical plot against the Queen of England.
Renegade Nell
2024 · 111 votes
TV5.5DramaComedySet in their Dublin hometown, Anna, Rachel, Maggie, Claire and Helen navigate the peaks and troughs of their late 20s and 30s. This is a sisterhood full of in-jokes, hand-me-down resentments and more than a few old wounds. But their DNA, history and shared love of power ballads keep the Walsh sisters together in the face of heartbreak, grief, addiction and parenthood.
The Walsh Sisters
2025 · 2 votes