A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Glentogher, Donegal, Ireland
Ruth McGill is an actress, singer, and singing coach from Donegal. She graduated with a BA in Acting Studies from the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin. She is currently starring in The Borrowers at the Gate Theatre. She also recently played the role of Kate there, in the Gate’s critically acclaimed production of Dancing at Lughnasa, directed by Caroline Byrne. Her theatre credits include performances in Furniture (Druid Theatre Company); Assassins, The Constant Wife, Romeo and Juliet, The Threepenny Opera, and Sweeney Todd (Gate Theatre); Let the Right One In, Jimmy’s Hall, Anna Karenina, Donegal, Twelfth Night, Alice in Funderland, Christ Deliver Us!, The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant, The Cherry Orchard (The Abbey Theatre); Dubliners, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, FREEFALL (Corn Exchange Theatre Company); The Dead Opera (Performance Corporation); The Requiem for The Truth (Collapsing Horse Theatre Company); Stoker (Ouroboros); Macbecks (Olympia Theatre); All in The Timing (Inis Theatre); Everybody Loves Sylvia, Drowned World, and The Illusion (Randolf SD). She was twice nominated for The Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in The Threepenny Opera and FREEFALL. Ruth’s film and television credits include At Sea, KIN, Dead Happy, Nowhere Fast, Miscalculation, Jack Taylor, Damo and Ivor, Wonder House, What Richard Did, Love/Hate II, Leap Year and The Clinic.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.