Ger Ryan is an Irish

Republic of Ireland

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 film

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 and television

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 actress, whose credits include Queer as Folk, Family, The War of the Buttons, The Van

The Van

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, Moll Flanders

Moll Flanders

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, Driftwood

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, A Love Divided and Intermission

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.

Ryan has worked extensively in theatre, television and film. She has been twice nominated for a Royal Television Society Award

Royal Television Society

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 for Family and Amongst Women, and three times nominated by IFTA

IFTA

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 for Amongst Women, Intermission

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and The Return

The Return

-Books:*The Return , the forty-eighth book in the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate*The Return , a 2007 novel by Håkan Nesser, first published in Sweden in 1995*The Return , a 1997 novel by William Shatner...

. She is also a recipient of a Belfast Telegraph EMA Award in for her work on A Place with the Pigs and Song of the Yellow Bittern. In 2007, she received an IFTA for her work on the two-part docu-drama, Stardust, by RTÉ

RTE

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. She also played Margie McEvoy in all three series of the award-winning BBC

BBC

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 drama series, The Street

The Street (TV series)

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, with Timothy Spall. Most recently, she has played the role of Maeve Harte in RTÉ's popular drama series, Raw.

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