Michelle Fairley

Actor Jul 11 (age 63) Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK 1985–2026 (41 year career)

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Biography

Michelle Fairley (born 11 July 1963) is an actress from Northern Ireland. She is best known for playing Catelyn Stark in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–2013). She has since appeared in the USA Network series Suits (2013), the Fox series 24: Live Another Day (2014), the RTÉ miniseries Rebellion (2016), the science fiction series The Feed (2019), and the Sky Atlantic crime drama Gangs of London (2020–). Fairley was born in Coleraine to parents Brian and Teresa Fairley, the second eldest of …

Known For

Film

Game of Thrones

Catelyn Stark

Film

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Mrs. Granger

Film

The Others

Mrs. Marlish

Film

In the Heart of the Sea

Mrs. Nickerson

Film

Philomena

Sally Mitchell

Film

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

Princess Augusta

Film

Gangs of London

Marian Wallace

Film

The White Princess

Margaret Beaufort

Filmography

Acting (82)

Movies (43)

Whistle

as Ivy Raymore

No Ordinary Heist

as Mags Fulton

Small Things Like These

2024

as Mrs. Wilson

6.7

The Trap

2023

as Michelle

Untameable

2023

as Self

An Irish Goodbye

as Grainne (voice)

Nobody Has to Know

as Millie

The Road to Partition

2021

as Narrator

Lesson 7

2020

as Max

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch

as Self

Responsible Child

as Kerry

Lost Lives

as Self (voice)

The Trap

as Michelle

To Provide All People

2018

as Intensive Care Nurse

8.0

National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar

as Caius Cassius

Edith

as Shelia

In the Heart of the Sea

as Mrs. Nickerson

Montana

as DCI Rachel Jones

Common

as Shelagh

Ironclad 2: Battle for Blood

as Joan De Vesci

Philomena

as Sally Mitchell

The Invisible Woman

as Caroline Graves

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

as Mrs. Granger

Cup Cake

as Annie McNabb

Chatroom

as Rosie

Anton Chekhov's The Duel

2010

as Marya

5.9

A Short Stay in Switzerland

2009

as Mrs. Savery

6.9

Best: His Mother's Son

as Ann Best

Ahead of the Class

as Sonia Venning

The Others

as Mrs. Marlish

The Second Death

as Aisling

Hideous Kinky

as Patricia

Vicious Circle

as Frances

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

1998

as Miss O'Shaunessy

6.1

The Precious Blood

1996

as Jean McBride

Life After Life

1995

as Roisin Donaghy

The Long Roads

1993

as Fiona Gibbons

Flea Bites

1992

as Sharon

Force of Duty

1991

as Jenny

Hidden Agenda

1990

as Teresa Doyle

7.0

Crossfire

1988

as Scanlon's Girl

Hidden City

1987

as Cleaner

5.1

Game of Thrones: The Rains of Castamere

as Catelyn Stark

10.0

Television (39)

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast

2026

as Margo

7.0

Nazis, U-boats and the Battle for the Atlantic

2025

as Narrator

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

as Princess Augusta

The Gone

as Hannah

The Gone

as Judge Hannah Martin

7.1

The Road to Partition

2021

as Narrator

Gangs of London

as Marian Wallace

The Feed

as Meredith Hatfield

The White Princess

as Margaret Beaufort

Rebellion

as Dolly Butler

Fortitude

as Freya Lennox

Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

2014

as Queen Igneous (voice)

Resurrection

as Margaret Langston

Crossing Lines

as Sophie Baines

Game of Thrones

as Catelyn Stark

Game of Thrones

as Catelyn Stark

Suits

as Ava Hessington

Misfits

as Louise Young

Lark Rise to Candleford

The Golden Hour

as Julia Harper

as Margot Al-Harazi

In Deep

as Phoebe

Rebus

as Janice Mee

McCready and Daughter

2000

as Bernadette

Births, Marriages and Deaths

as Pat

Midsomer Murders

as Iris Holman

Trial & Retribution

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

as Mrs, Fitzpatrick

The Broker's Man

Safe And Sound

as Eleanor Delaney

A Mug's Game

as Kathy Cowan

Cardiac Arrest

Comics

as Nula O'Reilly

4 Play

as Maureen

Saracen

as Maeve

Inspector Morse

as Cathy Michaels

Casualty

as Kathy Emerick

Lovejoy

as Nancy Phelan

Screen Two

as Roisin Donaghy