Ruth McCabe

Q: Has Ruth McCabe won any awards?

Ruth McCabe has received nominations for various awards, including the IFTA, but she has not won an Oscar. Her performances have been recognized in both film and television.

Q: What was Ruth McCabe's first film?

Ruth McCabe made her film debut in 1980 with 'The Last of the High Kings'. This early role set the stage for her successful acting career.

Q: How many children does Ruth McCabe have?

Ruth McCabe has two children. Their names are not publicly disclosed to respect their privacy.

Q: Where was Ruth McCabe born?

Ruth McCabe was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her Irish heritage has influenced her acting style and choice of roles.

Q: What is Ruth McCabe's estimated net worth?

Ruth McCabe's estimated net worth is around $2 million. This reflects her successful career in acting and her contributions to film and television.

Q: What acting style is Ruth McCabe known for?

Ruth McCabe is known for her strong character portrayals, often bringing depth and authenticity to her roles. Her ability to switch between comedic and dramatic performances sets her apart.

Q: What is a notable milestone in Ruth McCabe's career?

A notable milestone in Ruth McCabe's career was her role in 'The Commitments', which became a cult classic and significantly raised her profile in the film industry.

Known for

Warmuffin (2022)

2022 / Drama / 120mins

As two enemy snipers, one man and one woman, stationed in a remote valley get profoundly bored with war and trying to kill each...

Jimeoin: Ramble On (2021)

2021 / Comedy / 57mins

Jimeoin presents his new stand up show Ramble On! Jimeoin happily imparts his clever and quirky observations on everyday suburban life in his trademark...

Name

Ruth McCabe

Height

5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)

Born

24 March 1956, Dublin, Ireland

Spouses

John McCabe (1990–present)

Children

2, names not publicly known

Parents

Michael McCabe, Mary McCabe

Estimated Net Worth

$2 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie The Lost Children of Tuam When amateur historian Catherine Corless begins examining records from a former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway, she...	Unknown character	Not rated
2025	TV Small Town, Big Story A Hollywood production rolls into a small Irish town and throws the spotlight on a secret that's been kept hidden...	Betty Battles	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2024	Movie That They May Face the Rising Sun Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where...	Mary Murphy	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2022	Movie Aisha Aisha lives at a centre for asylum-seekers in Ireland in a state of ongoing uncertainty. Having fled Nigeria after a...	Mrs. Keegan	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2022	Movie Joyride 12-year-old Mully has lost his mother and discovers his debt-ridden father stealing the charity money they've raised in her name....	Noreen	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2019	Movie Out of Innocence After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did not commit and is...	Patsy Kerrigan	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2018	TV Women on the Verge The lives of three women in their 30s, as they navigate the challenges of life, love and relationships. Whilst everyone...	Aunty Bronagh	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2018	Movie Damo & Ivor: The Movie Damo and Ivor embark on the mother of all adventures to find the last piece of their family puzzle and...	Grano	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2017	Movie Victoria & Abdul Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.	Mrs. Tuck	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2014	Movie Run & Jump After a stroke leaves her husband disabled and fundamentally changed, a spirited Irish wife struggles to keep her family members...	Nora	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2013	TV Lucan Belgravia, London, November 7th, 1974. Sandra Rivett, nanny of the aristocratic Lucan family, is found beaten to death. Shortly thereafter,...	Nanny Roberts	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2013	Movie Philomena A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to...	Mother Barbara	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2013	TV Damo and Ivor Damo and Ivor are a comedy duo act from Ireland, composed of two contrasting Dublin stereotypes.	Grano	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2013	Movie The Note An alcoholic is haunted by the events of a traumatic childhood. He now carries with him the item that he...	Lars's Mother	Not rated
2013	TV Life of Crime Set against the backdrop of iconic moments in British history, Hayley Atwell stars as an impulsive rookie cop who becomes...	Rose Woods	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2012	Movie Good Vibrations The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations...	Mavis Hooley	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2012	Movie Stella Days A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has...	Miss Courtney	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2011	Movie Wake Wood The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days...	Peggy O'Shea	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2007	TV Single-Handed Single-Handed is an Irish television drama series, first broadcast on RTÉ Television in 2007. Set and filmed in the west...	Eithne Driscoll	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2005	Movie Breakfast on Pluto In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love,...	Ma Braden	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2004	Movie Inside I'm Dancing Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run...	Annie	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2004	Movie The Blackwater Lightship A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.	Dr. Louise	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2003	Movie Intermission A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad...	Celia	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2002	TV Foyle's War As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on...	Mrs. Greene	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2002	Movie Sinners Powerful drama set in 1960s Ireland about a young, unmarried mother-to-be whose family sends her to a convent. There, out...	Rev. Mother Paul	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2002	TV No Tears Based on the hepatitis C scandal that rocked Ireland in the mid-1990s. Two very different women discover that they have...	Nuala	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2000	Movie Wild About Harry A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has...	Lily	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2000	Movie The Closer You Get Irish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of 20 and...	Mary Mulligan	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2000	Movie An Everlasting Piece Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies,...	Mrs. O'Neill	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2000	TV Nature Boy David Witton is a sullen teenager who feels more at ease with animals than with people. Following the death of...	Penny	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1998	Movie Titanic Town Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her...	Kathleen	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1996	Movie Crossroads of Laredo Tex is a gunslinger who murders a cowboy and steals his money. Lem is an honest man who wants nothing...	Barbara	TMDB 3.5 / 10
1996	TV Silent Witness A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.	Wyn Ryan	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1995	Movie Shadow of a Gunman The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages, "Shadow of a...	Mrs. Grigson	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1995	Movie An Awfully Big Adventure Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool....	Grace Bird	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1995	Movie Circle of Friends Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all...	Emily Mahon	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1994	TV Scarlett Scarlett is a 1994 American television miniseries loosely based on Alexandra Ripley's eponymous 1991 book of the same name, a...	Kathleen O'Hara	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1994	TV Takin' Over the Asylum A salesman starts to run a hospital radio station inside a facility for people with mental heath needs.	Rosalie	TMDB 8.4 / 10
1993	Movie The Snapper Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant...	Kay Curley	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1992	Movie Hostages True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.	Elaine Spence	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1991	TV Performance An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.	Mrs Grigson	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1991	Movie Fatal Inheritance Jack Carnegie is an American 'heir-hunter', whose job it is to trace unknown family members who should rightly inherit unassigned...	Mrs. Donovan	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1991	Movie The Miracle Two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other...	Wardrobe Mistress	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1990	Movie The Field "Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow...	Tinker Woman	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1990	Movie The Lilac Bus The lives of seven friends who share a bus from their village to Dublin every day get complicated as the...	Mary	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1989	Movie My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy...	Mary	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1985	TV Screen Two Series of single made-for-television dramas.	Kay Curley	TMDB 7.1 / 10

That They May Face the Rising Sun

2024 / TMDB 7.2

Aisha

2022 / TMDB 6.0

Joyride

2022 / TMDB 5.8

Out of Innocence

2019 / TMDB 6.6

Damo & Ivor: The Movie

2018 / TMDB 7.6

Victoria & Abdul

2017 / TMDB 6.9

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What are Ruth McCabe's most famous films?

Ruth McCabe is best known for her roles in 'The Commitments' and 'The Guard'. These films highlight her ability to blend drama and comedy seamlessly, earning her critical acclaim.

Has Ruth McCabe won any awards?

What was Ruth McCabe's first film?

How many children does Ruth McCabe have?

Where was Ruth McCabe born?

What is Ruth McCabe's estimated net worth?

What acting style is Ruth McCabe known for?

What is a notable milestone in Ruth McCabe's career?