Biography

Ruth McCabe is an acclaimed Irish Actress who won an Irish Film and Television Academy Award in 2003 for her role in 'Any Time Now', and again in 2011 for 'Single-Handed'. She is considered one of the greatest names in Irish cinema and theatre. She has performed in numerous plays in the Abbey theatre in Dublin as well a in many TV shows and films.

Actress

Small Town, Big Story(2025)as Betty Battles

Where the Old Man Lives(2024)as Margaret

That They May Face the Rising Sun(2023)as Mary Murphy

Joyride(2022)as Noreen

Aisha(2022)as Mrs. Keegan

Soundtrack

Silent Witness(1996)

Self

Back to Barrytown(2021)as Self

Jimmy's Winnin' Matches(2013)as Self - Narrator

8th Annual Irish Film and Television Awards(2011)as Self

Wild Journeys(2010)as Narrator

Irish Film and Television Awards(2003)as Self - Award Winner

Archive Footage

Return to Laredo: Requiem for a Cowboy(2008)as The Love Interest

Known for

Breakfast on Pluto2005 · Actress My Left Foot1989 · Actress Philomena2013 · Actress Any Time Now2002 · Actress

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Daniel Day-Lewis and Ruth McCabe in My Left Foot (1989)

Daniel Day-Lewis, Ruth McCabe, and Fiona Shaw in My Left Foot (1989)

Credit Score: Ruth McCabe

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Any Time Now

Margaret McCutcheon

Mon May 20 2002 – Tue Sep 10 2002

#	Name	Score	Year	Known	★	Wins	Noms	Votes
1	Any Time Now	13.00	2002	•	8.1	0	0	33
2	My Left Foot	10.00	1990	•	7.8	2	5	85113
3	Philomena	5.00	2013	•	7.6	0	4	107281
4	Silent Witness	5.00	1996	•	7.9	0	0	15084
5	That They May Face the Rising Sun	4.88	2024	•	7.2	0	0	735
6	Single-Handed	4.88	2007	•	7.5	0	0	1640
7	Good Vibrations	3.75	2013	•	7.2	0	1	5966
8	Breakfast on Pluto	3.75	2006	•	7.2	0	0	26325
9	Victoria & Abdul	2.50	2017	•	6.8	0	2	40069
10	An Awfully Big Adventure	2.38	1995	•	5.8	0	0	3236