NI actress Seáinín Brennan cast in Netflix series
It's set to premiere later this year
Séainín Brennan, previously star of The Fall & Hidden has joined the cast of the new original Netflix thriller series Hache, which will premiere later in 2019 in more than 190 countries.
Hache, inspired by real events is a Spanish language series is made up of 8 episodes and is currently filming on location in Barcelona, Spain.
Hache stars Adriana Ugarte (The Time Between, Julieta) and Javier Rey (Cocaine Coast, Sin Fin). It is the story of Helena (Ugarte) a woman catapulted to the heroin trafficking business, amid the violence and glamour of Barcelona during the 1960’s.
Séainín, who delivers a bilingual script in both Spanish and English, plays Anna McVeigh, the wife of the American Consul in Barcelona. Filming in Barcelona since November 2018, Séainín said “Hache is superbly written and will have audiences on the edge of their seats.
It is both a privilege and an honour to work with Verónica Fernández, who has created a brilliant set of complex and compelling characters. My character Anna is a fiery red head in every sense of the phrase. She enjoys her privileged position and the Barcelona nightlife a little too much, with disastrous consequences. I love playing Anna and working with Jorge Torregrossa and the incredible cast and crew on Hache for Netflix is definitely a career highlight.”
Séainín was named ‘Woman of the Year in the Arts’ for her breakthrough performance as Frances opposite Philip Glenister (Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes) in the BBC primetime drama Hidden written by Ronan Bennett. Séainín is best known on screen as grieving mother Liz Tyler in Allan Cubitt’s critically acclaimed global thriller The Fall, starring alongside Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey, Anthropoid) and Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, The Last King of Scotland). She also stars opposite John Hannah (The Mummy, Four Weddings and a Funeral) as Sophie in the film Girona.
A prolific stage actress, Séainín trained at the Guildford School of Acting. She received critical acclaim for creating the role of Regine in the world premiere of Frank McGuinness’ version of Ibsen’s Ghosts at Bristol Old Vic and for her portrayal of Helen Woods in the Irish Premiere of Owen McCafferty’s Scenes from the Big Picture.
In Dublin, she created the role of Rebecca Loos in the musical comedy Macbecks at the Olympia Theatre, and played Miss Forsythe in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, directed by award-winning Broadway director David Esbjornson in a sell-out run at the Gate Theatre. Séainín created the role of Tania in the world premiere of Marie Jones’ Sinners at The Lyric Theatre in 2017 and she last tread the boards in the sell-out run of Gibraltar Strait by Hugh Stoddart at The Mac Theatre in October 2018