Noeleen Comiskey is an actress who played the recurring character of Marta Shirovs in EastEnders.[1][2] Other television roles include Sarah Webb in Casualty, Hayley Nichols in Doctors and Nathalia Volkov in Legends, starring Sean Bean. She has also previously appeared in Law & Order: UK and The Bill.[3]

Noeleen Comiskey
OccupationActress
Years active2006–present
Websitewww.noeleencomiskey.me

Career

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Noeleen Comiskey has appeared in a number of television programmes including Big Train, Law & Order:UK, Casualty, Doctors and Legends. From 2014 to 2015, she played Marta Shirovs in the BBC One soap Eastenders. The character was the wife of Aleks Shirovs (Kristian Kiehling) and originally appeared with their daughter Ineta (Gledisa Osmani) before all three ultimately return to Latvia together.

She has appeared in a number of films including The Search for Simon, Winter Ridge and The Angel of Auschwitz in which she starred as Stanislawa Leczenska.

In 2019, she played the dangerous Ms M in the feature film Criminal Audition, which premiered at FrightFest 2019, and for which she received positive reviews.[4][5]

She appears in the 2021 film The Obscure Life of the Grand Duke of Corsica, starring Timothy Spall.

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
2012 A Bit Older and a Little Bit Taller Waitress Short film
2013 Project Kronos Clare Frishluft Short film
2013 The Search for Simon Eloise Eldritch
2014 I.R.I.S. Mission Control officer Short film
2014 Snake Pit Zoe 'CJ' Hunter Short film
2015 The Song Plays On Alice Short film
2016 Spaceman Doreen
The Dependents The Boss
2017 Imagineer Joseph's Mother Short film
The Beyond Jessica Johnson
2018 Winter Ridge Jane Evans
The Guard of Auschwitz Angel
2019 The Angel of Auschwitz Stanisława Leszczyńska
A Secret Journey Protester 1 Short film
Criminal Audition[6] Ms M
2021 The Obscure Life of the Grand Duke of Corsica[7] Lucy
2022 Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher Violet

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2001 The Armando Iannucci Shows Fran
2002 Big Train Dr Schtein
2009 The Bill Clara Nowak Episode: "Psychiatric Help"
2010 Law & Order: UK Amber Episode: "Anonymous"
2014-2015 Eastenders Marta Shirovs 7 episodes
2015 Casualty Sarah Webb Episode: "Knock Knock Who's There?"
Doctors Hayley Nichols Episode: "Milk"
Legends Nathalia Volkov Episode: "The Legend of Alexei Volkov"
2017 The Desert Brenda 6 episodes
Casualty Karla Warrington Episode: "Binge Britain"
2023 Doctors Amy Jenson Episode: "Tender Sting"[8]

References

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  1. ^ "30/09/2014, EastEnders - BBC One". BBC. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Inside Soap 27 September to 3 October 2014". Inside Soap. 27 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Noeleen Comiskey". IMDb. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  4. ^ Baldock, Luke Ryan (24 August 2019). "'Criminal Audition' Review: Dir. Samuel Gridley [Frightfest 2019]". THN - The Hollywood News. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  5. ^ Beverstock, Gareth. "Criminal Audition | Movies". Horror DNA. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  6. ^ "criminal-audition". criminal-audition. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  7. ^ Comiskey, Noeleen (16 December 2019). "Phenomenal director Daniel Graham (Opus Zero starring Willem Dafoe) sent me this beautiful still of the wonderful @ali_cook & I from #featurefilm The Obscure Life of the Grand Duke of Corsica starring Timothy Spall & Peter Stormare. Cant wait for you to see it. #grateful #pic.twitter.com/15YcqLcIY8". @NoeleenComiskey. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  8. ^ Timblick, Simon. "Doctors spoilers: Rosie Colton RETURNS!". What to Watch. (Future plc). Retrieved 18 May 2023.
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