☘️Irish/Cork actor. Represented by @thenarrowroadco & @SohoVoices
London & Cork
Joined June 2011
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Kate O'Rourke retweeted
Join us in celebrating the life and career of the late Shirley Temple, #BOTD in 1928! Shirley said she had 3 wonderful careers: film & TV, wife, mother & grandmother, & diplomatic services. For her contributions to our industry, she received the 42nd SAG Life Achievement Award.💛
ALT Shirley Temple as a child, smiling and holding out the skirt of her dress.
ALT Shirley Temple smiling and resting her hands on her SAG Life Achievement Award.
Kate O'Rourke retweeted
Ahead of May’s Scottish Parliament elections, we’re calling for Holyrood to back a pilot scheme of a Scottish Basic Income for Artists (BIA).
Email your MSP candidates and ask them to sign our pledge at: equity.org.uk/campaigns-poli…
Kate O'Rourke retweeted
Joaquin Phoenix, Ben Stiller, Kristen Stewart, Denis Villeneuve, David Fincher and more than 1,000-plus Hollywood names have signed an open letter opposing the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger.
"This transaction would further consolidate an already concentrated media landscape, reducing competition at a moment when our industries—and the audiences we serve—can least afford it. The result will be fewer opportunities for creators, fewer jobs across the production ecosystem, higher costs, and less choice for audiences in the United States and around the world. Alarmingly, this merger would reduce the number of major U.S. film studios to just four.
Media consolidation has accelerated the disappearance of the mid-budget film, the erosion of independent distribution, the collapse of the international sales market, the elimination of meaningful profit participation, and the weakening of screen credit integrity. Together, these factors threaten the sustainability of the entire creative community. That includes endangering the professional lives of the tens of thousands of workers who help make up that community in predominantly small businesses and independent companies embedded in local economies and communities nationwide."
variety.com/2026/film/news/h…
Kate O'Rourke retweeted
The BBC Comedy Collective is open for applications from today until 23.59 on Weds 6th May.
This supercharged bursary scheme offers 10 places each year to mid-level comedy creatives; a mix of writers, writer/performers, producers, directors and editors >>>bbc.co.uk/commissioning/come…
Kate O'Rourke retweeted
Why should you have to tell firm after firm that you’re vulnerable? Our new @mmhpi campaign is for a ‘tell us once’ service for those with mental (or physical) health conditions, to minimise stress in a crisis.
Do watch and read more here moneyandmentalhealth.org/pre…
Kate O'Rourke retweeted
"Selling out to the UK’s creative industries to benefit US tech companies would’ve been an act of national self-sabotage."
Our General Secretary responds to the AI and Copyright report announced by today by the Government, praising the decision to move away from 'opt-out' exception for AI-training.
Read the full story: equity.org.uk/news/2026/equi…
ALT News announcement from Equity
ALT Quote from Paul W Fleming, Equity's General Secretary
ALT Quote from Paul Fleming
Kate O'Rourke retweeted
The members of the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association voted to continue allowing trans women to swim.
More than 32,000 people who responded to a public consultation said they wanted the ponds to remain inclusive.
But Sex Matters are challenging that in court:
goodlaw.social/xu3p
Kate O'Rourke retweeted
🚨BREAKING: The Gaza Tribunal report has found the UK Government FAILED to meet its legal obligations to prevent genocide.
The UK has continued licensing F-35 fighter jets to Israel throughout its genocide in Gaza.
Starmer and his cabinet are COMPLICIT in genocide.
Kate O'Rourke retweeted
The government is lying to you.
Britain is directly involved in Trump's illegal war on Iran.
Kate O'Rourke retweeted
🚨Final Call🚨
Please submit by tomorrow, 6 PM
🔗 Apply via the link below:
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or email: [email protected]
Kate O'Rourke retweeted
Please sign my petition on getting Palantir out of our NHS - now at over 110,000.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio…
There must be a “complete break from Palantir technologies in the NHS," says the British Medical Association.
novaramedia.com/2026/02/19/w…
Kate O'Rourke retweeted
Susan Sarandon says she was banned from Hollywood for "speaking out about Gaza, for asking for a ceasefire."
“I was fired by my agency... It became impossible for me to even be on television. I don’t know lately if it’s changed. I couldn’t do any major film or anything connected with Hollywood. I found agents ultimately in England and in Italy, and I work there. I just did a film in Italy, and I did a play at the Old Vic for a number of months. I know this Italian director that just hired me — he was told not to hire me, so that’s still recently. He didn’t listen, but they had that conversation. Right now, I kind of specialize in tiny films with directors who have never directed, in independent films.”
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Kate O'Rourke retweeted
Free things to do in London this weekend!
One slightly cheeky midweek one in there but everything is free and well worth a look.
From local talks to markets and festivals, there’s plenty going on across the city ✨
Kate O'Rourke retweeted
“If you criticize Netanyahu's policies, you are then described as being anti-Semitic. That is a disgrace and a slander...”
— Michael D. Higgins former Irish President Ireland 🇮🇪
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Kate O'Rourke retweeted
Nine years on from Grenfell, still no arrests.
Every day the tower comes down piece by piece but for survivors and families, the pain remains.
72 lives lost. The community deserves justice. It cannot be delayed any longer💚
Kate O'Rourke retweeted
Tom Kerridge, "Immigration is constantly used by political parties for masking years and years of underfunding in infrastructure, health, housing, employment, education" #BBCQT
"It is not the fault of immigration, it's the fault of poor spending, poor money management"
"Immigration is constantly used as this sort of battering tool, while we are a culturally rich and diverse country"
"And it is one we should be very proud of"
"Tolerance is something we should definitely bring back"
Kate O'Rourke retweeted
The board of Warner Bros. Discovery has determined Paramount's latest bid a "superior proposal" to its existing pact with Netflix.
• Netflix has four business days, or Wednesday, March 4 at 11:59 p.m. ET, to come up with a new proposal to salvage the deal.
variety.com/2026/biz/news/wa…
Kate O'Rourke retweeted
PLEASE SHARE AND RT
Lucy Amos Casting is looking for dual heritage/mixed race, male identifying actors aged between 16-19 yrs,
to play a strong supporting role in an exciting new limited series for Mammoth Screen. Details on the flyer.
#castingcall
Kate O'Rourke retweeted
Probably the proudest day ever today to see what the team @wearehappydoggo have been working on and rolling out in stages. Apologies for the voice but I had to get out of my sick bed to come and see this…
🐕 The start of our government partnerships sterilizing dogs at scale. All around Samui for the next 3 weeks and the moving to rural Thailand.
✂️ I can explain the amount of planning that goes into this for training staff, licenses, permits and general logistics and safety planning etc.
🇹🇭 What I especially love is that apart from me it was 100% Thai staff and Thai community there today. This is how we will fix the problem. Locals bringing their dogs in.
🎯 The dog catching and darting team are my heroes. Getting those dogs in is exceptionally hard.
💵 There is absolutely no cost for the community. Many of these people are low income community who just can’t afford the care. Having their dogs sterilized is a game changer. For those who support us this is what we can do. 100s of puppies stopped today.
People who follow us @wearehappydoggo love the rescues and the retirement village and the food and the makeovers where dogs have comebacks. But this today is why we really do it. These mobile units will go on to save 1000s of lives this year working on a daily basis in rural Thailand. I’ll make sure even if we start on a local basis like this soon you’ll see this all over Thailand and the world. The dogs need this ❤️