Dervla Kirwan

In January 2009, Dervla appeared on the cover of Doctor Who Magazine (Issue 404) with co-star David Tennant.

In 2006, Dervla appeared on stage in Exiles, by James Joyce, and in 2007 she appeared in The Betrayal by Harold Pinter.

Dervla and her partner, Rupert Penry-Jones, recorded the audio version of Val McDermid's The Grave Tatoo.

She has brown eyes.

On February 21st 1999 she was on the News of the World Sunday cover.

She was four times on the cover of the British Radio Times magazine.
29 April 2000, 5 May 2000, 27 March 1999, 2 May 1998

Together with actress Sarah Parish she co-owns the production company Aphra Productions.

Her name is an Anglicism of "Deirbhile", witch means "daughter of a poet".

She was forced to leave the convent school after she revealed that she'd like to be an actress.

In summer 2005 she played theatre at the National Theatre (Lyttelton) in London.
She played Alice in the play Aristocrats written by Brian Friel and directed by Tom Cairns.

She appeared in the British Telecom advertisement from 1997.

In 2002 she made a commercial for Kenco Coffee.

She did a voice over for a TV commercial in 2005 for Marks and Spencer. As a result, sales of a chocolate sauce rose by 7000%.

She supported the charity organisation Terrence Higgins Trust on several public events.

She used to date Darren Boyd for several years.

She played the same part of the Wexford Trilogy in theater (1988) and on TV (1993).

Her partner is actor Rupert Penry-Jones, with whom she has one daughter, named Florence (b. 2004), and a son Peter (b. 2006).

She won her National TV Award for Best Actress in 1996, and the Irish Post Award for Best Irish Entertainer (1997) for her role in Ballykissangel.

She went out with Stephen Tompkinson for several years, and the pair of them got engaged in 1998. They split up in 1999.

She is the youngest of three daughters.