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She/her 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇨🇱 supercorp obsessed/ Katie mcgrath ❤️ Toys collectionist/star wars is my religion!
She/her 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇨🇱 supercorp obsessed/ Katie mcgrath ❤️ Toys collectionist/star wars is my religion!
![The actress Katie McGrath was 23 years old when she left Ireland in 2007, another story in the [illegible] exodus of a [illegible]. Her [illegible] experience, however, was a unique one. She got her break as Morgana, an evil sorceress in the hit BBC series Merlin, and from there she climbed to the peaks of US television (Supergirl) and blockbuster movies (Jurassic World). She inspired action figures and kids’ costumes, and she was pictured as Morgana on commemorative postage stamps in the UK.
All these years later, she still can’t quite believe it. "Looking at my path and how I got there, it was lightning in a bottle,” she says. “I filmed in Australia and South Africa and Hawaii, Newfoundland, all these crazy places." Fortune and glory overseas came at the expense of her family life in Ashford, Co Wicklow. "I used to get videos and phone calls from home: birthdays, new year celebrations, and everything. I was never there. I loved my job. I loved all it gave me. I’ve worked in so many amazing countries, but after a while a nice hotel room is just a hotel room. They’re all the same. You wonder about the work life balance, what you’re give up, and what you’re getting back. After a while I felt I was missing too much from home."
McGrath, who I’m speaking to on a Zoom call, holds her laptop over her shoulder so I can see the Wicklow countryside behind her. "I moved back home a year ago,” she explains. “No matter what I do in another country, I still slot back in. I’m still a sister, still a daughter."
Wicklow’s prodigal daughter has returned and her latest project is very apt. Brown Bread, which recently premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh, is a charming short film about a woman, played by McGrath, who returns to Ireland from New York to visit her parents (Fionnula Flanagan and Dermot Crowley). It explores the [illegible] between ambition, emigration, and family ties: "A story that a lot of people of our generation will understand and recognize. A good 90 percent of m…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mbpa33reokr6fxngfcoatscb/bafkreidpbwv7txzdye6wmnww3ully3vgrlmc77lybqjinodmmnpjzmq7uq)
