Aisling Walsh

Background

She was born in Dublin, Ireland to Raphael Walsh, a furniture designer and manufacturer from Navan, County Meath.

Education

Walsh studied at the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin and at The National Film School in Beaconsfield, England.

Career

She also wrote and directed Joyriders (1989), Damage (2008), Invisible State (2006) and The Daisy Chain. Her many television credits include the Batman movies British Academy of Film and Television Arts television Award-nominated Fingersmith, Forgive and Forget, Roughnecks and the multi award winning British Broadcasting Corporation One film Sinners. In 2009, she directed The Fifth Woman, a feature-length episode of the British Broadcasting Corporation series Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh.

She directed Room at the Top for BBC4.

The weekend before transmission the film was pulled due to a rights issue and has not been screened. In 2012 she directed Loving Mission Hatto which was premièred at the Edinburgh Television Festival.

In 2014, she directed A Poet in New New York

Achievements

• Walsh wrote and directed Song for a Raggy Boy, which won over 20 awards at international film festivals, including the Best Film award at the Copenhagen International Film Festival in 2003.