Victoria Smurfit in Ghosts

Victoria Smurfit recently starred as Helena Alving in Ghosts at the Lyric Hammersmith, London

Victoria Smurfit is an Irish actress. She is known for playing Orla O’Connell in the BBC television series Ballykissangel, Detective Chief Inspector Roisin Connor in the ITV police procedural Trial & Retribution and Cruella de Vil in Once Upon a Time for which she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress in 13th IFTA Film & Drama Awards in 2016. Most recently she played Maud O’Hara in Rivals on Disney+.

Theatre Credits

Theatre includes: October (Olympia Dublin); 10 Rounds (Tricycle Theatre); Jungle Book (RSC); Stags and Hens (Edinburgh Festival); The Nativity (West Country Tour) and Translations (Bristol Old Vic).

Film credits

Film includes: Deadly Cuts, The Lears, Milk; Best Fake Friends, Homecoming, An Unkindness of Ravens, Bulletproof Monk, About a Boy, Bait, The Last Great Wilderness, The Beach, The Wedding Tackle, Romance and Rejection, The Leading Man and The Run of The Country

TV Credits

Television includes: Rivals (Disney+); Bloodlands (HTM Productions); Around The World In 80 Days (Slim Film + Television); The Man who Fell to Earth (CBS Studios); Strike Back 7 (Left Bank Pictures); Marcella (Buccaneer Media); Once Upon a Time (ABC); Dracula (NBC); Missing (ABC); Rush (Fox 21); The Mentalist (Primrose Hill Productions); Honeymoon for One (Hallmark); The Clinic (Parallel Film Productions); The Clinic (Parallel Film Productions); Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack’d (ITV); The Shell Seekers (Gate TV for ITV); Alan Clarke Diaries (BBC); Trial and Retribution (La Plante Productions); Cold Feet (Granada); North Square (Channel 4); Ballykissangel (BBC); Ivanhoe (BBC) and Berkley Square (BBC).

Book tickets Ghosts at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in London

Victoria Smurfit Press Interviews

InterviewVictoria Smurfit on Rivals S2 and Ghosts: "it's 17 years since I've been on the stage!" (Martin Robinson, The Evening Standard, 15 April 2025) - Read more