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Roll up, roll up for the list of up-and-coming stars of Irish screen (and stage) you won’t be able to avoid in the 12 months ahead. They’re smart, they’re cute, they’re quirky – and it looks like they’re about to take over the world.

Roe McDermott, 17 Jan 2012

Kirsten Sheridan

As Peaches, Pixie and Paris have all suggested, having successful parents is no guarantee that you have what it takes. We’re glad to say that Kirsten Sheridan bucks this trend. The daughter of the great Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan, Kirsten isn’t exactly a new kid on the block, having achieved an Academy Award nomination for co-writing the gorgeous In America with her dad, and garnering great praise for her highly stylized debut Disco Pigs. But this year Sheridan is ready to return to the limelight, having written and directed the Dublin-set drama Dollhouse. A raw, wild and largely improvised film about several Dublin teenagers (played by the freshest of Irish acting talent) who break into a house, this emotional and naturalistic feature is garnering great word-of-mouth, and has been critically acclaimed at festivals, most recently being selected for the Panorama ‘Special’ section of the International Berlin Film Festival. It could be the Irish movie success of 2012.

Eve Hewson

Another fruit of famous loins, Eve Hewson is the daughter of the very quiet, unassuming and low-key Paul Hewson and his wife Ali. Though there was speculation that the 19 year-old beauty might follow in her rock star dad’s footsteps, it seems her ambition is to be in front of a camera rather than a microphone. The young actress stars alongside Sean Penn and Francis McDormand in the impressively quirky This Must Be The Place – not a bad gig for your debut! Focused on the mid-life crisis of an eccentric rock star (Sean Penn channelling Robert Smith), the David Byrne-scored film sees Eve play a free spirit who tries to shake the past-it punk out of his torper. Hewson gives an incredibly comfortable and beguiling performance in a film that was warmly received in Cannes last year. We’re sure that following its release early in 2012, more offers will be rolling in for the young starlet. Here’s hoping Bono’s house is big enough to accommodate yet another success story.



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