# Presents: Actor Eleanor O’Brien (Báite, Lynley) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/film-ireland-podcast-896003/presents-actor-eleanor-o-brien-b-ite-lynley Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/film-ireland-podcast-896003/presents-actor-eleanor-o-brien-b-ite-lynley.md Podcast: [Film Ireland Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/film-ireland-podcast-896003) Published: 2026-07-31T15:38:05+00:00 Episode link: https://www.filmireland.net/podcast-actor-eleanor-obrien-baite-lynley Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6955465577f9435bdcc8cb82/e/6a6cc15e034f16a52eb1f216/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/film-ireland-podcast-896003/episodes/presents-actor-eleanor-o-brien-b-ite-lynley Duration seconds: 1467 ## Resource In this Film Ireland podcast, recorded live on location in Washington, D.C. at the Capital Irish Film Festival , Gemma Creagh chats with actor Eleanor O'Brien about her role as the lead in Irish language feature  Báite . Winner of Best Irish Language Feature Film at the 2025 Galway Film Fleadh and nominated in four categories at the 2026 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards. In this conversation, Eleanor discusses her experience of bringing Peggy Casey to life, reflects on planning her next steps following the film’s success, and reveals the types of roles that excite her. Listen now on SoundCloud, Apple, Spotify, Acast and Amazon, or subscribe to Film Ireland wherever you get your podcasts or watch the original recording here. https://www.filmireland.net/podcast-actor-eleanor-obrien-baite-lynley Eleanor O'Brien  Eleanor O'Brien is a theatre and film actress from Limerick, who trained at Bow Street Academy in Dublin. She was nominated for the Bingham Ray New Talent Award at the 2025 Galway Film Fleadh for her performance in  Báite , which won Best Irish Language Feature Film. Her screen credits include the lead role of Emily Blast in RTÉ's  Blasts from the Past ,  The Last Right  alongside Colm Meaney, Michiel Huisman and Brian Cox, and the BBC One drama  Lynley , directed by Ed Bazalgette. Báite Winner of Best Irish Language Feature Film at the 2025 Galway Film Fleadh and nominated in four categories at the 2026 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards,  Báite  arrives in cinemas nationwide on 6th March 2026 to coincide with Seachtain na Gaeilge (1–17 March). Directed by Ruán Magan ( The Hunger ,  Our Blue World – A Water Odyssey ), the film is a haunting Irish-language myster… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/film-ireland-podcast-896003/episodes/presents-actor-eleanor-o-brien-b-ite-lynley/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/film-ireland-podcast-896003/presents-actor-eleanor-o-brien-b-ite-lynley.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.