Eating veggies and… making memes?
If you’ve tuned into HBO’s The Nevers, chances are Penance Adair has caught your eye.
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(You know, The Nevers, a.k.a. the steampunk feminist sci-fi show we didn’t know we needed.)
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She was born in Dublin, Ireland.
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And grew up in County Wexford to the southeast.
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Her favorite movie is La Vie en Rose.
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The film had a major impact on her career aspirations. She shares, it was the “first time that I’d seen an actress get to be the center of such an epic story and get to express all these seismic feelings, and I just really wanted to be a part of that.”
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If she weren’t an actor she would be a painter.
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She likes playing with Photoshop.
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Her favorite snack is Fruit Winders.
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She’s into stars from the ’70s.
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One of her least favorite traits is “phone face.”
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A.k.a. people staring into their screens when she’s talking to them. She says, “I feel like I’m in the series Black Mirror.”
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She was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role by the Irish Film and Television Awards.
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This was in 2018, for her performance in a film called Kissing Candice, and she ended up losing to Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird. Stiff competition!
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Her sexy and dramatic mini-series Death and Nightingales is airing in the US in May.
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She starred in the period drama alongside megastars Jamie Dornan and Matthew Rhys. Described as “a riveting story of love, betrayal, deception and revenge,” it originally aired in 2018 and is coming to Starz next month on May 16th.
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Her favorite smell is caramel.
She must taste like caramel, too.
I’m sure we’ll be seeing more and more of this lovely performer in the years to come. If you’re crushing on Ann and The Nevers yourself, let us know in the comments!
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