Geraldine Hughes received the Los Angeles Ovation, Garland and Drama Critics Circle Awards and a Drama League Award Nomination for Outstanding Performance for her solo play Belfast Blues, which she also wrote and performed.
Other theatre credits include: “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” as Professor McGonagall, “Jerusalem,” (Broadway and West End), "Particle of Dread” (opposite Stephen Rea), Cyrano De Bergerac (Broadway), Translations (Broadway), Molly Sweeney (Irish Repertory Theatre), Pumpgirl (MTC), Orson’s Shadow, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Weir, and The Architect. Television: Your Honor (recurring) Kevin Can Wait, Law and Order OC and SVU, The Blacklist (recurring), Blue Bloods, Nurse Jackie, Mercy, The Good Wife, Law and Order CI, Law & Order, Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle, ER.
Films include: “The Book of Henry,” “Time Out of Mind,” “Gran Torino,” “Rocky Balboa,” “Killing Lincoln,” and “Nine Days.” Hughes received an honorary doctorate from Queens University, Belfast for her contribution to the arts. She is an executive producer on the film “The Last Rifleman,” starring Pierce Brosnan and a producer on the film “In the Land of Saints and Sinners,” starring Liam Neeson and Ciarán Hinds.
Hughes will be traveling to Japan in 2023 to film multiple episodes of “Tokyo Vice” Season 2 for HBO and has several film projects in development with her two companies Slieve and Prodigal Films. She is a 2023 recipient of the Irish American Partnership’s Nollaig na mBan women’s leadership award. Hughes is a patron of Integrated Education in the North of Ireland and is also a supporter of the MAC (Metropolitan Arts Centre) in Belfast.
