Bairbre Dowling

Who is Bairbre Dowling?

Bairbre Dowling is an Irish actress.

She was born in Dublin as Barbara Patricia Dowling, the daughter of actor Vincent Dowling and actress Brenda Doyle, who died in a car crash in 1981. She has three sisters, Louise, Valerie, and Rachel, and a step-brother, Cian. She was married from 1977 to 1994 to actor Colm Meaney, with whom she had a daughter, Brenda, in 1989.

Dowling worked with her husband in the PBS television film, Playboy of the Western World in 1983, in John Huston's 1987 film The Dead, and in the 1994 drama, War of the Buttons.