Siobhán Mary Ann McCarthy is an Irish television and stage actress.
McCarthy portrayed Roisin Connor in ITV1’s prison drama, Bad Girls. Her other television credits include Lovejoy, The Big Battalions and Holby City.
More recently she played the roles of Velma Von Tussle in the London production of Hairspray (February 2010 – March 2010) and Joanne in the Southwark Playhouse revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Company.
In 2017 she received a Lucille Lortel Awards Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical nomination for her performance in the Off-Broadway production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
She is married to theatrical sound designer Andrew Bruce and resides in London with her husband and two children.
