Dervla Kirwan

Dervla Kirwan (born 24 October 1971Doctor Who Guide) played Mercy Hartigan in The Next Doctor. She later voiced a number of characters for Big Finish's audio adventures, notably Lizbeth Hayhoe in the Torchwood audio dramas and recreating the role of Miss Quill (previously portrayed by Katherine Kelly) in the Class: The Audio Adventures audio series.
== Career ==
Though Irish, her career has mostly been in the British market, where she has amassed a long string of starring television roles. She has been a part of the regular casts of several British programmes like , , , , and . She is likely most famous, however, for her National Television Award-winning role of Assumpta Fitzgerald in , a role with which she crossed over into both and .
She has been in a number of productions alongside other key Doctor Who actors. In one of her first major television serials, , she was joined by guest stars David Banks and Geoffrey Beevers. In 1999 she played Christopher Eccleston's wife in the film With or Without You. In 2001, she and Derek Jacobi guest-starred in an episode of alongside regular cast member Tom Baker. In Hearts and Bones, she was a regular cast member with fellow Christmastime baddie Sarah Parish. Like David Tennant and Shaun Parkes before her, she came to Doctor Who after an appearance in the Russell T Davies/Julie Gardner production of . Though she did not have any scenes with Tennant in Casanova, she did in the one-off 2004 production, The Deputy.
After her Doctor Who appearance, she guest-starred in a couple of episodes of , alongside Freema Agyeman and Bill Paterson. She also made the Irish film with Tony Curran. In 2010, she starred alongside Lenora Crichlow in the series .
== Credits ==
As Lizbeth Hayhoe
=== Audio ===
==== Torchwood ====
* Madam, I'm
==== Torchwood Soho ====
* Parasite
* Ashenden
* The Unbegotten
Other Roles
=== Television ===
==== Doctor Who ====
* The Next Doctor - Mercy Hartigan
=== Audio ===
==== Doctor Who: Redacted ====
As Honour Bray
* Underground
* Spaceman
* Reboot
* Redemption
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
* Aimed at the Body - Mrs Calderwood
* Lightspeed - Yost McCormack
* The Bookshop at the End of the World - Di Wright
* Interlude - Anne-Marie
* Echo Chamber - Pellent Glommeration Representative
* Towards Zero - Agatha Fernbridge
* Castle Hydra - Professor Callis
* Effect and Cause - Kelleher
==== Class ====
As Miss Quill
* Catfish
* Sweet Nothings
* Mock
* The Creeper
* Queen of Rhodia
== External links ==
== Footnotes ==
Category:Doctor Who guest actors
Category:Actors interviewed on Doctor Who Confidential
Category:National Television Award winners
Category:Audio cast stubs
Category:Big Finish regular cast
Category:Class: The Audio Adventures voice actors
Category:Main Range voice actors
Category:BFTW voice actors
Category:Doctor Who: Redacted voice actors