Portrait of Lynn Rafferty

Lynn Rafferty

Acting

Biography

A queer Irish actress originally from Dublin's north inner city who now splits her time between Dublin and Toronto. Trained in Bull Alley Performing arts school and The Gaiety school of acting. Recent credits include BBC / Showtime TV series The Woman in the Wall, and the feature film Just Frankie is set to begin filming. Lynn can be seen across North America in the highly anticipated TV crime movie Bad Behind Bars, based on the actual events story of the notorious murderer Jodie Arias; Lynn plays one of the three lead roles Tracy Brown. Other credits include North Sea Connecion on BBC4 and A&E across North America for Mopar and Subotica Productions. Also a working voice actor, Lynn is a series regular in the top Netflix Cartoon series Daniel Spellbound; other voice work includes the lead character Thorn in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Seige video game for Ubisoft. Previous credits, The Expanse season 6 for Amazon. She is best known for her lead role as Detective Inspector Jen Rooney in the critically acclaimed Irish crime drama Taken Down, directed by recent BAFTA winner David Caffrey and her role as Nadine in the multi-award-winning Irish drama Love/Hate.

Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland

Filmography

2024
King Frankie

as Sarah

2024
Blackshore

as Zara Bailey

2023
2022
Daniel Spellbound

as Bixby Prospero (voice)

2022
Daniel Spellbound

as Additional Voices (voice)

2020
Faces of Fear

as (segment "The Ties That Bind")

2018
Taken Down

as Inspector Jen Rooney

2016
Rebellion

as Prostitute

2015
The Expanse

as Marta

2015
Breathe

as Bridie

2012
Ripper Street

as Margaret Artherton

2010
Love/Hate

as Nadine