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Acting

Ruth McCabe

Career: Active from 1990 to 2024, busiest in 2013 with 4 main titles.

Leading roles: 5
top three billing

Average score: 66/100

Highest rated: Takin' Over the Asylum
84/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 33 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Ruth McCabe Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
3.5, average 4.8
Uncanny
1.4, average 2.5
Scare
1.4, average 2.6
Fantasy
0.7, average 1.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 7
Social Commentary 4
Historical Setting 3
Contemporary Setting 2
Rural Setting 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

46

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

4 titles · average score 67

Small Town, Big Story

64

TV show · as Betty Battles

That They May Face the Rising Sun

68

as Mary Murphy

Aisha

79

as Mrs. Keegan

Joyride

56

as Noreen

2010s

13 titles · average score 68

Out of Innocence

as Patsy Kerrigan

Damo & Ivor: The Movie

63

as Grano

Women on the Verge

79

TV show · as Aunty Bronagh

Victoria & Abdul

63

as Mrs. Tuck

Run & Jump

68

as Nora

Philomena

81

as Mother Barbara

TV show · as Grano

Life of Crime

65

TV show · as Rose Woods

as Lars's Mother

Lucan

69

TV show · as Nanny Roberts

Good Vibrations

84

as Mavis Hooley

Wake Wood

66

as Peggy O'Shea

2000s

12 titles · average score 65

Single-Handed

71

TV show · as Eithne Driscoll

Breakfast on Pluto

65

as Ma Braden

Inside I'm Dancing

66

as Annie

The Blackwater Lightship

61

as Dr. Louise

Intermission

68

as Celia

Foyle's War

83

TV show · as Mrs. Greene

No Tears

TV show · as Nuala

Sinners

75

as Rev. Mother Paul

The Closer You Get

39

as Mary Mulligan

An Everlasting Piece

50

as Mrs. O'Neill

Wild About Harry

60

as Lily

Nature Boy

74

TV show · as Penny

1990s

15 titles · average score 63

Titanic Town

64

as Kathleen

Silent Witness

75

TV show · as Wyn Ryan

Crossroads of Laredo

34

as Barbara

Shadow of a Gunman

as Mrs. Grigson

Circle of Friends

69

as Emily Mahon

An Awfully Big Adventure

50

as Grace Bird

Takin' Over the Asylum

84

TV show · as Rosalie

Scarlett

65

TV show · as Kathleen O'Hara

The Snapper

72

as Kay Curley

Performance

TV show · as Mrs Grigson

The Miracle

62

as Wardrobe Mistress

The Field

59

as Tinker Woman

1980s

2 titles · average score 78

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

89

as Mary

Screen Two

68

TV show · as Kay Curley