User:Katie Sweetman/sandbox

Early Life Gwynne is the second youngest of 5 children. She was born in Los Angeles, during a tremor. Her mother was heard to have said that she did not remember the room shaking quite so much during previous births. Gwynne and her family moved to Ireland when she was a child.

She attended the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin where she made he non-professional stage debut in the school's 1993 production of Colin Teevan's Tear up The Black Sail. Her professional stage debut was in 1994's True Lines, directed by John Crowley. Devised alongside the director Stuart Townsend, Cathy Belton and Tom Murphy.

Career Gwynne McElveen - Irish Playography Truelines received critical acclaim and went on to win the Stuart Parker award. Critical Moments: Fintan O'Toole on Modern Irish Theatre True Lines was first performed in Kilkenny ]; it later moved to the [[Dublin Theatre Festival and on to the [Bush Theatre] in London. Gwynne became well known on the Irish stage in 1990’s. Work included Ophelia in [Second Ages] Hamlet. Lucy Manet at the Gate Theatre and Eileen in [Billy Roche's] Poor Beast in The Rain, directed by Garry Hynes for Druid Theatre Company. Angelica in Rimini riddle at the cork opera house. Rimini Riddle - The Irish Times And  Titania in midsummer nights dream at Hampton court palace. A Midsummer Night's Dream review at Hampton Court Palace. While living in London Gwynne wrote and co directed the award winning documentary Penumbra about a friend on death row in Arizona. Supported by the British film council.

Returning to acting Gwynne retrained at Bow St Academy. Shortly after Maureen Hughes casting director cast her as Catherine Finnegan in RTÉs second series of Striking Out. Gwynne went on to play Tobis in the new Syfy series Nightflyers set for release in America in September 2018,