Northern Irish born actress Karen Hassan recently starred as lead role ‘Aidie’ in gripping Feature Film ‘Cellar Door’, directed by Vicko Nikci in association with The Irish Film Board which picked up an award at The Galway Film Fleadh 2018 for Best First Feature Film. Later this year she will appear in RTE comedy ‘Finding Joy’ playing ‘Sarah’ alongside Amy Huberman and is also to appear as ‘DC Rachel Miskelly’ in a BBC flagship film ‘Doing Money’ as part of the BBC anti slavery campaign, directed by Lynsey Miller, for release in Autumn 2018. She has recently collaborated with The Comedy Unit and The BBC playing boss ‘Lisa McCoy’ in their newest comedy series ‘Soft Boarder Patrol’, exposing the hilarious consequences of the boarder change between the UK and the EU post Brexit. Karen also appeared in award winning TV series, ‘The Fall’ (all three seasons) playing ‘Annie Brawley’ alongside Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan. In 2015 she appeared as the formidable ‘Therese’ (series regular) in Season Four of ‘Vikings’ (The History Channel), ‘Rose Freeman’ in series two of ‘Suspects’ (Channel 4) and ‘Emily’ in series two of ‘The Royals’ (Lionsgate). After two years (2010 – 2012) as series regular ‘Lynsey Nolan’ in multi award winning TV Series ‘Hollyoaks’ (Channel 4) Karen received several nominations for her role, including best actress and best story line. She studied at Queen’s University obtaining a first class BA degree.
