Her acting career truly started again after she landed one of the leading parts in the critically acclaimed Starz romance series Outlander, playing time-travelling heroine Claire Fraser for six seasons soon she'll prepare to shoot a seventh.
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However, Balfe 'was slightly miserable doing what I was doing' and wished to give performing another go - gathering small movie credits including as an extra on The Devil Wears Prada, where viewers would have only caught a glimpse of her feet running across the camera during the opening. She already has a loyal fan base thanks to TV's time-travelling romance Outlander, but now Caitriona Balfe's role in Kenneth Branagh's Belfast is set to propel her to Hollywood stardom and Oscar glory.īalfe, 42, was born in Dublin before moving with her six siblings close to the Irish border in Tydavnet, County Monaghan, where her father was a police sergeant in the Garda Síochána.Ī lover of theatre and voracious reader, a teenage Balfe studied drama at Dublin Institute of Technology in Rathmines, but before she had a chance to properly start her performing career, a model scout spotted her in a supermarket and launched her onto the catwalk.ĭuring a decade in the industry, Balfe stepped out for Chanel, Givenchy, Dolce & Gabbana and Louis Vuitton, and in a 2009 article for the Irish Independent, Derek Daniels, founder of Assets Model Agency, described her as ‘arguably the biggest model to come out of this country’.
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