In this series of IFTN Q&As and feature interviews, the country's leading film and television industry professionals offer advice and answer a series of questions about their career background, their current work and thier their views on the industry today.

ACTOR INTERVIEWS AND Q&As

Saoirse Ronan | Actress | The Lovely Bones, Atonement, City of Ember Charlene McKenna | Actress | Raw, Whistleblower Andrew Scott | Actor | Little White Lie, Dead Bodies, John Adams Peter O'Toole | Actor | Lawrence of Arabia, The Tudors, Venus, Goodbye Mr. Chips Sarah Bolger | Actor | The Spiderwick Chronicles, In America, Tara Road Gary Lydon | Actor | The Clinic, Small Engine Repair, Pure Mule, Fergus' Wedding  Ger Ryan | Actress | The Street, Intermission, The Van, Family Brendan Gleeson | Actor | Beowulf, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The General, Braveheart Martin McCann | Actor | My Boy Jack, Closing the Ring, City of Ember, Band of Brothers Elaine Cassidy | Actress | And When Did You Last See Your Father?, Disco Pigs, The Others, Felicia's Journey  Pat Shortt | Actor | Garage, Killinaskully, Man About Dog Susan Lynch | Actress| Mickybo & Me, Nora, Sixteen Years of Alcohol, Enduring Love