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Roma Downey

  • Birthplace: Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
  • Birthday: May 6, 1963

This dark-haired actress from war-torn Northern Ireland studied art and acting in England before coming to the US in 1986. Shortly after arriving, Downey made her off-Broadway debut in the environmental theater piece, "Tamara" (1987), and her TV debut in a recurring role on the ABC soap "One Life to Live". She played the ingenue in the 1989 Broadway revival of Somerset Maugham's "The Circle" in the eminent company of Rex Harrison, Glynis Johns and Stewart Granger. Downey received notice portraying Jacqueline Ke…more

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Career Milestones

  • 1998

    Made producing debut with the CBS TV-movie "Monday After the Miracle"; also starred as Annie Sullivan

  • 1994 to 0000

    Starred as Tess, a novice spirit, in CBS drama series "Touched By an Angel"

  • 1991

    Appeared in short-lived NBC series "Disney Presents 'The Lives of Black Jack Savage'"

  • 1991

    Starred as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis in the six-hour NBC miniseries "A Woman Named Jackie"

  • 1989

    Broadway debut in "The Circle"

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Awards

  • 1999

    TV GUIDE Award: Actress in a Drama Series

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