Tara's career began, as soon as she left drama school, when she was spotted and offered a role in the film Hear My Song. The film was a big success and she immediately became a household name.
She went on to take several high profile roles on television, including appearing alongside Toby Stephens, Jennifer Ehle and Paul Eddington in The Camomile Lawn. She co-starred with Hugh Grant twice in quick succession in the films Sirens and The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill, But Came Down a Mountain. She then took a lead role in Brassed Off.
Tara returned to working on TV. She took roles in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Woman in White, The Student Prince, the Frenchman's Creek and Jane Eyre.
She went on to take several high profile roles on television, including appearing alongside Toby Stephens, Jennifer Ehle and Paul Eddington in The Camomile Lawn. She co-starred with Hugh Grant twice in quick succession in the films Sirens and The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill, But Came Down a Mountain. She then took a lead role in Brassed Off.
Tara returned to working on TV. She took roles in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Woman in White, The Student Prince, the Frenchman's Creek and Jane Eyre.
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Frenchman's Creek - Lady Dona St. Columb
Seeking to escape the stifling London court society, the beautiful headstrong Lady Dona St. Columb flees to her family estate on the Cornish coast. Her new freedom swiftly brings her into contact with the dashingly handsome French privateer Jean Aubrey who sweeps her off her feet and into a world of adventure on the high seas very different from her dull and boring life at court with her husband Sir Harry.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Helen
Based on a little known 1848 novel by Anne Bronte, Tara Fitzgerald stars as an enigmatic young woman who moves to 19th Century Yorkshire with a young son. Distancing herself from everyone in the village and their prying questions, she remains totally aloof until a charming neighbor farmer gets her to reveal her past through his persistence. Only then does she reveal she is hiding away from a womanizing, belittling husband.
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Brassed Off - Gloria
In existence for a hundred years, Grimley Colliery Brass band is as old as the mine. But the miners are now deciding whether to fight to keep the pit open, and the future for town and band looks bleak. Although the arrival of flugelhorn player Gloria injects some life into the players, and bandleader Danny continues to exhort them to continue in the national competition, frictions and pressures are all too evident. And who's side is Gloria actually on
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The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
Poppy Carew has just been dumped by her boyfriend, Edmund, when her sick father dies, laughing (he couldn't stand Edmund). Her father leaves Poppy a large fortune and asks her to find him some "fun" undertakers. Poppy is not a person who is used to make a decision about the direction of her life and suddenly she has her hands full. The two undertakers both fall in love with her, so does a guest at the funeral.
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The Englishman who climbed up a Hill and came down a Mountain
When an English cartographer Reginald Aston (Hugh Grant) must tell a Welsh village that their mountain is only a hill, the offended community sets out to change that. Tara Fitzgerald plays Elizabeth aka Betty from Cardiff
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The Camomile Lawn - Polly
Presents the lives and loves of a family of cousins from 1939 to the present. Follows very closely the Mary Wesley novel. Begins with a funeral and uses the reminiscences of those gathered to fill in details in the lives of Richard and Helena and their nieces and nephews. Tara Fitzgerald stars as the Young Polly
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Warning - This Video Contains Nudity !
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Sirens - Estella Campion
When a young English minister (Hugh Grant) takes an Australian parish, his first assignment is to dissuade a local painter from showing a provocative painting. He and his wife (Tara Fitzgerald) visit the artist's home only to be smitten by three ravishing models posing, ironically, as the mythological sirens who lured men to their doom. On the artist's bohemian estate, the minister and his wife are shown a guilt-free Eden-like world where they find their own sexuality awakening.
Warning : This video contains Adult Material
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In a Dark Place - Ms. Grose
Anna's new workplace is Bly House, a remote country estate with beautiful grounds and a small resident staff. Anna, The New Childrens Nanny (Leelee Sobieski) starts sighting ghosts and her fears for the children's safety become more pronounced, Miss Grose (Tara Fitzgerald) begins to doubt Anna's sanity and fires her from her post. As Anna reveals some affection for the estate manager, Miss Grose reconsiders and begins to passionately kiss Anna. While they later sleep together that evening, it is apparent on Anna's face that she is shocked by the estate manager's physical attention and feels that she is again being abused just as when she was a child. It seems as if Anna is being sexually abused by every character in the movie, highlighting her disturbing childhood.
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Films and Television Appearances
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Hear My Song |
The Black Candle |
The Camomile Lawn |
Anglo Saxon Attitudes |
Performance |
Galleria |
Sirens |
Fall from grace |
Cadfael |
A Man of No Importance |
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew |
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain |
Brassed Off |
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
The Woman in White |
The Student Prince |
Little White Lies |
Frenchmans Creek |
Conquest |
Conquest |
New World Disorder |
Rancid Aluminium |
Dark Blue World |
Childhood |
I Capture the Castle |
Murder in Mind |
Love Again |
Secret Passage |
Five Children and It |
Miss Marple |
Like Father Like Son |
Rose and Maloney |
The Virgin Queen |
In a Dark Place |
Jane Eyre |
U Be Dead |
Waking the Dead |
The Body Farm |
The Musketeers |
Exodus: Gods and Kings |
Game of Thrones |
Death in Paradise |
Churchill's Secret |
In The Club |
Strike - The Cuckoos Calling |
Requiem |
Acting Roles 1998-2015 |
Acting Roles 2016-2020 |
Dead Birds |
Legend |
Salt |
The Runaways |
Rain Stops Play |
The ABC Murders |
Origin |
Belgravia |