Biografia

Remarkable talent for accents, which she says comes from her parents. Her portrayal of cockney landlady Phoebe Bamford in Goodnight Sweetheart (1993) was so good many people refused to believe she is Irish.

Was engaged to Ballykissangel (1996) co-star, Stephen Tompkinson, for 2 years.

Secretly fought a bulimia disorder for 18 years.

She apparently plays the piano, saxophone, clarinet, violin, guitar and hopes to take up the flute, as it is 'more portable'.

On the TV series Who Do You Think You Are? (2004) (2 Aug. 2010), Kirwan discovered that she was distantly related to Michael Collins, Irish patriot and Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army.