Here Are 16 Fun Facts About Ann Skelly From "The Nevers"
Eating veggies and...making memes?
If you've tuned in to HBO's The Nevers, chances are Penance Adair has caught your eye.
(You know, The Nevers, aka the steampunk feminist sci-fi show we didn't know we needed.)
Penny is a brilliant, golden-hearted inventor played by Ann Skelly, a newcomer to American screens.
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If you want a little lowdown on this bright young talent, read on!
1. She was born in Dublin.
And she grew up in County Wexford, to the south.
2. She wasn't a huge fan of school.
3. Her favorite movie is La Vie en Rose.
The film had a major impact on her career aspirations. She shares that it was the "first time that I'd seen an actress get to be the center of such an epic story and get to express all these seismic feelings, and I just really wanted to be a part of that."
5. If she weren't an actor, she would be a painter.
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Painting is something she considers "an equivalent feeling to acting; like, it's very absorbing and it's like hyperfocusing — that state of concentration that I just really like, where you forget to eat and the whole kinda world falls away."
6. She likes playing with Photoshop.
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Could meme-making be another career option?
8. She's a Sagittarius!
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Her birthday is Dec. 6.
9. Her favorite snack is Fruit Winders.
These look to be cousins of Fruit by the Foot here in the US.
10. She's into stars from the '70s.
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When asked whom she'd invite to her dream dinner, Skelly answered, "Al Pacino, George Harrison, Stevie Nicks, Yoko Ono. I only like the '70s stars — I got that from my parents."
11. One of her least favorite traits is "phone face."
AKA people staring into their screens when she's talking to them. She says, "I feel like I’m in the series Black Mirror."
14. She was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role by the Irish Film and Television Academy.
This was in 2018, for her performance in a film called Kissing Candice, and she ended up losing to Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird. Stiff competition!
15. Her sexy and dramatic miniseries Death and Nightingales is airing in the US in May.
She starred in the period drama alongside megastars Jamie Dornan and Matthew Rhys. Described as "a riveting story of love, betrayal, deception, and revenge," it originally aired in 2018 and is coming to Starz on May 16.
