BERNADETTE QUIGLEY
BERNADETTE QUIGLEY
Bernadette Quigley is an American stage, film, television and voice-over actress. Ms. Quigley most recently shot a supporting role in Jim Sheridan’s DREAM HOUSE, starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz & Naomi Watts. Bernadette’s other film and television appearances include Holger Ernst’s The House Is Burning, Jim Sheridan’s Oscar-nominated In America, Barbet Shroeder’s Before and After, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Third Watch, and last season’s Kings, starring Ian McShane.
Bernadette played Chris in the National Tour of Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa, having understudied the Tony Award-winning play on Broadway. Off-Broadway credits include Staci Swedeen’s The Goldman Project, directed by Joe Brancato (Abingdon Theatre); Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan (Actors Studio); God of Vengeance (Jewish Repertory); and extensive work at the Irish Arts Center in such plays as Billy Roche’s Poor Beast in the Rain & Kenneth Branagh’s Public Enemy, directed by Nye Heron.
Regionally her leading roles have ranged from Agnes in Tracy Letts’ Bug (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis) to Maureen in The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Virginia Stage) -- co-starring Eileen Brennan -- to Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Cincinnati Playhouse), for which she received the Cincinnati Enquirer Acclaim Award for Outstanding Actress. Bernadette has also performed at Williamstown Theatre, Bay Street Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory, Long Wharf Theatre, Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre, Triad Stage, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, and many others.
Quigley has narrated many audiobooks and commercial voiceovers, has read short stories for Symphony Space/PRI’s Selected Shorts broadcast, and is featured on Symphony Space’s 2010 Audie nominated A Touch of Magic CD as well as their Bloomsday on Broadway XXIV CD, which also features Stephen Colbert and many other extraordinary performers.
Bernadette is also an avid gardener, an acting & dialect coach, and a co-producer of her husband, Don Rosler’s upcoming CD, Rosler’s Recording Booth.