This list of notable actors from Ireland includes performers in film, television, stage, and radio.
Born in the 17th and 18th centuries
Spranger Barry (1719–1777) Maria Ann Campion (1777–1803) Thomas Doggett (1640–1721) Anna Marcella Giffard (1707–1777) Elizabeth O'Neill (1791–1872)
Born 1800–1849
Ada Dyas (1843–1908)
Born 1850–1899
Born in the 1900s
Noel Purcell (1900-1985) George Brent (1904–1979) Harry Brogan (1904–1977) Cathleen Delany (1907–1977) Hilton Edwards (1903–1982) (born in London) Joan Henley (1904–1986) Ria Mooney (1903–1973) Shelah Richards (1903–1985) Eve Watkinson (1909–1999)
Born in the 1910s
Cyril Cusack (1910–1993) (born in South Africa; Irish-English) Eithne Dunne (1919–1988) Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913–2005) Marie Kean (1918–1993) Dan O'Herlihy (1919–2005) (naturalised American citizen) Maureen O'Sullivan (1911–1998) (naturalised American citizen) Micheline Patton (1912–2001)