Niamh Walsh

Niamh Walsh born 17 April 1988 is an Irish actress She is best known for her role as Cara Martinez the in BBC One medical drama Holby City Walsh also appeared in Casualty and Jekyll and Hyde She starred in the Sky 1 period drama Jamestown as Verity Rutter née Bridges Before production Walsh stated that she researched a lot for this role I love all that stuff Bill Gallagher used real people as the basis for some of his characters And by reading books about the period you learn little things that even if the audience doesnt see it it adds to your performance In 2021 Walsh appeared alongside Dervla Kirwan Seána Kerslake and GemmaLeah Devereux in the RTÉ One thriller drama series Smother in which she portrayed Jenny the eldest Ahern sibling In an article with the Irish Independent Walsh shared her interest in portraying one of the powerful and independent woman in the series as stated It took long enough but people are sort of realising that women are just as complicated as men We contain multitudes There arent just three types of women out there Its so comforting to see that were sort of just being allowed Were being allowed the complexity that men have been allowed for years We are no longer being jammed into boxes On 26 May 2021 Walsh was cast in the Netflix adaptation of DC Comicss The Sandman portraying the young Ethel Cripps