Bairbre Dowling

Bairbre Dowling (27 March 1953 – 20 January 2016) was an Irish actress. She was born in Dublin as Barbara Patricia Dowling, the daughter of actor Vincent Dowling and actress Brenda Doyle, who died in a car crash in 2016. She had three sisters, Louise, Valerie and Rachel, and a half-brother, Cian. Between 1982 and 1994 she was married to actor Colm Meaney, with whom she had a daughter, Brenda, in 1984.

Dowling acted with her husband in the PBS television film Playboy of the Western World in 1983, in John Huston's 1987 film The Dead, and in the 1994 drama War of the Buttons.