Ripping roles put McKenna on the spot

Despite parts in RTÉ’s Raw and the BBC’s Ripper Street, Charlene McKenna still worries about working, she tells Rachel Borrill

AWARD-WINNINGactress Charlene McKenna faces a real dilemma this Sunday. Does she watch herself in RTE’s popular new series of Raw? Or tune into BBC1 and see herself playing a prostitute in Ripper Street?

“I know it’s insane,’ she says laughing. “I can’t quite believe it and it is very exciting. I like being diverse, I don’t want to get pigeon-holed as a one-trick pony.”