Victoria Smurfit returns to Cork Film Festival

Victoria Smurfit returned to Ireland from LA to take a starring role in twisty thriller about to be screened at the Cork Film Festival, writes Esther McCarthy

ER knack for playing strong women on the big and small screen has made her one of our best-known exports. But sometimes there’s no place like home.

So when Victoria Smurfit recently found herself in the Offaly countryside working with cast and crew she’d known for years — including some she worked with at the very beginning of her career — she felt a sense of joy.