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Seána Kerslake

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Seána Kerslake
New York in the 90s: After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna (Margaret Qualley) gets hired as an assistant to Margaret (Sigourney Weaver), the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent of J. D. Salinger. Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office – where dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze off after three-martini lunches – and her nights in a sink-less Brooklyn apartment with her socialist boyfriend. Joanna’s main task is processing Salinger’s voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency’s impersonal standard letter and impulsively begins personalizing the responses. The results are both humorous and moving, as Joanna, while using the great writer’s voice, begins to discover her own.
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My Salinger Year (2020)
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Seána Kerslake is known for The Hole in the Ground (2019), A Date for Mad Mary (2016) and Dollhouse (2012).
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    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 9 nominations

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    James Quinn Markey in The Hole in the Ground (2019)
    The Hole in the Ground
    5.6
    • Sarah
    • 2019
    Seána Kerslake in A Date for Mad Mary (2016)
    A Date for Mad Mary
    7.0
    • Mary
    • 2016
    Johnny Ward, Kate Stanley Brennan, Jack Reynor, and Seána Kerslake in Dollhouse (2012)
    Dollhouse
    4.9
    • Jeannie
    • 2012
    Dervla Kirwan, Gemma-Leah Devereux, Seána Kerslake, and Niamh Walsh in Smother (2021)
    Smother
    6.6
    TV Series
    • Grace Ahern

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    Actress

    • Nathan Braniff, Katherine Devlin, and Sian Brooke in Blue Lights (2023)
      Blue Lights
      8.2
      TV Series
      • Margaret 'Mags' Thompson
      • 2024
    • Dervla Kirwan, Gemma-Leah Devereux, Seána Kerslake, and Niamh Walsh in Smother (2021)
      Smother
      6.6
      TV Series
      • Grace Ahern
      • 2021–2023
    • Seána Kerslake in Tar Anseo (2022)
      Tar Anseo
      Short
      • Micaela
      • 2022
    • Ballywalter (2022)
      Ballywalter
      7.4
      • Eileen
      • 2022
    • Bad Sisters (2022)
      Bad Sisters
      8.3
      TV Series
      • Theresa Claffin
      • 2022
    • Liam Neeson, Alan Cumming, Jessica Lange, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Danny Huston, Diane Kruger, and François Arnaud in Marlowe (2022)
      Marlowe
      5.4
      • Amanda Toxteth
      • 2022
    • Minnie Driver, Anna Paquin, Sophie Okonedo, Kit Harington, and Dominique Fishback in Modern Love (2019)
      Modern Love
      7.9
      TV Mini Series
      • Garda Molloy
      • 2021
    • Ewen Bremner in Creation Stories (2021)
      Creation Stories
      6.1
      • Yvonne
      • 2021
    • Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley in My Salinger Year (2020)
      My Salinger Year
      6.5
      • Jenny
      • 2020
    • Hilda Fay, Sarah Morris, Shaun Dunne, Seána Kerslake, Charleigh Bailey, and Shauna Higgins in Headcases (2019)
      Headcases
      7.0
      TV Series
      • Michelle
      • 2019
    • James Quinn Markey in The Hole in the Ground (2019)
      The Hole in the Ground
      5.6
      • Sarah
      • 2019
    • Nika McGuigan and Seána Kerslake in Can't Cope, Won't Cope (2016)
      Can't Cope, Won't Cope
      7.3
      TV Series
      • Aisling
      • 2016–2018
    • We Ourselves (2018)
      We Ourselves
      6.5
      • Una
      • 2018
    • Dublin Oldschool (2018)
      Dublin Oldschool
      6.0
      • Gemma
      • 2018
    • A Long Shot (2016)
      A Long Shot
      7.8
      Short
      • Sarah
      • 2016

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    My Salinger Year
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    My Salinger Year
    The Hole in the Ground
    Trailer 2:11
    The Hole in the Ground
    A Date for Mad Mary
    Trailer 1:47
    A Date for Mad Mary
    Dollhouse
    Trailer 1:32
    Dollhouse

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      • 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)

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