Dominique McElligott – Bio, Husband, Age, Facts About The Irish Actress

At the start of the new millennium, in 2001, Dominique McElligott began her career as a professional actress – a career that brought her closer to My Left Foot, a film released in 1989. After a decade of acting , the Irish actress made the transition to Hollywood in 2011, directing her first American project Hell on Wheels, an AMC television series where she played the role of Lily Bell – one of the main roles for a total of 19 episodes . McElligott only soared with each performance. Her notable credits have come to include The Woman Astronaut Club, as well as the highly acclaimed House of Maps

Dominique McElligott’s Biography & Age

TV star, Dominique McElligott was born on May 3, 1986 in Rathfarnham, Dublin, Ireland. Although her parents didn’t have show business careers, they were moviegoers, as can be seen in Dominique’s story, which explains how she decided to pursue an acting career.

A very young Dominique was watching the 1989 film, My Left Foot with her parents when she fell in love with Daniel’s performance by Day-Lewis, and at the end of the film, her parents began discussing the actor’s performance and young Dominique was completely amazed by the portrayal of the actress, which she deemed “cool” and thought she could probably do one day.

Her first step to becoming superhuman like DanielDay-Lewis was enrolling in an after-school acting school and in the process fell completely in love with everything that had to do with acting. In 2001, at the age of 15, Dominique McElligott was ready for life as an actress. She landed her first role as Cora Collins in the Irish drama series, Out in the Field

She would stay in Ireland for the next decade, doing small parts of TV shows including Echo Whisky, Being Human, and Raw. In film, she made her debut in 2008’s Dark Floors before appearing in the BAFTA-nominated British sci-fi film Moon

In 2010, Dominique McElligott had just finished filming a Western in Bolivia when her manager asked her to move to Los Angeles to improve her chances of bigger projects. Initially reluctant, McElligott later decided to comply with her manager’s request and the rest is history.

Her first American project – the role of Lily Bell in Wheel Heels was the breakthrough she craved. Up next was a role of Louise Shepard in The Woman Astronaut Club in 2015 and later in 2016 the role of Hannah Conway – the aspiring first wife and wife of Republican presidential candidate and veteran, Will Conway in House of cards

Dominique McElligott was also part of the main cast of the Amazon movie. The Last Mogul and the Superhero Drama Web Series, The Boys

Who is Dominique McElligott’s husband?

When it comes to McElligott’s love life and every other quirk of his personal life, fans shouldn’t really expect anything more than the basic facts. As of this writing, the only fact one can get about her married life is that the actress is single.

An old-fashioned person as she chose to describe herself, Dominique McElligott has no social media accounts and has said she will stay that way forever – a very bitter pill for her loyal fans to swallow.

McElligott has nothing against social media, she just doesn’t want people to know too much about her. With that, the media would definitely not be getting details about her romantic life anytime soon.

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Facts About Irish Actress

• As a child, Dominique McElligott took riding lessons which she perfected while filming for a western western in Bolivia. This latter experience would come in handy when she was cast as Lily in Heels on Wheels

• Her Heels on Wheels Lily Bell character was her second time starring as “Bell”; her character in the 2009 British film Moon was called Tess Bell.

• McElligott doesn’t really sound like a blockbuster, but that would have changed, as she was originally cast to play Gwen Stacy in 2012 ‘s The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), the role later went to Emma Stone.

• She practices yoga and loves to read.

• She returned to Ireland in 2017 for the first time in 10 years since leaving for LA in 2009. A dog lover, she made the trip with her dogs.

• The tall blonde actress stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches.