Saoirse-Monica Jackson

Saoirse-Monica Jackson is a Northern Irish actress born in Derry in November 1993. She is best known for her role as Erin Quinn in the Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls, which aired from 2018 to 2022. Jackson grew up splitting her time between Derry and Greencastle, County Donegal, where her parents owned a village pub. After completing her GCSEs and A-Levels at St Cecilia's College in Derry, she trained in acting at the Arden School of Theatre in Manchester. Jackson's television debut came in 2016 with a role in Harlan Coben's The Five and she also appeared in the Birmingham Repertory Theatre tour of Of Mice and Men that same year. In 2018, she portrayed Shena Carney in a West End production of The Ferryman at the Gielgud Theatre.