Jade Yourell

Short Biography

A native of Galway, Jade has worked with some of Ireland’s most influential and innovative directors for stage and screen. She is familiar to Irish television audiences from her appearances in several seasons of the beloved Dublin soap opera Fair City as Jasmine and guest starring roles in RTE’s RAW and BBC’s Vexed with Toby Stephens.She made her film debut starring in the feature Waiting for Dublin with Andrew Keegan, and next in Happy Ever Afters, opposite Golden Globe winner Sally Hawkins, for which she was nominated for an IFTA (Irish Film and Television Award – the Irish equivalent of the Oscars) for Best Actress in a Leading Role. The film premiered at the Pusan Film Festival in Korea before release in international markets.In 2013 she will appear in the Jimi Hendrix biopic ‘All Is by My Side’ with Andre 3000 and the feature film ‘The Food Guide to Love’ with Richard Coyle.She is also one of the most in-demand voice-over artists in the country, from her multiple television and radio splashes, including extensive campaigns for Oxy and ABC’s Desperate Housewives. In 2006 Jadealso lent her vocal talent to the x-box video game Dreamfall:The Longest Journey.In Theatre, She made her professional debut in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, beginning a longstanding association there. She has appeared in a variety of productions there. These included Pinter’s Celebration, directed by Wayne Jordan, Steven Berkoff’s Salomé and an adaptation of Festen directed by Selina Cartmell. With director Alan Stanford she has appeared in Wilde’s An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, Maugham’s The Constant Wife and Coward’s Present Laughter, the last two of which also toured to the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina.Jade has also worked with several other Irish companies, including the Town Hall Theatre in Galway, and was featured in the world premiere of Gerard Stembridge’s That Was Then at the Abbey Theatre.