Hilda Fay


Hilda Fay is an Irish actor. She was nominated for an IFTA for best supporting actress for her role in whistlblower in 2009.
She graduated from Trinity College, Dublin's Samuel Beckett Centre. She has appeared on stage in the Gate Theatre's "Threpenny Opera" Abbey Theatre's productions Little Gem, which won the Carol Tambor award "the best of Edinburagh; she also shared the best actress award in the dublin fringe. She appeared in The Playboy of the Western World and "The Risen People" by james plunket. "Perve" Stacy Gregg, toured the nation with Tivoli Theatre's The Vagina Monologues and has been in The Woman Who Walked into Doors at the Olympia, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth at the Mill Theatre. Wayne Jordan's "Oedipus" at the Abbey, and "Tina's idea of fun" by Sean P Summers at the Peacock. She is best known for playing Tracey McGuigan in the Irish soap opera Fair City.
She was nominated in the category Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Television at the 6th Irish Film and Television Awards for her role in Whistleblower. She has also appeared in Finbar's Class, Ordinary Decent Criminal, Saltwater, Though the Sky Falls, Proof, Prosperity, On the Street Where You Live and The Clinic.
She married her fiancé Alan Vale in 2007.
In 2016 she toured North America with the Abbey theatres 100 year anniversary production of "Plough and the stars " playing Bessie Burges in which she was named in th 10 top performances in Boston of that year And has completed " Float like a butterfly'" for samson films and " The cured" for tilted pictures 2017. In 2018 she appeared at Roddy Doyle's World premier of "The snapper" at the Gate theatre.