Maggie Cronin is an Irish actress and playwright. The Short film The Shore directed by Terry George, in which she appears with Ciarán Hinds, Conleth Hill and Kerry Condon, won the Academy award in the Short Film, Live Action category at 84th Academy Awards in February 2012. She appeared in Doctors (BBC1 TV) from 2000 -2004 playing the role of Kate McGuire for over 600 episodes. In 2006 she briefly returned when Christopher Timothy's character Brendan "Mac" McGuire left the series In 2016 she appeared as Ellen Quinn in My Mother And Other Strangers and also in The Frankenstein Chronicles ITV Encore.