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25-07-06 news EXCLUSIVE WITH PHOTOS
Sarah Bolger: Ireland's Only FHH???

With a glowing natural beauty and an awe inspiring on screen presence, teenage actress Sarah Bolger, could be Ireland's only potential F.H.H. (Female Hollywood Hope)...

SARAH BOLGER @ CARS MOVIE PREMIERE

Here at ShowBiz Ireland we've been harping on for years about the apparent dichotomy between Irish male & Irish female actors' levels of international success with the men leaving their fairer colleagues in-the-shade.

SARAH BOLGER @ CARS MOVIE PREMIERE

Every time we bring up this unbalanced duality and ask the question: Why do we have such a glut of Irish leading men in Hollywood and not even one Irish actress equaling their success? We get tons of emails claiming sexism and pointing towards Brenda Fricker's Oscar for My Left Foot.

SARAH BOLGER @ CARS MOVIE PREMIERE

But let's face it - with Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Peirce Brosnan and Liam Neeson grabbing most big roles in Hollywood and with the likes of Stuart Townsend, Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Rea, Peter O'Toole and Colm Meaney being amongst the busiest actors on-the-globe, the question has to be asked: Where are our female actresses?

SARAH & EMMA BOLGER @ CARS MOVIE PREMIERE

Well, we're still scratching our heads on that one (answers on a postcard!) - but there's hope-on-the-horizon in the petit form of Dublin teenager Sarah Bolger who has most industry insiders now whispering that she has all the ingredients of a future leading lady...

PAT KENNY WITH SARAH & EMMA BOLGER @ CARS MOVIE PREMIERE

First gaining prominence after her younger sister Emma demanded that Jim Sheridan cast her as the other daughter in In America, she then outshone all others in Tara Road and is currently doing the media rounds promoting her latest movie Stormbreaker - Sarah Bolger looks set for the Big Time!

PAT KENNY WITH DAUGHTERS NIKKI, CHRISTINE & NICOLE @ CARS MOVIE PREMIERE

ShowBiz Ireland caught up with the pretty actress at the weekend as she attended the Disney Pixar Premiere of CARS in Cineworld along with Pat Kenny, Marty Whelan and their kids.

MARTY WHELAN & SON THOMAS @ CARS MOVIE PREMIERE

And what a nice, down-to-earth girl she is - blissfully unaware that we have all our hopes for an Irish F.H.H. firmly pinned on her shoulders... Well, someone had to say it!

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