She had a sense that Irish theatre, TV and film was about to explode, though there was little evidence for this at the timeTeri Hayden, who has died after a long illness, was a trailblazing agent who guided the careers of many notable Irish actors including Brendan Gleeson and Gabriel Byrne.Many Irish men and women fought in the second World War fought for reasons far removed from ideologyIn the early 1980s, Hayden saw an opportunity in the growing demand for actors’ representation in Ireland.
Despite the offer of a lucrative buyout by a big Hollywood agency, she refused to surrender her independence. Hayden was inordinately proud of her profession and regarded it as a privilege to represent her actors both at home and abroad. In online tributes, the actor Pauline McLynn called her “a wondrous woman”. The former director of the Abbey – now chief executive of the Digital Hub – Fiach Mac Conghail wrote that she was “indomitable in support of her actors and she was an important part of the Irish theatre, TV and film industry”. The actor Deirdre Donnelly wrote: “Teri was my agent for over 40 years, and I owe her so much. She was always supportive, loyal and reassuring – a consummate professional.
She was born Teresa Marie O’Connor into a middle-class Irish republican family in Derry in 1948, and completed her secondary education in Ballycastle. She later emigrated to Manchester, where she studied economics. She moved to Dublin to work in RTÉ, where she met Hilliard Hayden, the father of her two children, Karl and Lisa. Their marriage ended after 13 years.
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