If there’s a word that quickly sums up the roles that Niamh Algar has taken on since her breakout turn in Shane Meadows drama The Virtues, it’s surely ‘intense.’
Whether the Irish actress, 29, is playing an undercover detective under severe psychological pressure in true crime drama Deceit, a film classifier drawn in by video nasties in indie horror Censor or, as in her new TV series Suspect, a woman grieving her partner’s unexplained death, she brings a blazing energy to the screen that’s impossible to look away from - and, you imagine, impossible to phone in.
