# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-doyle-kennedy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:22:11.941Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-doyle-kennedy"
name: "Maria Doyle Kennedy"
slug: "maria-doyle-kennedy"
description: "Maria Josephine Doyle Kennedy is an Irish singer and actress. With a singing and acting career that has spanned more than 30 years, she has established herself as one of Ireland's most prolific artists and entertainers. As an actress, she is best known for her extensive television roles as Patsy in Father Ted (1998), Catherine of Aragon in The Tudors (2007–2010), Vera Bates in Downton Abbey (2011), Siobhán Sadler in Orphan Black (2013–2017), and Jocasta Cameron in Outlander (2018–2022). More recently in 2022, she starred as the Scottish journalist Tannie Maria in the series Recipes for Love and Murder, set in the Karoo in South Africa and adapted for the screen from the book of the same name by Sally Andrew."
tagline: "Irish singer"
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gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1964-09-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump