Marin Ireland

Marin Yvonne Ireland (born August 30, 1979) is an American stage, film and television actress. She won the 2009 Theatre World Award and was nominated for a 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in reasons to be pretty. 2Early life Ireland was born and raised in Camarillo, California. She studied at the Idyllwild Arts Foundation in Idyllwild, California as a child, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The Hartt School, the performing-arts conservatory at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut 2Stage She made her off-Broadway theatre debut in Nocturne (2001), a play written by Adam Rapp, which ran at the New York Theater Workshop. She also appeared in the play during its run in the American Repertory Theatre New Stages presentation at the Hasty Pudding Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts in October 2000. Her off-Broadway work includes Caryl Churchill's Far Away (2002) at the New York Theatre Workshop. She played the title role in Sabina (2005) by Willy Holtzman at Primary Stages. She was featured in the 2008 stage adaptation of The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, a series of lesbian pulp fiction novels by Ann Bannon. She appeared in the New Group revival of A Lie of the Mind in February and March 2010. She starred in the Lincoln Center Theatre production of Abe Koogler's "Kill Floor" in 201