Ger Ryan is an Irish film and television actress, whose credits include Queer as Folk, Family, The War of the Buttons, The Van, Moll Flanders, Intermission and Little Dog.^[1][2]

Ryan has twice been nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for Family and Amongst Women,^[3] and received several nominations in the Irish Film and Television Awards, including for Amongst Women, Intermission and The Return.^{[citation needed]} She is also a recipient of a Belfast Telegraph EMA Award in for her work on A Place with the Pigs and Song of the Yellow Bittern. In 2007, she received an IFTA for her work on the two-part docu-drama, Stardust, by RTÉ.^[4][5] She also played Margie McEvoy in the BBC drama series, The Street.^[6] She later played the role of Maeve Harte in RTÉ's drama series, Raw, and that of Mary Carroll in the 2013 romantic comedy, The Callback Queen.^[7]