Roma Downey (born 6 May 1960) is an Irish actress and producer, best known as Della Reese's angel/employee, Monica, the main character of the TV series Touched by an Angel.
Downey was born and raised in a Catholic environment in Derry. She attended grammar school at Thornhill College. Originally, Downey thought she would be a painter and earned a BA at Brighton College of Art, England. But she turned her attention to acting and had a classical tr...
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Roma Downey (born 6 May 1960) is an Irish actress and producer, best known as Della Reese's angel/employee, Monica, the main character of the TV series Touched by an Angel.
Downey was born and raised in a Catholic environment in Derry. She attended grammar school at Thornhill College. Originally, Downey thought she would be a painter and earned a BA at Brighton College of Art, England. But she turned her attention to acting and had a classical training attending Drama Studio London, where she performed in the plays of Shakespeare, Shaw, and Chekhov.
She joined the Abbey Players in Dublin, and toured the United States in a production of The Playboy of the Western World. The production led to a nomination during the Broadway run for the Helen Hayes Best Actress Award in 1991.Roma also starred on Broadway in "The Circle" with Sir Rex Harrison and also at the Roundabout theater and the Public Theater in NYC
With her growing popularity, Downey gained the role of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy...
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