Anna Murray (Anna Mhoireach)

Anna began her acting career in 1992 as Mairead NicAsgaill in the first episode of the STV drama series ‘Machair’ and went on to feature in every one of the nine series to date of the ground-breaking Gaelic soap. She has appeared in STV’s ‘Taggart’ and in 1996 played leading roles in the Lochran/BBC productions ‘Am Posadh Hiortach’ (The St Kilda Wedding), a costume drama/documentary; and ‘A Bhean Eudach’ (The Jealous Sister), a short film screened at the 1997 Celtic Film Festival and Edinburgh Film Festival.

Over the past five years Anna has presented a range of Gaelic programmes for the BBC, as well as Grampian and other independent television companies. For the BBC she has featured in the long-running pre-school children’s programme ‘Dotaman’ and ‘The Year of the Prince’ for the Around Scotland schools history series. She presented the first series of Grampian’s ‘Iobalag Obalag’ magazine for older children and Eala Bhan/STV’s light entertainment series ‘Bi-Beo’.

Anna has featured as a performer as well as presenter in the Grampian music programmes ‘Fir Chlis’ and ‘Aite mo Ghaoil’, and as a musician on ‘Talla Bhaile’ (BBC), ‘Tele nan Gaidheal’ (BBC), ‘Cuin is Caite’ (STV) and ‘Tacsi’ (Eolas/STV).

Anna has just finished a very busy summer. She has presented a series of the arts programme Tacsi for Eolas and BBC Scotland. She has recorded a new series of Dotaman for BBC Scotland and played a role in the Gaelic drama produced in Lewis called Falach Fead.