Dillie Keane
Dillie Keane was born in Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom on May 23rd, 1952 and is the Comedian. At the age of 71, Dillie Keane biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Louise Miriam "Dillie" Keane (born 23 May 1952) is an Olivier Award-nominated actress, singer and comedian.
She is perhaps best known as one third of the comedy cabaret trio Fascinating Aïda since its 1983 inception, but she has also had a prominent solo career.
Early life
Born in Portsmouth in 1952, Keane is the daughter of Frank Keane, a doctor from County Mayo, and Miriam Slattery, originally from Tralee, County Kerry, and was brought up in Portsmouth as a Roman Catholic. She has described her mother as something of a dragon.
She was educated at the strict Roman Catholic Woldingham School (or Sacred Heart), where she sang in the school choir and played the guitar on the "Folk Mass" album recorded by some of the girls at Abbey Road in 1967. She has described the School as disorganised. At the age of eighteen, she was expelled for going to see Fellini's Satyricon in London with boys from Worth School. Keane then crammed for A-levels and studied music at Trinity College, Dublin, but left the four-year course after three years and went on to study acting for three years at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Personal life
Keane was in a relationship with John O’Neill for over 22 years until his death from a stroke on 13 August 2022. She lives in Oxfordshire. She travels for her work, and particularly enjoys working in Ireland, the homeland of her parents.
In 2003, she was interviewed about driving a Ford Transit: "I'm colossally uninterested in cars... but vans are different. They're incredible fun to drive. You are practically always the bigger dog. People always back up in small country lanes to let you pass. And even lorry drivers are much nicer; they'll flash you to let you in."
In the local elections of 2017, she stood as a candidate for the Liberal Democrats in the Ploughley division of Oxfordshire County Council.
Career
Keane was nominated for a Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1990 for her one-woman theatre performance Single Again (Sean Hughes would win the award the following year) and then returned to Citizen Keane the following year. With Fascinating Ada, she was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment in 1995. Back With You, a one-woman performance that appeared in the United Kingdom and Germany, and she received the Best Comedy Award at the Moers Comedy Festival in 2001.
Keane wrote the songs for Sandi Toksvig's musical comedy Big Night Out at the Little Palace Theatre in 2002 (starring Toksvig and Bonnie Langford). A Slice of Life (1981) and Boat People (1983), among other things, are also available. Adèle Anderson has written songs for two pantomimes.
Keane continued her acting career, including touring performances of Dancing at Lughna and Charley's Aunt, Juno and the Paycock at the Leicester Haymarket; Accommodating Eva at the King's Head Theatre in Islington and Present Laughter at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. In 2002, she appeared in the premiere of The Valiant Monologues in Dublin. She appeared with Kit and The Widow in Tomfoolery in 2005 and in the premiere one-night only staging of a new musical version of Little Women at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
On a new national tour in 2006, Keane appeared alongside Jenny Eclair and Linda Robson in Grumpy Old Women Live and as the Duchess in Me and My Girl (2006). She appeared in Frank and Dolly, Lizzie Hopley's latest play, before going back on tour with Grumpy Old Women Live in 2007. Before returning to England and writing new songs for the 25th anniversary of Fascinating Ada, which appeared in For the Importance of Being Earnest, she spent a few weeks at the Jermyn Street Theatre.
She appeared in (and produced with Barb Jungr) The Lovely Russell Concert, which commemorated Russell Churney's life and colleague Russell Churney's death on June 29, 2008. Fascinating Afda and Fascinating Afta toured England in 2009 and released a new album.
Keane has appeared in documentaries about Fascinating Ada, as well as in films with Richard Griffiths and Samantha Janus in Pie in the Sky and with Phil Cool on a number of his series.
Keane has written and spoken on radio for shows including Stop the Week, 4th Column, Booked! Call Me When You're in Something (which also won the Prix Monte Carlo).
On Sunday (1993–95), Keane was a columnist for the Mail, and he wrote two books in connection with Fascinating Ada: The Joy of Sequins (1995) and Fascinating Who? (1985) The era (1985)