Marian Tomas Griffin
Born in New York City and raised in County Mayo, Ireland, Marian has been a part of the New York music, theatre and film scene for the past 8
years and now resides in Los Angeles.
As lead singer and guitarist with traditional Irish bands including Aisling Eire or as a solo performer Marian has entertained audiences at
Tir Na Nog, Fitzer's, Tommy Makem's, Fibber McGee's, Paddy Reilly's and the
Guinness
Fleadh to name just a few. Her first CD Tales Of Erin released in 1998 featured the single Angela's Smile inspired by Frank McCourt's Pulitzer prize winning memoir Angela's Ashes.
When Conor McCourt approached Marian to provide a song for his documentary The McCourt's of Limerick which aired on Cinemax in March 1998, he had no idea of the phenomenal reaction Angela's Smile would bring. The first national exposure of this song was Marian's appearance with Frank McCourt on CBS's Off-Tenth.
Her latest CD Downtown
Monday
Night,
featured
here on her CD page.
As a member of the Irish Repertory Theatre Marian made her debut in Frank McCourt's The Irish and How They Got That Way . Time Out Magazine called her
the most talented of the lot and John Simon of New York Magazine said
Marian, who acts, sings and plays several instruments, besides looking like a more delicate Maureen O'Hara, I simply lost my heart
to
her.
At the Irish Repertory Theatre Marian also appeared in The Shaughran. Marian has had the honor of appearing on Broadway
for 3 years running as part of the Irish Repertory Gala Benefit on Broadway with such stars as Gabriel
Bryne, Sinead Cusak, Tate Donovan, Eric Stoltz, Angela Lansbury, Vanessa Redgrave, Milo O'Shea, Frances Sternhagan and Kevin Spacey.
On screen Marian has worked with Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford in Columbia Picture's The Devil's Own, in Nye Heron's
Sax & Violins, and
and soon to be released
Days of Darkness directed by Jake Kennedy.
Marian starred in CBS's "As
The World Turns" as Mary Mennihan (Psycho Nanny), and appeared in the lead of Nova's docudrama "Typhoid Mary" in the Fall 2004.
