Biography - Ali trained at the Gaiety School of Acting. For the Abbey Theatre, Ali played Anna in Closer by Patrick Marber and Susanne in The House (Tom Murphy) and was nominated for an ESB/Irish Times Theatre Award for both performances. Other roles for the Abbey include Chrissie in Dancing At Lughnasa, Maire in Translations, Kate in Philadelphia, Here I come! and Helen in The Trojan Women. Other theatre work includes The School for Scandal, Northern Star, Lady Windermeres Fan and Love and a Bottle (Time Out Award) for Rough Magic; Aristocrats, The Double Dealer and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Gate Theatre; Silas Marner and Hard Times for Storytellers; Cheapside for Druid Theatre Company; Factory Girls for Bickerstaffe and two seasons at The Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Ali was most recently in Dancing at Lughnasa for The Abbey theatre, Dublin. Outside Ireland she has appeared in The Steward of Christendom with Out of Joint; The Silver Tassie at the Almeida; Pygmies in the Ruins at The Royal Court; The Importance of Being Earnest at The West Yorkshire Playhouse and Playhouse Creatures at The Old Vic. Film and television work includes Dr. Rose Casey in No Tears, Mary in When Brendan Met Trudy, Dorothy in A Love Divided(Parallel); Old New Borrowed Blue (Revolution Films); The Ambassador (BBC) and Frankie McCafferty's Flush (Flush Films). Ali is a frequent performer in RTE Radio Drama and BBC Radio Ulster. Ali wrote and co-created Any Time Now: a six one-hour comedy drama series for RTE/BBC, starring Susan Lynch, Zara Turner and Angeline Ball. She has also worked as sceenwriter on the last three series of The Clinic for Parallel Films/RTE and a number of other TV projects currently in development.