Olwen Catherine Kelly (born 1987) is an Irish actress as well as a model, who is best known for starring in the title role of the 2016 thriller horror movie The Autopsy of Jane Doe”. Apart from this, she is also widely recognized for appearing in movies such as Darkness on the Edge of Town” (2014) and “Winter Ridge” (2018).

Olwen was born in 1987 in the town of Celbridge in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland, and apart from being of Irish nationality, she is also of white ethnicity.

She is a respected daughter of Mr. Peter Kirwan and Mr.s

Maureen. Her

father worked as an insurance broker. During

her childhood days, she received a lot of love and care from her sister and brothers. She

is one out of five children. The

majority of her childhood Kelly spent in Ireland’s capital of Dublin, growing up alongside her sister and three brothers.

Before diving into the world of movie making, Olwen began her working career as a retailer.

However, interested in acting from an early age, she later decided to try her luck as an actress, and in 2014 made her debut on-camera acting appearance.

She was cast for the leading female role – the character of Aisling Callahan inPatrick Ryan crime drama western movie “Darkness on the Edge of Town”, starring opposite Emma Eliza Regan and Brian Gleeson.

The movie received positive reviews from the audience, and was honored with a nomination for the Grand Jury Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2015, while Olwen presented her acting potential to the world and stepped onto the path to stardom.

In 2016, Kelly made a brief, supporting appearance in an episode of the TV comedy series “Why Life Sucks When You’re in Your 20s”, while later that year the real breakthrough in her career occurred – she was cast for the title role in the supernatural thriller horror movie entitled “The Autopsy of Jane Doe”.

The plot follows the story of two coroners who get involved in a mysterious Autopsy of an unidentified young woman (Jane Doe) which spontaneously triggers a series of supernatural events. Although starring just as a corpse whose tongue was cut out, lungs blackened from third degree burns, ankles and wrists chattered, her portrayal of Jane Doe has become one of her most notable and memorable on-camera performances so far. She received praise for this whole performance, which included lying nude and perfectly still for up to eight hours a day over the course of five weeks of filming.

In order to conjure up a corpse as good as it gets, she relied on yoga and meditation.

The movie was directed by Norwegian director André Øvredal, and earned several accolades such as Special Prize of the Jury at the Sitges – Sitges Film Festival, Jury Prize at the Monster Fest as well as the Fantastic Fest Jury Award, Chainsaw Award and the Audience Award at the Celluloid Screams Sheffield Horror Film Festival, while also making $6 million profit at the box office.

Darkness on the Edge of Town (2014)

Why Life Sucks When You're in Your 20s: It's Contagious (2016) TV Series

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)Winter Ridge (2018)

Aside from her successful on-camera acting career, she has also come into the limelight as a prominent model.

In her modeling career so far, Kelly has collaborated with a vast number of fashion and lifestyle magazines, and appeared on the pages of publications such as the Irish Independent, P, 708, Autre, Crack and Idle Magazine to name a few. Besides these accomplishments, she has also collaborated with big clothing and cosmetics brands and retailers including Next, TK Maxx, La Perla Lingerie, Coco de Mer London as well as Elgon Cosmetics Italia, Susana Mota and Philip Kingsley. To her modeling portfolio, she has also added various photo shoots with acclaimed photographers such as Raffaele Marone, Keith Clouston, Lee Malone and Sarah Marie Collins among plenty of others.

Olwen is also quite active on popular Social media networks Instagram, on which her official account has amassed over 60,000 fans and followers so far.

It is estimated that the total of her net worth, as of mid-2019, revolves around the sum of $500,000, with an estimated minimum annual income of close to $100,000.

It has all been acquired through her endeavors in the movie making industry, and modeling business.