Smother star Gemma-Leah Devereux is the Irish actress to have on your radar

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It’s not every actress who would be happy with someone taking a razor to their lovely locks for the sake of a role. But then Gemma-Leah Devereux is not every actress.

The 30-year-old Dubliner is as happy working alongside an Oscar winner in a big budget movie as she is filming an indie script with a little-known cast – as long as the work is right.

After playing a cancer patient in the film The Bright Side, Gemma-Leah went straight into something completely different as Anna Ahern in RTÉ’s new drama Smother, which begins tomorrow, her pixie crop being the only tell-tale sign of her previous role.

In Smother, Gemma-Leah plays Anna, a daughter and stepdaughter turned stepmother herself, who finds her family at the centre of a murder inquiry