Who Is The Irish Actress In The Vodafone Christmas Avert 2017

[PaulaParkinson]

Who is the Irish actress in the Christmas Vodafone advert 2017

[Old_Geezer]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Adverts/Question1578759.html

[Old_Geezer]

Interesting. Someone's deleted the first one.

[Mamyalynne]

Have searched and not able to pin her down as yet, it's all about Martin in the write ups.

Duplicates often get removed OG, saves confusion.

[Dawnie7]

Lisa Diveney

[Old_Geezer]

Increases confusion when the earlier one linked to is deleted.

[Mamyalynne]

Just stay on the one that's here, the other had no replies.

[Mamyalynne]

Well found Dawnie.

[Buenchico]

Lisa Diveney has, as Dawnie suggests, been mentioned in a post on Vodafone's own Youtube channel. She certainly looks very similar:
https://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/424261DIVENEYLisanew002.jpg

However I'm still trying to work out her accent in the ad. According to The Drum (which is a leading newsletter for the media industry), the character (Claire) is meant to be Scottish (and all the ads were filmed in Scotland). Lisa Diveney is actually Welsh but possibly trying to put on a Scottish accent. To PaulaParkinson the end result sounds Irish, while I can hear 'mid-Atlantic' elements in there!

[BilSuth]

Her accent sounds pretty neutral to me. I see from Wiki that she is Welsh, and drama-trained in Cardiff.
I am more amused at Martin F's "This is me" when his train arrives. I always used to think this was just a Glaswegian colloquialism but I always wonder what a foreign visitor makes of such idioms, trying to translate it literally. Sounds wonderfully existentialist, doesn't it?

[Buenchico]

^^^ "It is me" seems to be used on the other side of the Atlantic too, Bill:
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/this-is-me-meaning.2977579/

[Buenchico]

^^^ I meant to type "This is me"!

I'll put my error down to alcohol deprivation tonight ;-)

[Fanriffic]

This ad was filmed at Wemyss Bay Railway Station on the Inverclyde - Wemyss Bay to Glasgow line. It has just been refurbished back to it's former glory. You also catch the ferry from this station over to the Isle of Bute for Rothesay.