Phina Oruche

Summer 2010 see the release of her autobiography "Liberating Character" 

All queries about the book should go to Ita Driscoll   at Font Literary Dublin 

Tel: (00353)-1-853 2356

2010 saw the return to the screen.

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"Train up a child in the way he ought to grow and when he is old he won't depart from it" Proverb

Phina decided to take a 3 year "love" break, at the height of her popularity deciding not to return to the  hit UK and US drama's that brought her to our attention instead,  since she was newly married and a new mother  was intent on concentrating on "her boys". Something she will never regret. 

She is quoted as saying "they grow so fast, and you don't get the time back I want to have the private time to grow  and nurture my own little precious one, and learn how to be a mother away from scrutiny. You have to trust that you have something, and yours roles are your to return to. Anything thats mine has never passed me by".

Family matters but she is very happy to be back at work, in film.

... Maura’s situation with husband-to-be Wilson (Ariyon Bakare), who has promised Maura  €9,000 to marry him so that he can avoid being deported. Wilson’s girlfriend Emily (Phina Oruche) is at the wedding and it’s a shame Burke didn’t develop this particular triangle. Certain scenes could easily have been ditched and Oruche’s character should have been developed into a more central character, which would have offered the narrative much more comic scope.

Still, Burke has followed the screwball recipe well and promises to be a decent chef in the future.

Steven Galvin