Ireland's most distinctive young character actress Evanna Lynch has just signed up to play a scandalous new role in whacked out true life crime drama Monster Butler.

Irish starlet Evanna Lynch recently skipped the pond to head to Los Angeles in hopes of expanding her film career. The Louth native is shacking up with cast members from the hit series ‘Glee’ while she’s in the States for about a month.

Harry Potter star Evanna Lynch is heading to Hollywood to try and cash in on her fame as Luna Lovegood with a little help from Harry Potter co-stars such as Daniel Radcliffe.

The “Harry Potter” era came to a close Saturday in Dublin as fans of the series lined up at the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part 2” premiere, to say their final goodbyes to a franchise that has been a part of them for the past 10 years.

For the second year in a row, die-hard fans of the “Harry Potter” series will have the opportunity to gather at LeakyCon 2011 along with special appearances from some of the loved series’ actors.

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It’s still early in 2011, but so far the Irish newcomer of the year has to be Colin O’Donoghue. The Drogheda native starred alongside Anthony Hopkins in the Exorcist-style thriller The Rite, which should be out on DVD soon. It was O’Donoghue’s film debut, and though some critics were a bit rough on the film, The Rite spent a week as the number one movie in America in January. O’Donoghue, 30, had previously starred (alongside fellow Irish thespian Jonathan Rhys Meyers) in the Showtime drama The Tudors. Prior to that, O’Donoghue had simply done theater work and television shows for Ireland’s TV network RTE. With his performance in The Rite (which also stars Irish screen veteran Ciaran Hinds), O’Donoghue certainly opened some eyes and set himself up for an interesting career. What’s next for O’Donoghue? He’s playing things coy. “I’ve got something else in the works,” he told About.com. “But I can’t talk about it.”

Harry Potter filming may be over but Irish actress Evanna Lynch, 19, is getting no rest. In the last two weeks she has attended premieres of the latest "Harry Potter" film (in which she also stars) in Norway, Sweden, Finland and England before attending the Irish premiere in Dublin last week.

Harry Potter's biggest Irish star has spent the last five years playing Luna Lovegood, a top magic student in Hogworts. But now the talented Irish actor is replacing her magic books with Leaving Certificates textbooks as she prepares to do her final year state exams back home in Ireland.

As the "Harry Potter" era comes to a close, many of the young stars who helped bring J.K. Rowling's books to the screen are facing questions about their future direction - to act or not to act?

Irish actress Evanna Lynch, who plays Luna Lovegood in the popular Harry Potter films, has won a prize for her artistic skills at her local high school.

In a new interview with the French Harry Potter website, actor Rhys Ifans (who plays the kindly wizard Xenophilius Lovegood) spoke about his experience making Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows with Irish actress Evanna Lynch.

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By: BUZZ BRADY

Irish actress Evanna Lynch has revealed how much she loves acting in the next Harry Potter film, the first part of "Harry Potter and Deadly Hallows," which will hit the big screens in November 2010.

“Harry Potter” star Evanna Lynch is headlining part of a grassroots effort to keep same sex marriage legal in the state of Maine.