Bairbre Dowling was born on March 27, 1953 in Dublin, Ireland as Barbara Patricia Dowling.
Dowling acted with her husband in the PBS television film Playboy of the Western World in 1983, in John Huston's 1987 film The Dead, and in the 1994 drama War of the Buttons.
In 1970 she was part of the company at the Abbey Theatre, where she appeared in The Becauseway (1970) and Rites (1973).
In 2011 she appeared in a play by Irish playwright Teresa Deevy, Temporal Powers; this was a Mint Theatre production presented as part of the Teresa Deevy project.
Bairbre was a member of The California Artists Radio Theatre ensemble and performed in over 30 of their live radio plays.
She died on January 20, 2016 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
