Valene Kane was born on January 30, 1987, in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

While acting didn't run in the family, success and drive is in the genes – her dad Val Kane was a successful Down county Gaelic footballer and coach.
Kane was born on 28 July 1993, in Walthamstow, London. "Val, a former PE teacher and vice-principal at Abbey CBS Grammar School, Newry, explains that he was off due to having had surgery on his throat and swapped the training pitch to become "the taxi driver for Valene as she went from feis to feis". Kane was born and raised in Newry, County Down. "I just saw Billy Piper in [Federico Garcia Lorca's intense drama] Yerma and it was mind-blowing. Kane captained Down to the All-Ireland title in 1994. Atheist model, 27, and her footballer fiance, 26, win their High Court fight for their humanist wedding to be legally recognised. The Belfast Telegraph is a member of IPSO and subscribes to its Editors' Code of Practice Val Kane She is the girl of previous footballer and coach Val Kane.

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And he's a nice family man, not big-headed at all. And he's incredibly handsome, like a model. With her long dark hair, pale skin, slim build and pretty face, Valene, as Rose Stagg in the drama series, is exactly killer Phil Spector's type - and the opposite of his tall, curvy blonde wife, played by Bronagh Waugh. YOU could say Valene Kane is an actress prone to perilous situations – being kidnapped by a crazed Jamie Dornan in The Fall is only one of them – but in her latest role, the Newry-born star of Thirteen and Rogue One: A Star Wars Stor’, faces danger of a different kind.In new BBC one-off drama Counsel, Kane steps into the killer heels of “alpha female” Olivia, a barrister who complicates her professional and personal life when persuaded to take on the case of a schoolboy client played by newcomer, Adam Gillian.“On the surface, Olivia has it all: a powerful career and a husband [Declan Conlon] who is in the running for Lord Chief Justice – but she is growing tired of playing second fiddle…” teases the actress, speaking down the line from London where she lives with husband and fellow actor, Ed Cooper Clarke.“When we meet Olivia, she’s sort of at a crossroads and doesn’t realise she is a little bit dead inside, so, when she meets this young boy, he ignites this free spirit inside her; a free spirit she didn’t realise existed.”The actress, who is currently filming HBO crime series Gangs of London and recently walked the red carpet at the Sundance Film Festival in the US – for the premiere of her latest movie, Sonja: The White Swan – was delighted to be back in Northern Ireland for the project, commissioned through the BBC’s New Perspectives initiative.Penned by newcomer David Allen and directed by Declan Recks (The Truth Commissioner), Counsel showcases the emerging talent of Gillian as 18-year-old Gareth Fleming, a motherless young student whose educational future hangs in the balance after his father suffers a stroke and is unable to pay mounting school fees.“It was so good to be back home again and involved in this project,” Kane enthuses. "I add pictures and textures of how I see her and pick songs for a play list I listen to before going on set. When she went over for an interview at London Central School of Drama I told her she would being going on her own," the 71-year-old confesses. "She is grateful for the opportunities the series has given her globally.