The same year, she had a series regular role as Naoise O'Neill in the second season of Family Law, in which Tina Lifford played a recurring part. She moved to Los Angeles in 2001, where she met English photographer Nick Brandt, whom she married in December 2002. She also had a co-starring role in the 1999 Hallmark Channel fantasy miniseries The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns where she acted alongside Colm Meaney and Whoopi Goldberg. In 1997-98, she co-starred in the comedy series Noah's Ark, and played the female lead in the 1998 television adaptation of Wuthering Heights. In 1995-96, she starred in the police drama series Out of the Blue as Detective Rebecca 'Becky' Bennett. She made her feature film debut in 1994's Words Upon the Window, an adaptation of William Butler Yeats's play of the same name. Her first on screen appearances were guest spots on British series So You Think You've Got Troubles, Minder, The Bill, Absolutely Fabulous, and The Rector's Wife in the early 1990s. She debuted on the English stage in the Royal National Theatre's production of Blinded by the Sun and since developed a career in both Irish and British theatre.

Moving back to Ireland, she became a prolific stage actress, first at the Balloonatics Theatre Company, appearing in touring productions of Hamlet and Finnegan's Wake, then at the Dublin's Gate Theatre, where she played Adele in House of Bernarda Alba and Natasha in Three Sisters. At age 25, she moved to Paris, France for a year and studied at Philippe Gaulier's acting school and Marcel Marceau's school of mime arts. She studied at the Loreto Convent Catholic girls' school in Wicklow and an Ursuline Convent in Dublin.

Brady was born in Dublin and lived in Bray, County Wicklow until age 7.

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