Fake nun ‘Anna Christian’ revealed to be actor, pole dancer and martial artist

Rachel Mulcahy, aka ‘Anna Christian’, has been filmed participating in loyalist band parades recently and made a bizarre court appearance earlier this month demanding “£100m in damages” for being left lying in her own urine in a police cell.

However, it appears Mulcahy is a woman of many talents which include acting, presenting, modelling, dancing and theatre work, as well as martial arts.

According to the acting agency website, CastingNow.co.uk, her experience includes pole dancing, choreography, TV and fringe theatre, among others.

She is listed as having several dance skills including tap, salsa, jazz, acrobatics and the Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira.

Her acting experience is detailed on the website as being various types of theatre as well as musicals and she is also purported to be proficient in performing a Dublin accent.

Mulcahy, whose court address is given as Thorndale Avenue in north Belfast, is also listed as being from Co Down with an acting age range of 24 to 33.

However, Mulcahy insisted to this newspaper that she is no longer a nun, describing herself instead as a “pentecostal evangelist” and “Protestant unionist”.

She was also adamant she now officially goes by the name Anna Christian, while adding the description of her as a nun was “ruining my dating life”. “I’ll never find a husband,” she quipped in an email, laughing emoji included.

Shortly before this year’s Twelfth festivities, another video of her emerged on social media, this time scaling the Sandy Row bonfire in Belfast and waving a Union flag.

She can be seen clambering up the pallets before shouting “No surrender! This is scary! Hallelujah! Up the Sandy Row”.

At Laganside Magistrates Court in Belfast earlier this month, the 45-year-old claimed she was being represented by “the Holy Spirit” and said cops had left her with no access to hygiene products.

She is charged with two counts of obstructing traffic in a public place by lying on the road at Glengall Street and Chichester Street in Belfast on dates in February.

Mulcahy is regularly pictured and filmed walking on the streets of the city while issuing loud proclamations in public places.

She was also recently filmed taking part in a loyalist band parade while shouting obscenities about the Pope.

The case against her was mentioned at Laganside Magistrates Court on July 4 where she made a dramatic appearance in the public gallery.

Dressed head-to-toe in her phony religious garb, which includes a football-style name and number on the back reading ‘Christian, 7’, she denied being Rachel Mulcahy. Instead, she told the court: “I am HH (Her Holiness) Reverend Anna Christian.”

When asked by District Judge Peter Magill if she was representing herself, she added: “No, the Holy Spirit is representing me, according to the holy Bible and the Gospel of St Luke, your worship. I want £100m compensation for being left in a cell covered in my own urine and blood.”

Ignoring her bizarre pleas, District Judge Magill adjourned the case until next month.

Mulcahy was previously banned from attending services at a Belfast monastery and was held in Hydebank Women’s Prison for a spell earlier this year.

She “resigned” from the Catholic Church after receiving the banning order, later reinventing herself as a religious campaigner named Anna Christian.

Mulcahy has thousands of followers on TikTok and Instagram and regularly posts videos of her stunts, which include blocking roads.

In May 2022, she was banned from entering Clonard Monastery in west Belfast for four years after disrupting services while pretending to be a nun.