Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 18, 1948
Place of Birth
Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland
Credits
97 titles
Sinéad Cusack
Biography
Sinéad Moira Cusack (born February 18, 1948) is an Irish actress. Her first acting roles were at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, before moving to London in 1969 to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has won the Critics' Circle and Evening Standard Awards for her performance in Sebastian Barry's Our Lady of Sligo. Cusack has received two Tony Award nominations: once for Best Leading Actress in Much Ado About Nothing (1985), and again for Best Featured Actress in Rock 'n' Roll (2008). She has also received five Olivier Award nominations for As You Like (1981), The Maid's Tragedy (also 1981), The Taming of the Shrew (1983), Our Lady of Sligo (1998) and Rock 'n' Roll (2007). In 2020, she was listed at number 25 on The Irish Times' list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sinéad Cusack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
The Three Urns
Deirdre
Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now
Self
And Mrs.
Lorraine
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
This Is Not An Attack On Your Parenting
National Theatre Live: People, Places and Things
Doctor/Thrapist/Mum
Napoleon
Letizia Bonaparte
North Sea Connection
Moira Kenny
The Baby
Barbara
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
Self
Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
Self
MotherFatherSon
Maggie Barns
National Theatre Live: King Lear
Kent
Beast
Penelope
Marcella
Sylvie Gibson
Queen & Country
Grace Rohan
Stonehearst Asylum
Mrs. Pike
37 Days
Margot Asquith
The Sea
Anna Morden
Wrath of the Titans
Clea
Camelot
Sybil
The Deep
Meg Sinclair
Cracks
Miss Nieven
A Room with a View
Miss Lavish
A Room with a View
Miss Lavish
Eastern Promises
Helen
The Tiger's Tail
Oona O'Leary
Home Again
V for Vendetta
Delia Surridge
Mathilde
Wife of Col. De Petris
Summer Solstice
Elfrida
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Mary Doyle
Dad
Sandy James
Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love
North & South
Hannah Thornton
Winter Solstice
Elfrida Phibbs
Winter Solstice
Elfrida Phibbs
I Capture the Castle
Mrs Cotton
Dream
Kathleen
My Mother Frank
Frances 'Frank' Kennedy
Passion of Mind
Jessie
The Nephew
Brenda O'Boyce
Food for Ravens
Jennie Lee
Midsomer Murders
Stella Harris
Stealing Beauty
Diana Grayson
Oliver's Travels
WPC Diane Priest
Uncovered
Menchu
Sparrow
Matilde
Bad Behavior
Ellie McAllister
The Cement Garden
Mother