Brenda Fricker
Brenda Fricker (born 17 February 1945) is an Irish actress, whose career has spanned six decades on stage and screen. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television roles. In 1990, she became the first Irish actress to win an Academy Award, earning the award for Best Supporting Actress for the biopic My Left Foot (1989). She also appeared in films such as The Field (1990), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), So I Married An Axe Murderer (1993), Angels in the Outfield (1994), A Time to Kill (1996), Veronica Guerin (2003), Inside I'm Dancing (2004) and Albert Nobbs (2011). Description above from the Wikipedia article Brenda Fricker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
as Pigeon LadyInstead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a...
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A Time to Kill
as Ethel TwittyA young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old...
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
as Mrs. BrownNo one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class...
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Angels in the Outfield
as Maggie NelsonRoger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's...
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So I Married an Axe Murderer
as May MackenzieJust after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels and...
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Closing the Ring
as EleanorDuring the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love...
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The Miracle Club
as Maureen (voice)Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the...
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Veronica Guerin
as Bernie GuerinIn this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the...
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Albert Nobbs
as PollyAlbert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to...
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The Field
as Maggie McCabe"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the...
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Inside I'm Dancing
as EileenMichael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore...
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Trauma
as PetraAwaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as...
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Cloudburst
as DotWhen Dot's granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot...
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A Man of No Importance
as Lily ByrneAlfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of...
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Tara Road
as MonaA grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
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Moll Flanders
as madame MazzawattyThe daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of...
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Masterminds
as Principal Claire MaloneyA rebellious teen uses his talent for pranks to outwit the security consultant who has taken the...
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Stone of Destiny
as Mrs. McQuarryTells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic...
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Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss
as Madame AlexThe story of Heidi Fleiss, known as "The Hollywood Madam", who was the daughter of a prominent...
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How About You...
as Heather NightingaleA young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a...
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The American
as Mrs. BreadAfter the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to...
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Journey
as LottieDeserted by their mother, a young boy and his sister discover the true meaning of family while...
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Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America
as Mary Ann Rowe (voice)Originally broadcast to critical acclaim on PBS, this documentary traces the story of flight...
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Sinful Davey
as MaidA young man, convinced of his paternity, aims to emulate his notorious father by committing...
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Conspiracy of Silence
as Annie McLaughlinWhen a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts...
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The War Bride
as BettyDuring World War II, a Cockney woman marries a Canadian soldier and adjusts to life in Alberta.
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Resurrection Man
as Dorcas KellyBelfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that...
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Pete's Meteor
as LilyLives change for members of an Irish family after a meteor crashes in their backyard. The kids...
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The Quatermass Conclusion
as Alison ThorpeInfluenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the...
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Utz
as MartaHugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who...
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A Long Way From Home
as BrendaJoseph and Brenda have done what many only dream of and retired to the South of France to live...
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Omagh
as Nuala O'LoanThe movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack...
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Bloody Kids
as NurseContemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an...
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Locked In
as JoanJosh leaves his advertising career at its peak, everyone wants either to be him or to have him....
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Cupid & Cate
as Willie HendleyCate has a small boutique where she sells vintage clothes. She is dating some snob whose mother...
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The Intended
as Mrs. JonesA period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian...
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Deadly Advice
as Iris GreenwoodMother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see...
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I Was a Rat
as Joan JonesA little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy...
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The Ballroom of Romance
as BridieA lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.
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Swann
as Rose HindmarchRose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney...
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The Music Machine
as Mrs. PearsonAt a famous London disco venue, a competition is announced to select two dancers to star in a...
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The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story
as ElizaTrue story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.
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Exploits at West Poley
as Aunt DraycottSomerset 1850. Two boys exploring an underground cave, divert the course of a river and...
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Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story
as Alexandra MacLeanThe 1946/1947 murder trial of young and beautiful Evelyn Dick remains the most lurid murder case...
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The Woman Who Married Clark Gable
as MaryPeriod drama. A woman living in Dublin in the late 1930's relieves her humdrum existence with...
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Painted Angels
as Annie RyanThe story centers on the life of a bordello in a midwestern prairie town in the 1870s. The...
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The Picnic
as Ray's MotherA widowed teacher marries again, but her hopes of her daughter accepting a stepfather her own...
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Watermelon
as Teresa RyanA tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.
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Your Man from Six Counties
as MollieWhen his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west...
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Durango
as Aunt MaeveIn 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his...
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Deadly
as BridieDeadly tells the story of Boney, a working stiff who doesn’t care about his dead-end job. That...
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The Swallow
as uncreditedIn a small house, on the Irish coast, a woman writes a letter to an unknown correspondent. She...
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Licking Hitler
as Eileen Graham1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project,...
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Milk
as NanReluctant Jennifer must bathe her mischievous grandmother. Once close, they are now virtually...
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Casualty
as Megan RoachDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...
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Play for Today
as uncreditedPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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BBC Play of the Month
as EmmaPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
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The Oscars
as SelfAn annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...
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Angels
as uncreditedAngels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print...
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The Catch
as PhyllisThe story follows fisherman Ed Collier, who is highly protective over his family, which includes...
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Beautiful People
as NargBeautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys...
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Brides of Christ
as Sister AgnesDiane, a young woman growing up in Australia in the mid 1960s, walks away from her fiancé to...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as LottieHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as MaeveHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Willie HendleyHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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Quatermass
as Alison ThorpeIn the near future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his...
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No Tears
as Grainne McFaddenBased on the hepatitis C scandal that rocked Ireland in the mid-1990s. Two very different women...
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Cam Boy
as TildaWhen Aston finds himself left to his own devices with bills to pay while his boyfriend is in New...
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Holding
as as Lizzie Meany, Mrs. MeanyLocal police officer Sergeant PJ Collins is a gentle man who hides from people and fills his...
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A Woman of Independent Means
as Mother SteedBess Steed marries her childhood sweetheart in the early part of the 20th century and begins a...
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The Gathering Seed
as Kitty HenshawThe saga of Manchester lad Joe Henshaw, a story that takes in family life, the trials and...
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Seekers
as Stella HazardSeekers is a four-part TV mini-series released in 1992 about a police officer who disappears,...
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Relative Strangers
as MaureenMaureen is an Irishwoman, happily married and living in Germany. Or so she thinks. When her...
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