Niamh Cusack
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Niamh Cusack (born 20 October 1959) is an Irish actress. Born to a family with deep roots in the performing arts, Cusack has been involved in acting since a young age. She has served with the Royal Shakespeare Company and performed in a long line of major stage productions since the mid-1980s. She has made numerous appearances on television including a long-running role as Dr. Kate Rowan in the UK series Heartbeat (1992–1995). She has often worked as a voice actress on radio, and her film credits include a starring role in In Love with Alma Cogan (2011). The daughter of the Irish actor Cyril Cusack, she is the sister of Sinéad Cusack and Sorcha Cusack, and half-sister of Catherine Cusack. She has two brothers, Paul Cusack, a television producer, and Pádraig Cusack, Producer for the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain. Cusack's husband is the actor Finbar Lynch; they have a son.
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
as Rita QuinnIn a remote Irish village, a damaged Finbar is forced to fight for redemption after a lifetime...
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Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched...
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Unwelcome
as NiamhLondoners Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only...
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Testament of Youth
as Sister JonesTestament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World...
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The Kid
as 1980 School NurseBased on the real life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his...
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Five Minutes of Heaven
as Alistair's Mum - 1975The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe...
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ChickLit
as ClaireChickLit is a comedy drama about four guys trying to save their local pub from closing down....
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Departure
as SallyAn English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday...
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The Best of Men
as Sister EdwardsLudwig Guttmann, a renowned German neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany in the early days of WWII,...
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The Closer You Get
as Kate O'LearyIrish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of...
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The Playboys
as Brigid MaguireA young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s...
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The Ghoul
as FisherA homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes...
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Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
as Clara ClutterbuckThe singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer
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Angels
as MaryThree guardian angels help three souls evaluate their past lives.
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RSC Live: Macbeth
as Lady MacbethReturning home from battle, the victorious Macbeth meets three witches on the heath. Driven by...
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National Theatre Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
as SiobhanChristopher, fifteen years old, has an extraordinary brain – exceptional at maths while...
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In Love with Alma Cogan
as SandraThe film revolves around, Norman, a world-weary manager of a pier theatre in a seaside resort....
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Fools of Fortune
as JosephineA Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
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Paris by Night
as Jenny SwantonClara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career - but on...
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Too Good to Be True
as TinaA divorced father objects to his former wife's new partner.
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Little Bird
as Ellen HallA film that searches the dilemma of a middle age couple Ellen and Michael Hall, who have lost...
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Lucky Sunil
as Denise SlipperYoung, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold...
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Reawakening
as BellaJohn (BAFA-winner JARED HARRIS) and Mary (BAFTA-nominee JULIET STEVENSON) have lived with...
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Cause of Death
as Mary McGuireA QED drama special, based upon a real-life case of medical negligence. Within four days of...
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Hamlet: Bristol Old Vic Live
as Gertrude'Must I remember?' Hamlet's father is dead. His mother has remarried. He is alone with his...
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A Reflection
as IrisCam is brought back to her childhood home with three things to reckon with: her father’s heart...
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Sally Leapt Out of a Window Last Night
as Lady BettyIreland 1778. Sally and Eleanor flout convention and scandalise society to escape the fate their...
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
as uncreditedClassic tales of Peter Rabbit."Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names...
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Midsomer Murders
as Penny GalsworthyThe peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...
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Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Valerie SaintclairFrom England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet...
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Death in Paradise
as Maggie O'ConnellA brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling...
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Agatha Christie's Marple
as Emma CrackenthorpeThe adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St...
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The Hollow Crown
as Lady NorthumberlandA series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
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Jeeves and Wooster
as BobbieJeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's...
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Brassic
as ClodaghA group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in northern...
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Father Brown
as Roisin CrayfordFather Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who...
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New Tricks
as Joanne GibsonNew Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and...
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Heartbeat
as Dr. Kate RowanSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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The Last Detective
as uncredited"Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he...
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Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
as Alma HitchcockThe four-part drama series will tell the story of Cary Grant’s life, from his humble beginnings...
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
as Beatrix PotterNine animated stories based on the original Peter Rabbit books by Beatrix Potter.
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Rebellion
as Nelly CosgroveA group of young men and women in Dublin in 1916 are embroiled in a fight for independence...
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Big Mood
as uncreditedMaggie and Eddie spent their 20s living in each other's pockets, but the closer they get to the...
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Fallen Angel
as Vanessa ByfieldFallen Angel is an ITV series broadcast on 11–13 March 2007 based on the Roth Trilogy of novels...
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Always and Everyone
as Christine FletcherAlways and Everyone was a British television drama that ran from 1999 to 2002. It dramatised the...
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The Virtues
as JanineJoseph falls into despair when his nine-year-old son Shea leaves for Australia with his ex...
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Colour Blind
as Bridget PatersonA gritty period drama set in industrial Tyneside during World War I. Life for the McQueen family...
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