BRENDA FRICKER

'Brenda Fricker' (born February 17, 1947 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Academy Award-winning Irish actress.
She began her feature film career with a small uncredited part in the 1964 movie ''Of Human Bondage'', based on the 1915 novel by William Somerset Maugham of the same name.
Initially better known in the United Kingdom for her role as Megan Roach in the BBC One television drama series ''Casualty'', she won the 1989 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Christy Brown's mother in ''My Left Foot''. She then co-starred in the 1990 film ''The Field''. During this time she remained with the series, before going on to star in a series of hit movies, including '' and ''So I Married an Axe Murderer'', as a ''Weekly World News''-obsessed Scottish immigrant.

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Selected filmography

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Selected filmography

★ ''Of Human Bondage'' (1964) (uncredited)

★ ''Quatermass'' (1978) (TV)

★ ''Quatermass'' (1979) (TV series)

★ ''Casualty'' (1986) (TV series) (1986-1990)

★ ''My Left Foot'' (1989)

★ ''The Field'' (1990)

★ ''The Sound and the Silence'' (1992) (TV)

★ '' (1992)

★ ''So I Married an Axe Murderer'' (1993)

★ ''A Man of No Importance'' (1994)

★ ''Angels in the Outfield'' (1994)

★ ''Journey'' (1995) (TV)

★ ''Moll Flanders'' (1996)

★ ''A Time to Kill'' (1996)

★ ''Painted Angels'' (1998)

★ ''Resurrection'' (1999) (TV)

★ ''Durango (film)'' (1999)

★ ''Veronica Guerin'' (2003)

★ ''Omagh'' (2004)

★ ''Inside I'm Dancing'' (2004)

★ ''Razor Fish'' (2004)

★ ''Tara Road'' (2005)

★ ''How About You'' (2007)

★ ''Shamrock Boy'' (2007) filming

See also

★ List of people on stamps of Ireland

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