Sinéad Cusack
Acting
- Born:
- 1948-02-18
- Place of birth:
- Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland
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
Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now
And Mrs.
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
This Is Not An Attack On Your Parenting
National Theatre Live: People, Places and Things
Napoleon
North Sea Connection
The Baby
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
MotherFatherSon
National Theatre Live: King Lear
Beast
Marcella
Queen & Country
Stonehearst Asylum
37 Days
The Sea
Wrath of the Titans
Camelot
The Deep
Cracks
A Room with a View
A Room with a View
Eastern Promises
The Tiger's Tail
Home Again
V for Vendetta
Mathilde
Summer Solstice
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Dad
Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love
North & South
Winter Solstice
Winter Solstice
I Capture the Castle
Dream
My Mother Frank
Passion of Mind
The Nephew
Food for Ravens
Midsomer Murders
Have Your Cake and Eat It
Stealing Beauty
Oliver's Travels
Uncovered
Sparrow
Bad Behavior
The Cement Garden
God on the Rocks
Tales from Hollywood
Waterland
Performance
The Hen House
Venus Peter
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Rocket Gibraltar
ScreenPlay
Cyrano de Bergerac
Screen Two
Playing Shakespeare
American Playhouse
Twelfth Night
The BBC Television Shakespeare
The Kitchen
BBC2 Play of the Week
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
Supernatural
Romance
Love's Labour's Lost
Quiller
Notorious Woman
Affairs of the Heart
The Playboy of the Western World
Horowitz in Dublin
The Eyes Have It
Thriller
Scoop
The Protectors
The Persuaders!
Revenge
Stage 2
The Ballad of Tam Lin
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
The Dolly Scene
Menace
The Sinners
A Sound from the Sea
Hoffman
David Copperfield
ITV Playhouse
BBC Play of the Month
Armchair Theatre
Tony Awards
Dog & Bull
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes