Brenda Fricker
Birthday
1945/02/17 (80 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland
Also know as
برندا فریکر
Biography
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 ...Read more
Acting
(1989) My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
as Mrs. Brown
(1996) A Time to Kill
as Ethel Twitty
(1992) Utz
as Marta
(2003) Veronica Guerin
as Bernie Guerin
(2005) Tara Road
as Mona
(1979) The Music Machine
as Mrs. Pearson
(1993) So I Married an Axe Murderer
as May Mackenzie
(2005) Omagh
as Nuala O'Loan
(2004) Inside I'm Dancing
as Eileen
(1990) The Field
as Maggie McCabe
(1994) Angels in the Outfield
as Maggie Nelson
(1997) Masterminds
as Principal Claire Maloney
(1979) The Quatermass Conclusion
as Alison Thorpe
(2007) How About You...
as Heather Nightingale
(2007) Closing the Ring
as Eleanor
(2001) The War Bride
as Betty
(2002) Pete's Meteor
as Lily
(2003) Watermelon
as Teresa Ryan
(1994) A Man of No Importance
as Lily Byrne
(2003) Conspiracy of Silence
as Annie McLaughlin
(2004) Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss
as Madame Alex
(1998) Painted Angels
as Annie Ryan
(2011) Cloudburst
as Dot
(1998) Resurrection Man
as Dorcas Kelly
(2013) A Long Way From Home
as Brenda
(2002) Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story
as Alexandra MacLean
(1989) The Picnic
as Ray's Mother
(1982) The Ballroom of Romance
as Bridie
(2010) Locked In
as Joan
(1994) Deadly Advice
as Iris Greenwood
(2023) The Miracle Club
as Maureen (voice)
(1969) Sinful Davey
as Maid
(2011) Albert Nobbs
as Polly
(1996) Moll Flanders
as madame Mazzawatty
(1993) The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story
as Eliza
(1995) Journey
as Lottie
(1978) Licking Hitler
as Eileen Graham
(2014) Deadly
as Bridie
(2004) Trauma
as Petra
(2005) Milk
as Nan
(1974) The Virgins
as Pat Moran
(1985) Exploits at West Poley
as Aunt Draycott
(1994) Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America
as Mary Ann Rowe (voice)
(1980) Bloody Kids
as Nurse
(2002) The Intended
as Mrs. Jones
(1992) Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
as Pigeon Lady
(1999) Resurrection
as Clare's mother
(1997) Swann
as Rose Hindmarch
(1998) The American
as Mrs. Bread
(1985) The Woman Who Married Clark Gable
as Mary
(1999) Durango
as Aunt Maeve
(2001) I Was a Rat
as Joan Jones
(2008) Stone of Destiny
as Mrs. McQuarry
(1976) Your Man from Six Counties
as Mollie
(2000) Cupid & Cate
as Willie Hendley
(2024) The Swallow
as ---
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Lottie
(1975) Angels
as ---
(1970) Play for Today
as ---
(1973) Black and Blue
as ---
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Emma
(1953) The Oscars
as Self
(2021) Cam Boy
as Tilda
(1986) Casualty
as Megan Roach
(1984) Eh Brian! It's A Whopper
as Bridget
(2008) Beautiful People
as Narg
(2022) Holding
as as Lizzie Meany, Mrs. Meany
(1999) Relative Strangers
as Maureen
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Maeve
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Willie Hendley
(1983) The Gathering Seed
as Kitty Henshaw
(2002) No Tears
as Grainne McFadden
(1993) Seekers
as Stella Hazard
(2023) The Catch
as Phyllis
(1991) Brides of Christ
as Sister Agnes
(2001) I Was a Rat
as Joan Jones
(1979) Quatermass
as Alison Thorpe
(1995) A Woman of Independent Means
as Mother Steed