This frumpy, maternal, Irish character actress gained experience in Irish theater and with the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Court Theatre Company in Great Britain. Brenda Fricker received great acclaim for her Oscar-winning supporting performance as the determined mother of a son afflicted with cerebral palsy in "My Left...
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominations
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress, Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Prog...
Movies
My Left Foot, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, A Time to Kill, Veronica Guerin, Cloudburst, Rory O'Shea Was Here, Albert Nobbs, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Angels in the Outfield, The Field, A Man of No Importance, Moll Flanders, The War Bride, A Long Way From Home, The Intended, Conspiracy of Sile...
TV Shows
I Was a Rat, Seekers, Brides of Christ, Forgive Me, Imagining Ulysses, Relative Strangers
Star Sign
Aquarius
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Quote
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I don't think awards are good, I don't think you should pluck somebody out of a job that is so communal and give them an award and everybody else is kind of left behind. I don't like awards. [They create] a competition element that shouldn't be there in our job, it really shouldn't, because it's such a family affair.
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When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British.
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If you're doing a scene and you think you're doing it wrong, just swear in the middle of it and then the director can't use it. It's an arrogant way of doing it, but unfortunately it's the only way of self-protection. You have to be a bit anarchic sometimes.
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Fact
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Was the 99th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for My Left Foot (1989) at The 62nd Annual Academy Awards (1990) on March 26, 1990.
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Residing in The Liberties neighborhood of Dublin, Ireland. [2010]
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Divorced Barry Davies in 1988 due to his alcoholism; they later reconciled in 1990 and remained together until his untimely death the following year.
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Became pregnant six times during her marriage to Barry Davies; on all of those occasions she suffered miscarriages.
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Is diabetic.
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Ventured into acting, beginning on the stage, whilst working as a journalist for The Irish Times and worked extensively on the Irish stage before moving to London.
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As a teenager, a car accident left her out of commission for nearly two years; later she suffered from a case of tuberculosis and the removal of a kidney.
$15 Million
