
Sinéad Cusack
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 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

V for Vendetta
2006Delia Surridge
Eastern Promises
2007Helen
The Tiger's Tail
2006Oona O'Leary
Hoffman
1970Miss Smith
Cracks
2009Miss Nieven
Stealing Beauty
1996Diana Grayson
The Cement Garden
1993Mother
Sparrow
1994Matilde
I Capture the Castle
2003Mrs Cotton
Beast
2018Penelope
Uncovered
1995Menchu
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
2022SelfCyrano de Bergerac
1985Roxanne
Rocket Gibraltar
1988Amanda 'Billi' Rockwell (as Sinead Cusack)
The Nephew
1998Brenda O'Boyce
Revenge
1971Rose
Bad Behavior
1993Ellie McAllister
The Ballad of Tam Lin
1970Rose
Winter Solstice
2003Elfrida Phibbs