Actor

Brenda
Fricker

Brenda Fricker won the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Christy Brown’s (portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis) mother in director Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot. Drawing upon her own Irish upbringing, she revealed strength and rawness and bravely aged herself (actually only 12 years older than Day-Lewis) in the role which brought her international attention. A native of Dublin, Ireland, Fricker appeared in numerous productions at Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre and went on to several starring roles for both the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company and the Royal National Theatre in London. Her television work includes many BBC projects such as The Gathering Seed and the series Casualty, Lethal Innocence for PBS, Journey for Hallmark Hall of Fame, and co-starring with Sally Field in the NBC mini-series A Woman of Independent Means. Her other film credits also reflect the diversity of her artistic interests, from moving dramas such as The Field, co-starring with Richard Harris, A Man of No Importance, co-starring with Albert Finney, and A Time to Kill to comedies such as Home Alone II and So I Married An Axe Murderer. She starred in the U.K. produced Resurrection Man, and co-starred with Anna Friel in both The War Bride and in Watermelon for Granada Films. Other recent films include The Intended for acclaimed dogma director Kristian Levering, Conspiracy of Silence for John Deery and Veronica Guerin for Joel Schumacher with Cate Blanchett. Fricker continues to reside in her hometown of Dublin.