Sinéad Cusack
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 18 February 1948 · Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland
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
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- 2026Dog & Bull
- 2026The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes as Molly
- 2026The Three Urns as Deirdre
- 2025Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now as Self
- 2024And Mrs. as Lorraine
- 2024Alec Guinness: A Class Act as self
- 2024This Is Not An Attack On Your Parenting
- 2024National Theatre Live: People, Places and Things as Doctor/Therapist/Mum
- 2023Napoleon as Letizia Bonaparte
- 2022Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman as Self
- 2020Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy as Self
- 2018National Theatre Live: King Lear as Kent
- 2018Beast as Penelope
- 2015Queen & Country as Grace Rohan
- 2014Stonehearst Asylum as Mrs. Pike
- 2013The Sea as Anna Morden
- 2012Wrath of the Titans as Clea
- 2009Cracks as Miss Nieven
- 2007A Room with a View as Miss Lavish
- 2007Eastern Promises as Helen
- 2006The Tiger's Tail as Oona O'Leary
- 2006V for Vendetta as Delia Surridge
- 2006Mathilde as Wife of Col. De Petris
- 2005Summer Solstice as Elfrida
- 2005The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle as Mary Doyle
- 2005Dad as Sandy James
- 2003Winter Solstice as Elfrida Phibbs
- 2003I Capture the Castle as Mrs Cotton
- 2001Dream as Kathleen
- 2000My Mother Frank as Frances 'Frank' Kennedy
- 2000Passion of Mind as Jessie
- 1998The Nephew as Brenda O'Boyce
- 1997Food for Ravens as Jennie Lee
- 1996Stealing Beauty as Diana Grayson
- 1995Uncovered as Menchu
- 1994Sparrow as Matilde
- 1993Bad Behavior as Ellie McAllister
- 1993The Cement Garden as Mother
- 1992God on the Rocks as Ellie Marsh
- 1992Tales from Hollywood as Nelly Mann
- 1992Waterland as Mary Crick
- 1989The Hen House as Lily
- 1989Venus Peter as Miss Balsilbie
- 1988Rocket Gibraltar as Amanda 'Billi' Rockwell (as Sinead Cusack)
- 1985Cyrano de Bergerac as Roxanne
- 1980Twelfth Night as Olivia
- 1977The Kitchen as Monique
- 1977The Last Remake of Beau Geste as Isabel Geste
- 1975Love's Labour's Lost as Rosaline
- 1974The Playboy of the Western World as Margaret Flaherty (Pegeen Mike)
- 1973Horowitz in Dublin as Liz
- 1973The Eyes Have It as Sally
- 1971Revenge as Rose
- 1970The Ballad of Tam Lin as Rose
- 1970The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer as Yvonne (Uncredited)
- 1970The Dolly Scene as Anna
- 1970A Sound from the Sea as Catherine
- 1970Hoffman as Miss Smith
- 1969David Copperfield as Emily