Sinéad Cusack
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
Credits
- 2024 · And Mrs. as Lorraine
- 2024 · Alec Guinness: A Class Act as self
- 2024 · National Theatre Live: People, Places and Things as Doctor/Thrapist/Mum
- 2023 · Napoleon as Letizia Bonaparte
- 2022 · The Baby as Barbara
- 2019 · MotherFatherSon as Maggie Barns
- 2016 · Marcella as Sylvie Gibson
- 2014 · Stonehearst Asylum as Mrs. Pike
- 2014 · 37 Days as Margot Asquith
- 2013 · The Sea as Anna Morden
- 2012 · Wrath of the Titans as Clea
- 2011 · Camelot as Sybil
- 2011 · Camelot as Sibyl
- 2010 · The Deep as Meg Sinclair
- 2009 · Cracks as Miss Nieven
- 2007 · Eastern Promises as Helen
- 2006 · The Tiger's Tail as Oona O'Leary
- 2006 · V for Vendetta as Delia Surridge
- 2005 · Summer Solstice as Elfrida
- 2004 · North & South as Hannah Thornton
- 2003 · Winter Solstice as Elfrida Phibbs
- 1997 · Food for Ravens as Jennie Lee
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Stella Harris
- 1996 · Stealing Beauty as Diana Grayson
- 1995 · Oliver's Travels as WPC Diane Priest
- 1994 · Sparrow as Matilde
- 1993 · The Cement Garden as Mother
- 1991 · Performance as Nelly Mann
- 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Mrs. Amy Folliat
- 1988 · Rocket Gibraltar as Amanda 'Billi' Rockwell (as Sinead Cusack)
- 1984 · Playing Shakespeare as
- 1977 · BBC2 Play of the Week as Monique
- 1977 · Supernatural as Leonora
- 1975 · Quiller as Roz
- 1974 · The Playboy of the Western World as Margaret Flaherty (Pegeen Mike)
- 1973 · Horowitz in Dublin as Liz
- 1973 · Thriller as Sally
- 1972 · The Protectors as Anne Ferris
- 1971 · The Persuaders! as Jenny Lindley
- 1970 · The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer as Yvonne (Uncredited)
- 1970 · Menace as
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Lady Rosaline
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Trilby
- Future · Dog & Bull as
- 2026 · The Three Urns as Deirdre
- 2025 · Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now as Self
- 2024 · This Is Not An Attack On Your Parenting as
- 2022 · North Sea Connection as Moira Kenny
- 2022 · Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman as Self
- 2020 · Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy as Self
- 2018 · National Theatre Live: King Lear as Kent
- 2018 · Beast as Penelope
- 2015 · Queen & Country as Grace Rohan
- 2007 · A Room with a View as Miss Lavish
- 2006 · Home Again as
- 2006 · Mathilde as Wife of Col. De Petris
- 2005 · The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle as Mary Doyle
- 2005 · Dad as Sandy James
- 2005 · Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love as
- 2003 · Winter Solstice as Elfrida Phibbs
- 2003 · I Capture the Castle as Mrs Cotton
- 2001 · Dream as Kathleen
- 2000 · My Mother Frank as Frances 'Frank' Kennedy
- 2000 · Passion of Mind as Jessie
- 1998 · The Nephew as Brenda O'Boyce
- 1995 · Uncovered as Menchu
- 1993 · Bad Behavior as Ellie McAllister
- 1992 · God on the Rocks as Ellie Marsh
- 1992 · Tales from Hollywood as Nelly Mann
- 1992 · Waterland as Mary Crick
- 1989 · The Hen House as Lily
- 1989 · Venus Peter as Miss Balsilbie
- 1985 · Cyrano de Bergerac as Roxanne
- 1980 · Twelfth Night as Olivia
- 1977 · The Kitchen as Monique
- 1977 · The Last Remake of Beau Geste as Isabel Geste
- 1975 · Love's Labour's Lost as Rosaline
- 1974 · Notorious Woman as Marie Dorval
- 1973 · The Eyes Have It as Sally
- 1972 · Scoop as Katchen
- 1971 · Revenge as Rose
- 1970 · The Ballad of Tam Lin as Rose
- 1970 · The Dolly Scene as Anna
- 1970 · A Sound from the Sea as Catherine
- 1970 · Hoffman as Miss Smith
- 1969 · David Copperfield as Emily
- Future · The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes as Molly