Brenda Fricker

Brenda Fricker

Birthday: 1945-02-17

Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland

Biography: Brenda Fricker (born 17 February 1945) is an Irish actress, whose career has spanned six decades on stage and screen. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television roles. In 1990, she became the first Irish actress to win an Academy Award, earning the award for Best Supporting Actress for the biopic My Left Foot (1989). She also appeared in films such as The Field (1990), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), So I Married An Axe Murderer (1993), Angels in the Outfield (1994), A Time to Kill (1996), Veronica Guerin (2003), Inside I'm Dancing (2004) and Albert Nobbs (2011). Description above from the Wikipedia article Brenda Fricker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish fa...

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A Time to Kill
A Time to Kill

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...

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Utz
Utz

Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels ...

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Veronica Guerin
Veronica Guerin

In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug...

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Tara Road
Tara Road

A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland....

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The Music Machine
The Music Machine

At a famous London disco venue, a competition is announced to select two dancers to star in a new fi...

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So I Married an Axe Murderer
So I Married an Axe Murderer

Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels and introduces...

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Omagh
Omagh

The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack kill...

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Inside I'm Dancing
Inside I'm Dancing

Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential...

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The Field
The Field

"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land....

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Angels in the Outfield
Angels in the Outfield

Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's fav...

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Masterminds
Masterminds

A rebellious teen uses his talent for pranks to outwit the security consultant who has taken the stu...

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The Quatermass Conclusion
The Quatermass Conclusion

Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie y...

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How About You...
How About You...

A young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a retiremen...

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Closing the Ring
Closing the Ring

During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with ...

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The War Bride
The War Bride

During World War II, a Cockney woman marries a Canadian soldier and adjusts to life in Alberta....

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Pete's Meteor
Pete's Meteor

Lives change for members of an Irish family after a meteor crashes in their backyard. The kids belie...

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Watermelon
Watermelon

A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby....

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A Man of No Importance
A Man of No Importance

Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quie...

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Conspiracy of Silence
Conspiracy of Silence

When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to ...

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Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss
Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss

The story of Heidi Fleiss, known as "The Hollywood Madam", who was the daughter of a prominent Los A...

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Painted Angels
Painted Angels

The story centers on the life of a bordello in a midwestern prairie town in the 1870s. The whorehous...

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Cloudburst
Cloudburst

When Dot's granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Ca...

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Resurrection Man
Resurrection Man

Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one n...

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A Long Way From Home
A Long Way From Home

Joseph and Brenda have done what many only dream of and retired to the South of France to live out t...

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Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story
Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story

The 1946/1947 murder trial of young and beautiful Evelyn Dick remains the most lurid murder case in ...

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The Picnic
The Picnic

A widowed teacher marries again, but her hopes of her daughter accepting a stepfather her own age, a...

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The Ballroom of Romance
The Ballroom of Romance

A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom....

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Locked In
Locked In

Josh decides to leave his advertising career at its peak and walks away from fame and success. But h...

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Deadly Advice
Deadly Advice

Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themsel...

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The Miracle Club
The Miracle Club

Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey ...

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Sinful Davey
Sinful Davey

A young man, convinced of his paternity, aims to emulate his notorious father by committing daring c...

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Albert Nobbs
Albert Nobbs

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be ...

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Moll Flanders
Moll Flanders

The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mo...

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The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story
The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story

True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother....

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Journey
Journey

Deserted by their mother, a young boy and his sister discover the true meaning of family while livin...

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Licking Hitler
Licking Hitler

1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creatin...

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Deadly
Deadly

Deadly tells the story of Boney, a working stiff who doesn’t care about his dead-end job. That is un...

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Trauma
Trauma

Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well ...

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Milk
Milk

Reluctant Jennifer must bathe her mischievous grandmother. Once close, they are now virtually strang...

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The Virgins
The Virgins

Three middle-aged Irish bachelors - Shemm, Cloggy and Ambrose - put drinks before sex. Even Mrs Ryde...

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Exploits at West Poley
Exploits at West Poley

Somerset 1850. Two boys exploring an underground cave, divert the course of a river and drastically ...

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Bloody Kids
Bloody Kids

Two boys pull a Saturday night prank on the police in a seaside British town....

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The Intended
The Intended

A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading po...

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel ...

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Resurrection
Resurrection

After a woman is crippled in an auto accident which killed her husband, she suddenly develops the po...

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Swann
Swann

Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as s...

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The American
The American

After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to Fra...

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The Woman Who Married Clark Gable
The Woman Who Married Clark Gable

Period drama. A woman living in Dublin in the late 1930's relieves her humdrum existence with fantas...

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Durango
Durango

In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattl...

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I Was a Rat
I Was a Rat

A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is co...

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Stone of Destiny
Stone of Destiny

Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Sco...

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Your Man from Six Counties
Your Man from Six Counties

When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west Irel...

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Cupid & Cate
Cupid & Cate

Cate has a small boutique where she sells vintage clothes. She is dating some snob whose mother thin...

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The Swallow
The Swallow

In a small house, on the Irish coast, a woman writes a letter to an unknown correspondent. She ponde...

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Out of Ireland
Out of Ireland

Over the course of two centuries, seven million men, women and children abandoned their homeland for...

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The Liberties
The Liberties

A series of twelve short films, each encapsulating a different aspect of the famous Dublin inner-cit...

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Muide Éire
Muide Éire

Muide Eire / We are Ireland documents the history of Ireland on screen. From the horse drawn carriag...

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