Anna Manahan
Birthday: 1924-10-18
Place of Birth: County Waterford, Ireland
Biography: Anna Maria Manahan (18 October 1924 – 8 March 2009) was an Irish stage, film and television actress. Manahan received two Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play nominations for her performances in the 1968 production of Lovers and the 1998 production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, the latter for which she won at the 52nd Tony Awards. Manahan was also nominated for two Drama Desk Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award in her career spanned more than 60 years. She interpreted the works of, among others, Seán O'Casey, John B. Keane, John Millington Synge, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Martin McDonagh, Christy Brown, and Brian Friel.
Movies
Clash of the Titans
To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-G...
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All Dogs Go to Heaven
When a casino-owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven ...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of th...
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A Business Affair
This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Ale...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...
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The Glory Hole
Cathy and Noel are a Catholic and a protestant soldier. They fall in love, to their cost....
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a m...
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The Rug
A story of loss told through a daughter looking back on her mother’s life in rural Ireland who recei...
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The Treaty
How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, ...
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Hear My Song
Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chi...
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Fatal Inheritance
Jack Carnegie is an American 'heir-hunter', whose job it is to trace unknown family members who shou...
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Ulysses
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering...
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Lucky
“Set in Liverpool in the early 70s, the film tells the story of Samuel 'Lucky' Ubooto, a half Africa...
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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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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broa...
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The Country Girls
The lifelong friendship of two rural Irish girls is put on the test when they grow up and leave for ...
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Katie: The Year of a Child
Katie, the 14-year-old daughter of a travelling family, is left in charge of an ailing mother and he...
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She Didn't Say No!
Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conserva...
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Juno and the Paycock
During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life...
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