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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.
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As actor
The Three Urns
Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now
This Is Not An Attack On Your Parenting
And Mrs.
National Theatre Live: People, Places and Things
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Napoleon
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
Beast
National Theatre Live: King Lear
Queen & Country
Stonehearst Asylum
The Sea
Wrath of the Titans
Cracks
Eastern Promises
A Room with a View
V for Vendetta
The Tiger's Tail
Mathilde
Dad
Summer Solstice
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
I Capture the Castle
Winter Solstice
Dream
My Mother Frank
Passion of Mind
The Nephew