Sinéad Cusack
Biography
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
Delia Surridge
V for Vendetta
Helen
Eastern Promises
Oona O'Leary
The Tiger's Tail
Miss Smith
Hoffman
Miss Nieven
Cracks
Diana Grayson
Stealing Beauty
Mother
The Cement Garden
Matilde
Storia di una capinera
Mrs Cotton
I Capture the Castle
Penelope
Beast
Menchu
Uncovered
Self
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
Roxanne
Cyrano de Bergerac
Amanda 'Billi' Rockwell (as Sinead Cusack)
Rocket Gibraltar
Brenda O'Boyce
The Nephew
Rose
Revenge
Ellie McAllister
Bad Behaviour
Rose
The Ballad of Tam Lin
Elfrida Phibbs
Winter Solstice
Mary Crick
Waterland
Frances 'Frank' Kennedy
My Mother Frank
Anna Morden
The Sea
Rosaline
Love's Labour's Lost
Wife of Col. De Petris
Mathilde
Olivia
Twelfth Night
Grace Rohan
Queen & Country
This Is Not An Attack On Your Parenting
Letizia Bonaparte
Napoleon
Liz
Horowitz in Dublin
Mrs. Pike
Stonehearst Asylum
Kathleen
Dream
Emily
David Copperfield
Lorraine
And Mrs.
Catherine
A Sound from the Sea
Lily
The Hen House
Monique
The Kitchen
Anna
The Dolly Scene
Miss Lavish
A Room with a View
Sandy James
Dad
Jessie
Passion of Mind
Elfrida
Summer Solstice
Mary Doyle
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Miss Balsilbie
Venus Peter
Nelly Mann
Tales from Hollywood
Doctor/Thrapist/Mum
National Theatre Live: People, Places and Things
Jennie Lee
Food for Ravens
Clea
Wrath of the Titans
Kent
National Theatre Live: King Lear
Margaret Flaherty (Pegeen Mike)
The Playboy of the Western World
Yvonne (Uncredited)
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Self
Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
Isabel Geste
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
Sally
The Eyes Have It
Ellie Marsh
God on the Rocks
Dog & Bull
self
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Self
Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now
Molly
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes
Deirdre
The Three Urns
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
59
Gender
Female
Birthday
1948-02-18
Place of Birth
Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland
Also Known As
Sinead Cusack