Brenda Fricker is an Irish retired actress, whose career spanned six decades on stage and screen. 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. As of 2014, she has tentatively retired from acting. In 2020, she was listed at number 26 on The Irish Times list of Ireland’s greatest film actors.
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Brenda Fricker is an Irish retired actress, whose career spanned six decades on stage and screen. 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. She also appeared in films such as The Field, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Angels in the Outfield, A Time to Kill, Veronica Guerin, Inside I’m Dancing and Albert Nobbs. As of 2014, she has tentatively retired from acting. In 2020, she was listed at number 26 on The Irish Times list of Ireland’s greatest film actors.
Fricker was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her mother, Bina, was a teacher at Stratford College, and her father, Desmond Frederick Fricker, served in the Department of Agriculture and as ‘Fred Desmond’ a broadcaster with RTE. Before becoming an actress, Frickers was assistant to the art editor of the Irish Times, with hopes of becoming a reporter. At age 19, her feature film career began with a small uncredited part in the 1964 film Of Human Bondage, based on the 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham.
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