Sinéad Cusack
Born: 1948-02-18 in Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now as Self
2024
- And Mrs. as Lorraine
- This Is Not An Attack On Your Parenting
- Alec Guinness: A Class Act as self
- National Theatre Live: People, Places and Things as Doctor/Thrapist/Mum
2023
- Napoleon as Letizia Bonaparte
2022
- The Baby as Barbara
- Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman as Self
- North Sea Connection as Moira Kenny
2020
2019
- MotherFatherSon as Maggie Barns
2018
- Beast as Penelope
- National Theatre Live: King Lear as Kent
2016
- Marcella as Sylvie Gibson
2014
- Queen & Country as Grace Rohan
- Stonehearst Asylum as Mrs. Pike
- 37 Days as Margot Asquith
2013
- The Sea as Anna Morden
2012
- Wrath of the Titans as Clea
2011
- Camelot as Sybil
2010
- The Deep as Meg Sinclair
2009
- Cracks as Miss Nieven
2007
- Eastern Promises as Helen
- A Room with a View as Miss Lavish
2006
- V for Vendetta as Delia Surridge
- Mathilde as Wife of Col. De Petris
- The Tiger's Tail as Oona O'Leary
- Home Again
2005
- Dad as Sandy James
- The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle as Mary Doyle
- Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love
- Summer Solstice as Elfrida
2004
- North & South as Hannah Thornton
2003
- Winter Solstice as Elfrida Phibbs
- I Capture the Castle as Mrs Cotton
- Winter Solstice as Elfrida Phibbs
2001
- Dream as Kathleen
2000
- Passion of Mind as Jessie
- My Mother Frank as Frances 'Frank' Kennedy
1998
- The Nephew as Brenda O'Boyce
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Stella Harris
- Food for Ravens as Jennie Lee
1996
- Stealing Beauty as Diana Grayson
1995
- Uncovered as Menchu
- Oliver's Travels as WPC Diane Priest
1994
- Sparrow as Matilde
1993
- Bad Behavior as Ellie McAllister
- The Cement Garden as Mother
1992
- Waterland as Mary Crick
- Tales from Hollywood as Nelly Mann
- God on the Rocks as Ellie Marsh
1991
- Performance as Nelly Mann
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Mrs. Amy Folliat
- The Hen House as Lily
- Venus Peter as Miss Balsilbie
1988
- Rocket Gibraltar as Amanda 'Billi' Rockwell (as Sinead Cusack)
1985
- Cyrano de Bergerac as Roxanne
1984
1980
- Twelfth Night as Olivia
1977
- The Kitchen as Monique
- BBC2 Play of the Week as Monique
- The Last Remake of Beau Geste as Isabel Geste
- Supernatural
1975
- Love's Labour's Lost as Rosaline
- Quiller as Roz
1974
- Notorious Woman as Marie Dorval
- The Playboy of the Western World as Margaret Flaherty (Pegeen Mike)
1973
- Thriller as Sally
- Horowitz in Dublin as Liz
- The Eyes Have It as Sally
1972
- The Protectors as Anne Ferris
- Scoop as Katchen
1971
- The Persuaders! as Jenny Lindley
- Revenge as Rose
1970
- Hoffman as Miss Smith
- The Ballad of Tam Lin as Rose
- The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer as Yvonne (Uncredited)
- A Sound from the Sea as Catherine
- The Dolly Scene as Anna
- Menace
1969
- David Copperfield as Emily
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Lady Rosaline
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee