Sinéad Cusack
Actor
Born February 18, 1948 in Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland
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.
Filmography
The Three Urns
Deirdre
Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now
Self
And Mrs.
Lorraine
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
This Is Not An Attack On Your Parenting
National Theatre Live: People, Places and Things
Doctor/Thrapist/Mum
Napoleon
Letizia Bonaparte
North Sea Connection
Moira Kenny
The Baby
Barbara
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
Self
Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
Self
MotherFatherSon
Maggie Barns
National Theatre Live: King Lear
Kent
Beast
Penelope
Marcella
Sylvie Gibson
Queen & Country
Grace Rohan
Stonehearst Asylum
Mrs. Pike
37 Days
Margot Asquith
The Sea
Anna Morden
Wrath of the Titans
Clea
Camelot
Sybil
The Deep
Meg Sinclair
Cracks
Miss Nieven
A Room with a View
Miss Lavish
Eastern Promises
Helen
The Tiger's Tail
Oona O'Leary
V for Vendetta
Delia Surridge
Mathilde
Wife of Col. De Petris
Summer Solstice
Elfrida
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Mary Doyle
Dad
Sandy James
Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love
North & South
Hannah Thornton
Winter Solstice
Elfrida Phibbs
Winter Solstice
Elfrida Phibbs
I Capture the Castle
Mrs Cotton
Dream
Kathleen
My Mother Frank
Frances 'Frank' Kennedy
Passion of Mind
Jessie
The Nephew
Brenda O'Boyce
Food for Ravens
Jennie Lee
Midsomer Murders
Stella Harris
Stealing Beauty
Diana Grayson
Oliver's Travels
WPC Diane Priest
Uncovered
Menchu
Sparrow
Matilde
Bad Behavior
Ellie McAllister
The Cement Garden
Mother
God on the Rocks
Ellie Marsh
Tales from Hollywood
Nelly Mann
Waterland
Mary Crick
Performance
Nelly Mann
The Hen House
Lily
Venus Peter
Miss Balsilbie
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mrs. Amy Folliat
Rocket Gibraltar
Amanda 'Billi' Rockwell (as Sinead Cusack)
ScreenPlay
Lily
Screen Two
Mother
Playing Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
Olivia
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Olivia
The Kitchen
Monique
BBC2 Play of the Week
Monique
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
Isabel Geste
Supernatural
Leonora
Love's Labour's Lost
Rosaline
Notorious Woman
Marie Dorval
Affairs of the Heart
Bessie Alden
Horowitz in Dublin
Liz
The Eyes Have It
Sally
Thriller
Sally
The Protectors
Anne Ferris
The Persuaders!
Jenny Lindley
Revenge
Rose
The Ballad of Tam Lin
Rose
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Yvonne (Uncredited)
Hoffman
Miss Smith
David Copperfield
Emily
ITV Playhouse
Mary
BBC Play of the Month
Lady Rosaline
Armchair Theatre
Amora
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee