Brenda Fricker
Date of birth: 1945-02-17
Place of birth: Dublin, Ireland
Known for: Acting
Also known as: برندا فریکر
Biography
Brenda Fricker (born 17 February 1945) is an Irish actress, whose career has spanned six decades on stage and screen. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television roles. 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 (1989). She also appeared in films such as The Field (1990), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), So I Married An Axe Murderer (1993), Angels in the Outfield (1994), A Time to Kill (1996), Veronica Guerin (2003), Inside I'm Dancing (2004) and Albert Nobbs (2011). Description above from the Wikipedia article Brenda Fricker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
1989-04-07
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish fa
A Time to Kill
1996-07-24
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug
Utz
1992-03-15
Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels
Veronica Guerin
2003-07-11
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug
Tara Road
2005-05-11
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
The Music Machine
1979-05-01
At a famous London disco venue, a competition is announced to select two dancers to star in a new fi
So I Married an Axe Murderer
1993-07-30
Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels and introduces
Omagh
2005-03-23
The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack kill
Inside I'm Dancing
2004-10-15
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential
The Field
1990-09-21
"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land.
Angels in the Outfield
1994-07-15
Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's fav
Masterminds
1997-08-22
A rebellious teen uses his talent for pranks to outwit the security consultant who has taken the stu
The Quatermass Conclusion
1979-10-24
Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie y
How About You...
2007-11-16
A young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a retiremen
Closing the Ring
2007-09-14
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with
The War Bride
2001-03-21
During World War II, a Cockney woman marries a Canadian soldier and adjusts to life in Alberta.
Pete's Meteor
2002-12-31
Lives change for members of an Irish family after a meteor crashes in their backyard. The kids belie
Watermelon
2003-04-16
A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.
A Man of No Importance
1994-12-24
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quie
Conspiracy of Silence
2003-05-15
When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to
Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss
2004-03-29
The story of Heidi Fleiss, known as "The Hollywood Madam", who was the daughter of a prominent Los A
Painted Angels
1998-07-21
The story centers on the life of a bordello in a midwestern prairie town in the 1870s. The whorehous
Cloudburst
2011-09-23
When Dot's granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Ca
Resurrection Man
1998-02-13
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one n
A Long Way From Home
2013-12-06
Joseph and Brenda have done what many only dream of and retired to the South of France to live out t
Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story
2002-03-18
The 1946/1947 murder trial of young and beautiful Evelyn Dick remains the most lurid murder case in
The Picnic
1989-02-19
A widowed teacher marries again, but her hopes of her daughter accepting a stepfather her own age, a
The Ballroom of Romance
1982-01-01
A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.
Locked In
2010-09-17
Josh decides to leave his advertising career at its peak and walks away from fame and success. But h
Deadly Advice
1994-04-29
Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themsel
The Miracle Club
2023-07-14
Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey
Sinful Davey
1969-02-10
A young man, convinced of his paternity, aims to emulate his notorious father by committing daring c
Albert Nobbs
2011-12-21
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be
Moll Flanders
1996-06-14
The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mo
The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story
1993-07-18
True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.
Journey
1995-12-10
Deserted by their mother, a young boy and his sister discover the true meaning of family while livin
Licking Hitler
1978-01-10
1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creatin
Deadly
2014-07-12
Deadly tells the story of Boney, a working stiff who doesn’t care about his dead-end job. That is un
Trauma
2004-09-17
Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well
Milk
2005-02-12
Reluctant Jennifer must bathe her mischievous grandmother. Once close, they are now virtually strang
The Virgins
1974-06-24
Three middle-aged Irish bachelors - Shemm, Cloggy and Ambrose - put drinks before sex. Even Mrs Ryde
Exploits at West Poley
1985-01-01
Somerset 1850. Two boys exploring an underground cave, divert the course of a river and drastically
Bloody Kids
1980-03-22
Two boys pull a Saturday night prank on the police in a seaside British town.
The Intended
2002-06-06
A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading po
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
1992-11-15
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel
Resurrection
1999-03-15
After a woman is crippled in an auto accident which killed her husband, she suddenly develops the po
Swann
1997-03-01
Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as s
The American
1998-12-26
After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to Fra
The Woman Who Married Clark Gable
1985-08-28
Period drama. A woman living in Dublin in the late 1930's relieves her humdrum existence with fantas
Durango
1999-04-25
In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattl
I Was a Rat
2001-12-09
A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is co
Stone of Destiny
2008-12-19
Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Sco
Your Man from Six Counties
1976-10-26
When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west Irel
Cupid & Cate
2000-05-07
Cate has a small boutique where she sells vintage clothes. She is dating Phillip, a snob whose paren
The Swallow
2024-08-29
In a small house, on the Irish coast, a woman writes a letter to an unknown correspondent. She ponde
Out of Ireland
1995-06-09
Over the course of two centuries, seven million men, women and children abandoned their homeland for
The Liberties
2009-02-06
A series of twelve short films, each encapsulating a different aspect of the famous Dublin inner-cit
Muide Éire
2011-11-06
Muide Eire / We are Ireland documents the history of Ireland on screen. From the horse drawn carriag