Anna Manahan
Date of birth: 1924-10-18
Place of birth: County Waterford, Ireland
Known for: Acting
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Biography
Anna Maria Manahan (18 October 1924 – 8 March 2009) was an Irish stage, film and television actress. Manahan received two Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play nominations for her performances in the 1968 production of Lovers and the 1998 production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, the latter for which she won at the 52nd Tony Awards. Manahan was also nominated for two Drama Desk Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award in her career spanned more than 60 years. She interpreted the works of, among others, Seán O'Casey, John B. Keane, John Millington Synge, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Martin McDonagh, Christy Brown, and Brian Friel.
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Clash of the Titans
1981-06-12
To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-G
All Dogs Go to Heaven
1989-11-17
When a casino-owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1977-09-01
Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of th
A Business Affair
1994-03-16
This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Ale
A Tale of Two Cities
1980-12-02
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto
The Glory Hole
1982-08-10
Cathy and Noel are a Catholic and a protestant soldier. They fall in love, to their cost.
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2000-07-12
Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a m
The Rug
1985-01-01
A story of loss told through a daughter looking back on her mother’s life in rural Ireland who recei
The Treaty
1991-12-05
How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins,
Hear My Song
1991-12-27
Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chi
Fatal Inheritance
1991-10-01
Jack Carnegie is an American 'heir-hunter', whose job it is to trace unknown family members who shou
Ulysses
1967-03-14
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering
Lucky
1974-02-05
“Set in Liverpool in the early 70s, the film tells the story of Samuel 'Lucky' Ubooto, a half Africa
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
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006-05-02
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broa
The Country Girls
1984-04-01
The lifelong friendship of two rural Irish girls is put on the test when they grow up and leave for
Katie: The Year of a Child
1979-12-13
Katie, the 14-year-old daughter of a travelling family, is left in charge of an ailing mother and he
She Didn't Say No!
1958-09-30
Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conserva
Juno and the Paycock
1980-04-12
During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life