Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1948-02-18 (Age: 78)
Place of Birth
Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland
Sinéad Cusack
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 (57)
The Three Urns
2026
Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now
2025
And Mrs.
2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
This Is Not An Attack On Your Parenting
2024
National Theatre Live: People, Places and Things
2024
Napoleon
2023
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
2022
Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
2020
National Theatre Live: King Lear
2018
Beast
2018
Queen & Country
2015
Stonehearst Asylum
2014
The Sea
2013
