Brenda Fricker
Irish actress (1945–2026)
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- Brenda Fricker (17 February 1945 – 16 July 2026) was an Irish actress, whose career spanned six decades on stage and screen.
- 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).
- Fricker was honoured with the inaugural Maureen O'Hara Award at the Kerry Film Festival in 2008.
- Early life Brenda Fricker was born on 17 February 1945 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Her mother "Bina" (née Murphy) was from Gneeveguilla, County Kerry.
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WikipediaBrenda Fricker (17 February 1945 – 16 July 2026) was an Irish actress, whose career spanned six decades on stage and screen. She appeared in more than thirty 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).
Fricker was honoured with the inaugural Maureen O'Hara Award at the Kerry Film Festival in 2008. In 2020, The Irish Times ranked her 26th on its list of the greatest Irish film actors of all time.
Brenda Fricker was born on 17 February 1945 in Dublin, Ireland. She had an older sister, Gránia. Her mother "Bina" (née Murphy) was from Gneeveguilla, County Kerry. Bina taught languages at Stratford College in Rathgar, and Fricker's father, Desmond Frederick Fricker, worked in the Department of Agriculture and, as "Fred Desmond", was a broadcaster with RTÉ and a journalist for The Irish Times.
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