Sinéad Cusack
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · National Theatre Live: People, Places and Things as Doctor/Thrapist/Mum
- 2023 · Napoleon as Letizia Bonaparte
- 2022 · North Sea Connection as Moira Kenny
- 2022 · The Baby as Barbara
- 2019 · MotherFatherSon as Maggie Barns
- 2018 · National Theatre Live: King Lear as Kent
- 2016 · Marcella as Sylvie Gibson
- 2014 · Stonehearst Asylum as Mrs. Pike
- 2014 · 37 Days as Margot Asquith
- 2012 · Wrath of the Titans as Clea
- 2011 · Camelot as Sybil
- 2011 · Camelot as Sibyl
- 2010 · The Deep as Meg Sinclair
- 2009 · Cracks as Miss Nieven
- 2007 · Eastern Promises as Helen
- 2006 · V for Vendetta as Delia Surridge
- 2005 · Summer Solstice as Elfrida
- 2005 · Dad as Sandy James
- 2005 · Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love as
- 2004 · North & South as Hannah Thornton
- 2003 · Winter Solstice as Elfrida Phibbs
- 2003 · I Capture the Castle as Mrs Cotton
- 2000 · Passion of Mind as Jessie
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Stella Harris
- 1996 · Stealing Beauty as Diana Grayson
- 1995 · Oliver's Travels as WPC Diane Priest
- 1995 · Uncovered as Menchu
- 1993 · The Cement Garden as Mother
- 1992 · Waterland as Mary Crick
- 1991 · Performance as Nelly Mann
- 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Mrs. Amy Folliat
- 1988 · Rocket Gibraltar as Amanda 'Billi' Rockwell (as Sinead Cusack)
- 1984 · Playing Shakespeare as
- 1977 · BBC2 Play of the Week as Monique
- 1977 · Supernatural as Leonora
- 1975 · Quiller as Roz
- 1974 · Notorious Woman as Marie Dorval
- 1973 · Thriller as Sally
- 1972 · The Protectors as Anne Ferris
- 1971 · The Persuaders! as Jenny Lindley
- 1970 · Menace as
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Lady Rosaline
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Trilby
- Future · Dog & Bull as
- 2026 · The Three Urns as Deirdre
- 2025 · Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now as Self
- 2024 · And Mrs. as Lorraine
- 2024 · Alec Guinness: A Class Act as self
- 2024 · This Is Not An Attack On Your Parenting as
- 2022 · Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman as Self
- 2020 · Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy as Self
- 2018 · Beast as Penelope
- 2015 · Queen & Country as Grace Rohan
- 2013 · The Sea as Anna Morden
- 2007 · A Room with a View as Miss Lavish
- 2006 · The Tiger's Tail as Oona O'Leary
- 2006 · Home Again as
- 2006 · Mathilde as Wife of Col. De Petris
- 2005 · The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle as Mary Doyle
- 2003 · Winter Solstice as Elfrida Phibbs
- 2001 · Dream as Kathleen
- 2000 · My Mother Frank as Frances 'Frank' Kennedy
- 1998 · The Nephew as Brenda O'Boyce
- 1997 · Food for Ravens as Jennie Lee
- 1994 · Sparrow as Matilde
- 1993 · Bad Behavior as Ellie McAllister
- 1992 · God on the Rocks as Ellie Marsh
- 1992 · Tales from Hollywood as Nelly Mann
- 1989 · The Hen House as Lily
- 1989 · Venus Peter as Miss Balsilbie
- 1985 · Cyrano de Bergerac as Roxanne
- 1980 · Twelfth Night as Olivia
- 1977 · The Kitchen as Monique
- 1977 · The Last Remake of Beau Geste as Isabel Geste
- 1975 · Love's Labour's Lost as Rosaline
- 1974 · The Playboy of the Western World as Margaret Flaherty (Pegeen Mike)
- 1973 · Horowitz in Dublin as Liz
- 1973 · The Eyes Have It as Sally
- 1972 · Scoop as Katchen
- 1971 · Revenge as Rose
- 1970 · The Ballad of Tam Lin as Rose
- 1970 · The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer as Yvonne (Uncredited)
- 1970 · The Dolly Scene as Anna
- 1970 · A Sound from the Sea as Catherine
- 1970 · Hoffman as Miss Smith
- 1969 · David Copperfield as Emily
- Future · The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes as Molly



