Sinéad Cusack
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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
V for Vendetta (2006)
as Delia Surridge
Wrath of the Titans (2012)
as Clea
Napoleon (2023)
as Letizia Bonaparte
Eastern Promises (2007)
as Helen
Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
as Mrs. Pike
Stealing Beauty (1996)
as Diana Grayson
Cracks (2009)
as Miss Nieven
And Mrs. (2024)
as Lorraine
Passion of Mind (2000)
as Jessie
The Cement Garden (1993)
as Mother
I Capture the Castle (2003)
as Mrs Cotton
The Three Urns (2026)
as Deirdre
Dad (2005)
as Sandy James
The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)
as Isabel Geste
Queen & Country (2015)
as Grace Rohan
The Ballad of Tam Lin (1970)
as Rose
The Tiger's Tail (2006)
as Oona O'Leary
Rocket Gibraltar (1988)
as Amanda 'Billi' Rockwell (as Sinead Cusack)
Sparrow (1994)
as Matilde
A Room with a View (2007)
as Miss Lavish
Waterland (1992)
as Mary Crick
National Theatre Live: King Lear (2018)
as Kent
Beast (2018)
as Penelope
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle (2005)
as Mary Doyle
Uncovered (1995)
as Menchu
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes (—)
as Molly
Love's Labour's Lost (1975)
as Rosaline
The Nephew (1998)
as Brenda O'Boyce
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman (2022)
as Self
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970)
as Yvonne (Uncredited)
Winter Solstice (2003)
as Elfrida Phibbs
Alec Guinness: A Class Act (2024)
as self
God on the Rocks (1992)
as Ellie Marsh
The Sea (2013)
as Anna Morden
Revenge (1971)
as Rose
A Sound from the Sea (1970)
as Catherine
The Eyes Have It (1973)
as Sally
Food for Ravens (1997)
as Jennie Lee
Hoffman (1970)
as Miss Smith
National Theatre Live: People, Places and Things (2024)
as Doctor/Therapist/Mum
Twelfth Night (1980)
as Olivia
Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy (2020)
as Self
David Copperfield (1969)
as Emily
Summer Solstice (2005)
as Elfrida
Cyrano de Bergerac (1985)
as Roxanne
Tales from Hollywood (1992)
as Nelly Mann
The Playboy of the Western World (1974)
as Margaret Flaherty (Pegeen Mike)
My Mother Frank (2000)
as Frances 'Frank' Kennedy
Venus Peter (1989)
as Miss Balsilbie
Bad Behavior (1993)
as Ellie McAllister
Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now (2025)
as Self
The Kitchen (1977)
as Monique
This Is Not An Attack On Your Parenting (2024)
Actor
Horowitz in Dublin (1973)
as Liz
Dog & Bull (—)
Actor
Mathilde (2006)
as Wife of Col. De Petris
Dream (2001)
as Kathleen
The Hen House (1989)
as Lily
The Dolly Scene (1970)
as Anna