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Sinéad Cusack

Born 1948-02-18
📍 Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland

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.

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Filmography 81

The Three Urns
as Deirdre
2026
Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now
as Self
2025
And Mrs.
as Lorraine
2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
2024
This Is Not An Attack On Your Parenting
2024
National Theatre Live: People, Places and Things
as Doctor/Thrapist/Mum
2024
Napoleon
as Letizia Bonaparte
2023
North Sea Connection
as Moira Kenny
2022
The Baby
as Barbara
2022
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
as Self
2022
Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
as Self
2020
MotherFatherSon
as Maggie Barns
2019
National Theatre Live: King Lear
as Kent
2018
Beast
as Penelope
2018
Marcella
as Sylvie Gibson
2016
Queen & Country
as Grace Rohan
2015
Stonehearst Asylum
as Mrs. Pike
2014
37 Days
as Margot Asquith
2014
The Sea
as Anna Morden
2013
Wrath of the Titans
as Clea
2012
Camelot
as Sybil
2011
Camelot
as Sibyl
2011
The Deep
as Meg Sinclair
2010
Cracks
as Miss Nieven
2009
A Room with a View
as Miss Lavish
2007
Eastern Promises
as Helen
2007
The Tiger's Tail
as Oona O'Leary
2006
V for Vendetta
as Delia Surridge
2006
Mathilde
as Wife of Col. De Petris
2006
Summer Solstice
as Elfrida
2005
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
as Mary Doyle
2005
Dad
as Sandy James
2005
Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love
2005
North & South
as Hannah Thornton
2004
Winter Solstice
as Elfrida Phibbs
2003
Winter Solstice
as Elfrida Phibbs
2003
I Capture the Castle
as Mrs Cotton
2003
Dream
as Kathleen
2001
My Mother Frank
as Frances 'Frank' Kennedy
2000
Passion of Mind
as Jessie
2000
The Nephew
as Brenda O'Boyce
1998
Food for Ravens
as Jennie Lee
1997
Midsomer Murders
as Stella Harris
1997
Stealing Beauty
as Diana Grayson
1996
Oliver's Travels
as WPC Diane Priest
1995
Uncovered
as Menchu
1995
Sparrow
as Matilde
1994
Bad Behavior
as Ellie McAllister
1993
The Cement Garden
as Mother
1993
God on the Rocks
as Ellie Marsh
1992
Tales from Hollywood
as Nelly Mann
1992
Waterland
as Mary Crick
1992
Performance
as Nelly Mann
1991
The Hen House
as Lily
1989
Venus Peter
as Miss Balsilbie
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs. Amy Folliat
1989
Rocket Gibraltar
as Amanda 'Billi' Rockwell (as Sinead Cusack)
1988
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Twelfth Night
as Olivia
1980
The Kitchen
as Monique
1977
BBC2 Play of the Week
as Monique
1977
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
as Isabel Geste
1977
Supernatural
as Leonora
1977
Love's Labour's Lost
as Rosaline
1975
Notorious Woman
as Marie Dorval
1974
Horowitz in Dublin
as Liz
1973
The Eyes Have It
as Sally
1973
Thriller
as Sally
1973
The Protectors
as Anne Ferris
1972
The Persuaders!
as Jenny Lindley
1971
Revenge
as Rose
1971
The Ballad of Tam Lin
as Rose
1970
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
as Yvonne (Uncredited)
1970
Hoffman
as Miss Smith
1970
David Copperfield
as Emily
1969
ITV Playhouse
as Mary
1967
ITV Playhouse
as Catherine
1967
BBC Play of the Month
as Lady Rosaline
1965
BBC Play of the Month
as Trilby
1965
Armchair Theatre
as Amora
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956