Brenda Fricker : Actress Height, Weight, Age, Movies, Biography, News, Images & Videos

Brenda Fricker is an Irish former actress, whose career spanned six decades on stage and screen. She has appeared in more than 30 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.

Brenda Fricker Movies and TV Shows

• A Long Way From Home [6 December 2013 (United Kingdom)]

  A bored British retiree (James Fox) becomes increasingly drawn to a pair of young tourists who remind him of himself in his younger days.

• A Man of No Importance [10 September 1994]

  In early-1960s Dublin, bus conductor Alfie Byrne (Albert Finney) lives quietly, leading a local amateur theatrical troupe and keeping house with his sister, Lily (Brenda Fricker). Deeply closeted at a time when homosexuality is still a criminal offense in Ireland, the middle-aged Alfie creates a local scandal when he announces a production of Oscar Wilde's play "Salome," starring country girl Adele (Tara Fitzgerald) and Robbie (Rufus Sewell), the bus driver for whom Alfie secretly pines.… MORE

• A Time to Kill [24 July 1996 (USA)]

  After his ten-year-old daughter is raped, Carl murders her perpetrators. He then faces a trial and calls upon his friend Jake Tyler, a lawyer, to help him win the case.

• Albert Nobbs [26 December 2011 (New Zealand)]

  Albert Nobbs works in a posh hotel and struggles to lead an independent life in Ireland. He meets a handsome painter who comes to know of his real identity that he's been hiding.

• Angels in the Outfield [15 July 1994 (USA)]

  Roger, a young boy, pleads with God for a real family and a victory for his favourite basketball team. To his surprise, a few angels descend and decide to help him fulfil his prolonged wishes.

• Bloody Kids [December 1979 (United Kingdom)]

  Two boys pull a Saturday night prank on the police in a seaside British town.

• Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss [29 March 2004]

  In this biopic, after her boyfriend (Robert Davi) introduces her to the aging Madam Alex (Brenda Fricker), 27-year-old Heidi Fleiss (Jamie-Lynn DiScala) decides she's found her true calling. Fleiss starts her own prostitution service, recruiting Alex's girls by telling them their boss is an LAPD informant. Soon, she's making six figures providing sex and drugs to top actors and politicians. And when the authorities finally catch her, the scandal that erupts makes her an international celebrity.… MORE

• Closing the Ring [14 September 2007]

  In 1943, a gunner breathing his last after a crash, hands over a ring to a local, asking him to return it to his girl in the US. Fifty years later, a man finds the ring and tracks down the girlfriend.

• Cloudburst [8 September 2012 (Germany)]

  A lesbian couple escape from their nursing home and head up to Canada to get married. Along the way, they pick up a young, male hitchhiker.

• Conspiracy of Silence [2003]

  A can of worms is opened within the Irish Catholic Church, following the suicide of a parish priest, and the expulsion of a young trainee, on the grounds that he was open to sexual advances from a male colleague.

• Cupid & Cate [2000]

  Three sisters help a fourth (Mary-Louise Parker), the youngest, find love, succeed in business and make amends with their father (Philip Bosco).

• Deadly [July 2014 (Ireland)]

• Deadly Advice [29 April 1994 (United Kingdom)]

  Legendary murderers advise a shy bookworm (Jane Horrocks) on how to eliminate her tyrannical mother (Brenda Fricker).

• Durango [25 April 1999]

  In 1939 Ireland, a young farmer embarks on a gruelling 40-mile cattle drive across the country in a bid to prove himself in the eyes of his girlfriend's tough, uncompromising father.

• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York [20 November 1992 (USA)]

  Kevin accidentally boards a flight to New York City and gets separated from his family who are on their way to Miami. He then bumps into two of his old enemies, who plan to rob a toy store.

• How About You [16 November 2007]

  When Kate (Orla Brady) is called away from the retirement home she runs to take care of her mother, she is forced to leave her rebellious little sister, Ellie (Hayley Atwell), in charge of the four residents who are staying at the home over holiday break. These four are nicknamed "the hardcore" because of their mean-spirited ways, and they quickly try to break Ellie of her happy-go-lucky demeanor. But both "the hardcore" and Ellie soon discover that they can learn a lot from each other.… MORE

• I Was a Rat [Laurie Lynd]

  When a guileless boy (Calum Worthy), who was once a rat, is accidentally left behind, a kindly couple (Tom Conti, Brenda Fricker) takes him in.

• Inside I'm Dancing [15 October 2004 (United Kingdom)]

  In a Dublin home for the disabled, Michael Connolly (Steven Robertson) leads a glum, introverted existence; his cerebral palsy makes it difficult for anyone to understand his speech. But everything changes when Rory O'Shea (James McAvoy) enters his life. Although muscular dystrophy limits Rory to a wheelchair, he has the wild, carefree attitude that Michael lacks. Together, they make an unstoppable team -- eventually landing their own apartment and a beautiful assistant (Romola Garai).… MORE

• Journey [10 December 1995]

  In this drama based on a novel by Patricia MacLachlan, 11-year-old Journey (Max Pomeranc) is heartbroken when his mother, Min (Meg Tilly), skips town, leaving him and his sister, Cat (Eliza Dushku), alone. Then they are sent to live on the family farm with their grandmother Lottie (Brenda Fricker) and grandfather Marcus (Jason Robards). It's a difficult transition, but over time Journey gets used to his new life, especially when Marcus helps the him develop an interest in photography.… MORE

• Lethal Innocence [13 November 1991]

  Three women (Blair Brown, Brenda Fricker, Teresa Wright) lead a Vermont town's adoption of a Cambodian family, refugees from the Khmer Rouge.

• Locked In [17 September 2010]

  When Josh leaves his advertising career, his daughter has a car accident which leaves her in a coma and when everyone has given up, she starts communicating with him.

• Masterminds [6 December 1997 (South Korea)]

  In this action comedy, a rebellious teen uses his talent for pranks to outwit the security consultant, who has taken the students at a prestigious private school hostage.

• Moll Flanders [14 June 1996 (USA)]

  After her mother is executed as a thief, young Moll Flanders (Robin Wright) flees the orphanage in which she was placed and abused by a cruel priest, and eventually becomes a prostitute under the supervision of the deceitful Mrs. Allworthy (Stockard Channing). Her only ally is Allworthy's servant, Hibble (Morgan Freeman), a kind man who keeps her spirits up. Eventually, Moll falls for Jonathan (John Lynch), a charismatic artist who renews her faith in life and love.… MORE

• My Left Foot [24 February 1989 (Dublin)]

  My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown, also known simply as My Left Foot, is a 1989 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jim Sheridan adapted by Sheridan and Shane Connaughton from the 1954 memoir of the same name by Christy Brown.

• No Tears []

  A scandal erupts in Ireland when it is discovered that some women were given a blood product in the 1970s that was contaminated with hepatitis C.

• Of Human Bondage [23 September 1964]

  The movie revolves around a medical student who becomes obsessed with his faithless lover.

• Omagh [22 May 2004 (Ireland)]

  Survivors and victims' families struggle to cope after a car bomb kills 29 people in a Northern Ireland town in 1998.

• Painted Angels [4 February 1998]

  Women (Brenda Fricker, Kelly McGillis, Meret Becker) of an 1870s Midwestern prairie town survive by working as prostitutes in a brothel.

• Pete's Meteor [1998]

  Lives change for members of an Irish family after a meteor crashes in their backyard. The kids believe that it was sent down to them by their dead parents, but the government hauls the rock away and sends it to the local university.

• Quatermass Conclusion [1979]

  Professor Quatermass investigates an alien ray that is hypnotically drawing England's children to Stonehenge.

• Resurrection Man [13 February 1998 (United Kingdom)]

  Fictionalised account of the Shankhill Butchers, a group of 70s Belfast-based Protestant paramilitaries whose motives went from sectarianism to simple, bloody and horrific psychotic murder of innocent Catholics. Victor, a new recruit, soon becomes the leader through his driving homicidal rage.

• Shamrock Boy [6 June 2015]

• Sinful Davey [7 May 1969 (USA)]

  Though his father received a death sentence for thievery, Davey Haggart (John Hurt) nevertheless wants to be a criminal too. He quits the military and starts carrying out small-time robberies. His pal Annie (Pamela Franklin) wants him to quit the criminal life, but she grudgingly helps him avoid law enforcement. Finally, though, Constable Richardson (Nigel Davenport) catches up with Davey, who will be hanged unless Annie and a fellow thief named MacNab (Ronald Fraser) can stop his execution.… MORE

• So I Married an Axe Murderer [30 July 1993 (USA)]

  Charlie, a poet who has no luck with women, falls in love with Harriet. However, he soon starts suspecting her to be a dangerous serial killer.

• Stone of Destiny [10 October 2008 (United Kingdom)]

  As Scotland fails to establish its own parliament once again, young patriot Ian Hamilton vows to salvage national pride by returning the Stone of Destiny, a symbol of Scottish sovereignty to its rightful place. Trouble is, the talismanic brick has been housed in Westminster Abbey under watchful English eyes since 1296.

• Swann [3 January 1997 (South Africa)]

  A Chicago biographer (Miranda Richardson) goes to meet the friend (Brenda Fricker) of an Ontario poet slain by her farmer husband.

• Tara Road [29 September 2005 (Ireland)]

  Two women going through personal crises, Ria Lynch in Dublin and Marilyn Vine in New England, do a house swap, in the process proving the old saying that a change is as good as a rest.

• The American [1 September 2010 (Kazakhstan)]

  Jack, a contract killer, is asked to design a high-end sniper rifle for an assassination. However, he isn't aware that all his actions are being monitored by a secret assassin from Sweden.

• The Ballroom of Romance [1986]

  Rural Ireland in the 1950s offers little in the way of entertainment and socializing, save for dance halls. Bridie (Brenda Fricker) finds herself drifting into spinsterhood and decides to give the hall, essentially a barn located in the fields outside her village, one last try. Although she recalls her younger days of happiness on the dance floor, the present doesn't offer much romance, and Bridie eventually finds herself uneasily in the arms of the hard-drinking Bowser (John Kavanagh).… MORE

• The Field [21 September 1990 (Ireland)]

  "Bull" McCabe (Richard Harris) has spent three decades tending a rented field on the bluffs by the sea in Ireland. When the wealthy widow who owns the plot decides to sell it, she holds an open auction to spite McCabe. A rich American (Tom Berenger) with visions of a factory on the site outbids him, and McCabe then schemes with his emotionally crippled son, Tadgh (Sean Bean), to hold on to the land -- his only consolation in a life of loss, toil and a marriage gone sour.… MORE

• The Intended [6 September 2002]

  Sent by a company that trades in ivory, Englishman Hamish Winslow (JJ Feild) and his fiancée, Sarah Morris (Janet McTeer), journey to Malaysia to survey the station run by Mrs. Jones (Brenda Fricker). The couple are disheartened by the conditions, which are made worse by tensions that exist between whites and natives, as well as between Mrs. Jones and her emotionally imbalanced son, William (Tony Maudsley). When circumstances send William into a rage, Hamish and Sarah must protect themselves.… MORE

• The Music Machine [26 October 1979]

  The Music Machine is a 1979 British musical drama film directed by Ian Sharp and starring Gerry Sundquist, Patti Boulaye and David Easter. It was called the first all-British disco film.

• The Sound and the Silence [18 April 1992]

  The story of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell (John Bach) includes his youth, marriage and work with the deaf.

• The War Bride [8 December 2001 (South Korea)]

  Set during World War II, Lily and Sophie are two young women working as seamstresses during the Blitz in the East End of London. They meet and fall for two Canadian servicemen, Charlie and Louie. The two couples are married within a couple of weeks and in due course the men are shipped off to the front. Lily and Sophie then receive instructions from the Canadian Embassy that they are to travel to Canada to live with their new in-laws.… MORE

• The Woman Who Married Clark Gable [28 August 1985]

• Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story [18 March 2002]

  he murder trial of Evelyn Dick remains one of the most sensationalized events in Canadian crime history. Evelyn was arrested after local children found the torso of her missing, estranged husband. The head and limbs had been sawed from the body and evidence was later discovered that they had been burned in the furnace of her home. When she was sentenced to hang, her lawyer J.J. Robinette appealed her case, and won an acquittal.… MORE

• Trauma [17 September 2004]

  A man wakes up from a comatose state to find that his wife has died in an accident. As he tries to recover, he is bedevilled by images of his dead wife and his grip on reality starts to loosen.

• Utz [15 March 1992 (United Kingdom)]

  A New York antique dealer comes to realise the true meaning of the figurines in an elderly man's priceless collection.

• Veronica Guerin [1 October 2003 (France)]

  In this true story, Veronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett) is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor (Ciarán Hinds), a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan (Gerard McSorley), the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.… MORE

• Watermelon [16 April 2003]

  Charming witty comedy drama, inspired by the best-selling novel by Marian Keyes, of what happens when a tangled web of deceit pitches one woman, two men and a baby into a romantic minefield.

• We Are Ireland [6 November 2011]

  Colin Farrell, Aidan Quinn, Brenda Fricker, Neil Jordan and others explore how Ireland and its people have been portrayed in film.