Sinéad Cusack
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
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 a...
Known For
Filmography
The Three Urns
2026
as Deirdre
Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now
2025
as Self
This Is Not An Attack On Your Parenting
2024
And Mrs.
2024
as Lorraine
National Theatre Live: People, Places and Things
2024
as Doctor/Therapist/Mum
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
as self
Napoleon
2023
as Letizia Bonaparte
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
2022
as Self
The Baby
2022
as Barbara
North Sea Connection
2022
as Moira Kenny
Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
2020
as Self
MotherFatherSon
2019
as Maggie Barns
Beast
2018
as Penelope
National Theatre Live: King Lear
2018
as Kent
Marcella
2016
as Sylvie Gibson
Queen & Country
2015
as Grace Rohan
Stonehearst Asylum
2014
as Mrs. Pike
37 Days
2014
as Margot Asquith
The Sea
2013
as Anna Morden
Wrath of the Titans
2012
as Clea
Camelot
2011
as Sybil
Camelot
2011
as Sibyl
The Deep
2010
as Meg Sinclair
Cracks
2009
as Miss Nieven
A Room with a View
2008
as Miss Lavish
Eastern Promises
2007
as Helen
A Room with a View
2007
as Miss Lavish
V for Vendetta
2006
as Delia Surridge
The Tiger's Tail
2006
as Oona O'Leary
Mathilde
2006
as Wife of Col. De Petris
Home Again
2006
Dad
2005
as Sandy James
Summer Solstice
2005
as Elfrida
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005
as Mary Doyle
Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love
2005
North & South
2004
as Hannah Thornton
I Capture the Castle
2003
as Mrs Cotton
Winter Solstice
2003
as Elfrida Phibbs
Winter Solstice
2003
as Elfrida Phibbs
Dream
2001
as Kathleen
My Mother Frank
2000
as Frances 'Frank' Kennedy
Passion of Mind
2000
as Jessie
The Nephew
1998
as Brenda O'Boyce
Food for Ravens
1997
as Jennie Lee
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Stella Harris
Stealing Beauty
1996
as Diana Grayson
Uncovered
1995
as Menchu
Oliver's Travels
1995
as WPC Diane Priest
Sparrow
1994
as Matilde
The Cement Garden
1993
as Mother
Bad Behavior
1993
as Ellie McAllister
Waterland
1992
as Mary Crick
Tales from Hollywood
1992
as Nelly Mann
God on the Rocks
1992
as Ellie Marsh
Performance
1991
as Nelly Mann
The Hen House
1989
as Lily
Venus Peter
1989
as Miss Balsilbie
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Mrs. Amy Folliat
Rocket Gibraltar
1988
as Amanda 'Billi' Rockwell (as Sinead Cusack)
ScreenPlay
1986
as Lily
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985
as Roxanne
Screen Two
1985
as Mother
Playing Shakespeare
1984
American Playhouse
1982
as Nelly Mann
Twelfth Night
1980
as Olivia
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
as Olivia
The Kitchen
1977
as Monique
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
1977
as Isabel Geste
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
as Monique
Supernatural
1977
as Leonora
Romance
1977
as Ermine
Love's Labour's Lost
1975
as Rosaline
Quiller
1975
as Roz
The Playboy of the Western World
1974
as Margaret Flaherty (Pegeen Mike)
Notorious Woman
1974
as Marie Dorval
Affairs of the Heart
1974
as Bessie Alden
Horowitz in Dublin
1973
as Liz
The Eyes Have It
1973
as Sally
Thriller
1973
as Sally
The Protectors
1972
as Anne Ferris
Scoop
1972
as Katchen
Revenge
1971
as Rose
The Persuaders!
1971
as Jenny Lindley
Stage 2
1971
as Minnie Powell
Hoffman
1970
as Miss Smith
The Ballad of Tam Lin
1970
as Rose
A Sound from the Sea
1970
as Catherine
The Dolly Scene
1970
as Anna
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970
as Yvonne (Uncredited)
Menace
1970
as Sylvia Terry
The Sinners
1970
as Polly Donegan
David Copperfield
1969
as Emily
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Mary
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Catherine
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Lady Rosaline
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Trilby
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Amora
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee