Brenda Fricker obituary

Actor who was the first Irish woman to win an Oscar for her role in the 1989 film classic My Left Foot Brenda Fricker, who has died aged 81, was only the second Irish actor – and the first female one – to win an Oscar, for her role as Daniel Day-Lewis’s mother in the 1989 film My Left Foot, after shooting to fame in the original cast of the BBC medical drama Casualty. As the nurse Megan Roach, she was the Mother Earth of the fictional Holby City hospital’s A&E department for the programme’s f...

By Anthony Hayward

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