Sinéad Cusack
Actor
- Born
- February 18, 1948 (age 78) · 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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Known for
V for Vendetta
February 23, 2006
Wrath of the Titans
March 28, 2012
Eastern Promises
September 14, 2007
Napoleon
November 22, 2023
Stonehearst Asylum
October 23, 2014
Stealing Beauty
March 29, 1996
Cracks
December 4, 2009
The Cement Garden
February 20, 1993
I Capture the Castle
May 9, 2003
Queen & Country
January 7, 2015
Uncovered
January 4, 1995
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
June 15, 1977
Acting59
- 2026The Three Urns as Deirdre
- 2025Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now as Self
- 2024And Mrs. as Lorraine
- 2024Alec Guinness: A Class Act as self
- 2024This Is Not An Attack On Your Parenting
- 2024National Theatre Live: People, Places and Things as Doctor/Therapist/Mum
- 2023Napoleon as Letizia Bonaparte
- 2022Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman as Self
- 2020Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy as Self
- 2018National Theatre Live: King Lear