Brenda Fricker, the Oscar-winning Irish actress, has died at age 81, her agent confirmed Friday. Fricker was the first Irish woman to win an Academy Award, which she scooped in 1990 for best supporting actress for her role in “My Left Foot.”
Notable Roles
Fricker’s acting career included more than 30 roles in movies and TV, including her famous outing as the homeless “pigeon lady” who befriended Macauley Culkin in “Home Alone 2.” She played opposite Olympia Dukakis in the 2011 film “Cloudburst” and with Cate Blanchett in “Veronica Guerin” in 2003.
Fricker last year published a memoir entitled “She Died Young: A Life in Fragments.” According to the book’s publisher, Bloomsbury, it covered her early years in Ireland, but also the “difficulty of surviving sexual violence and living with mental illness.”
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