Irish actress Brenda Fricker, who won an Oscar for her role in My Left Foot, has died aged 81. Her agent Phil Belfield said in a statement that
Irish actress Brenda Fricker, who won an Oscar for her role in My Left Foot, has died aged 81.
Her agent Phil Belfield said in a statement that she died after a period of ill health. “We will never see her like again and the world is lesser for the lack of her,” he added. ”I was honoured to know, love and work with her and she will always have a place in my heart and in the heart of so many film and TV fans the world over.”
Fricker won the Oscar for best supporting actress in 1990 for My Left Foot, beating the likes of Julia Roberts and Angelica Huston to the prize and becoming the first Irish actress to win an Academy Award. She played the mother of Daniel Day-Lewis’s character in the film.
Further film roles include Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Veronica Guerin and Albert Nobbs.
She was also a regular cast member of BBC series Casualty from its launch in 1986 until 2010.
