
Brenda Fricker
Highest Rated: 100% Cloudburst (2011)
Lowest Rated: 19% Masterminds (1997)
Birthday: Feb 17, 1945
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
This frumpy, maternal, Irish character actress gained experience in Irish theatre and with the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Court Theatre Company in Great Britain. Brenda Fricker received great acclaim for her Oscar-winning supporting performance as the determined mother of a son afflicted with cerebral palsy in "My Left Foot" (1989). Venturing to Hollywood in the 1990s, she played a homeless woman befriended by kid-on-the-loose Macaulay Culkin in the sequel "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" (1992) and followed up with a more zany mother role in the little-seen "So I Married an Axe Murderer" (1993). Having acted on English TV on the BBC series "Casualty," Fricker began conquering US TV with roles in the "American Playhouse" presentation "Lethal Innocence" (1991) and the miniseries "The Sound and the Silence" (1993). Fricker offered memorable support as Albert Finney's exasperated sister in "A Man of No Importance" (1994) and appeared in support of Robin Wright in Pen Densham's "Moll Flanders" and as Matthew McConaughey's secretary in Joel Schumacher's "A Time to Kill" (both 1996).
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
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33% | 33% | A Long Way From Home | Brenda (Character) | - | 2013 |
100% | 77% | Cloudburst | Dot (Character) | - | 2011 |
56% | 47% | Albert Nobbs | Polly (Character) | $70.4K | 2011 |
No Score Yet | 14% | Locked In | Joan (Character) | - | 2010 |
53% | 58% | Stone of Destiny | Mrs. McQuarry (Character) | - | 2008 |
64% | 53% | How About You | Heather (Character) | $77.6K | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Tara Road | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 45% | Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss | Madame Alex (Character) | - | 2004 |
29% | 25% | Trauma | Petra (Character) | - | 2004 |
88% | 79% | Omagh | Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan (Character) | - | 2004 |
49% | 88% | Inside I'm Dancing | Eileen (Character) | $20.3K | 2004 |
53% | 69% | Veronica Guerin | Bernadette Guerin (Character) | $1.6M | 2003 |
36% | 52% | Conspiracy of Silence | Annie McLaughlin (Character) | $2.6K | 2003 |
No Score Yet | 43% | Watermelon | Teresa Ryan (Character) | - | 2003 |
33% | 36% | The Intended | Mrs. Jones (Character) | $7.5K | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | No Tears | Grainne McFadden (Character) | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Was a Rat | Joan Jones (Character) | - | 2001 |
57% | 77% | The War Bride | Betty (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 41% | Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story | Alexandra MacLean (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 53% | Cupid & Cate | Willie Hendley (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Durango | Aunt Maeve (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 0% | The American | Unknown (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Resurrection | Clare's mother (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 23% | Pete's Meteor | Lily (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Painted Angels | Annie Ryan (Character) | - | 1998 |
19% | 49% | Masterminds | Principal Maloney (Character) | $1.9M | 1997 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Resurrection Man | Dorcas Kelly (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Swann | Rose Hindmarch (Character) | - | 1996 |
43% | 72% | Moll Flanders | Mrs. Mazzawatti (Character) | $3.4M | 1996 |
67% | 85% | A Time to Kill | Ethel Twitty (Character) | $108.7M | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Journey | Lottie (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | 20% | Deadly Advice | Iris Greenwood (Character) | - | 1994 |
86% | 63% | A Man of No Importance | Lily Byrne (Character) | - | 1994 |
33% | 49% | Angels in the Outfield | Maggie Nelson (Character) | $50.2M | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Seekers | Stella Hazard (Character) | - | 1993 |
53% | 68% | So I Married an Axe Murderer | May Mackenzie (Character) | $9M | 1993 |
34% | 61% | Home Alone 2: Lost in New York | Central Park Pigeon Woman (Character) | $172.7M | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Utz | Marta (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sound and the Silence | Eliza (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lethal Innocence | Vinnie (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | 79% | Brides of Christ | Unknown (Character) | - | 1991 |
43% | 81% | The Field | Maggie McCabe (Character) | $168.2K | 1990 |
98% | 92% | My Left Foot | Mrs. Brown (Character) | $14.5M | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ballroom of Romance | Bridie (Character) | - | 1982 |
43% | 29% | Sinful Davey | Unknown (Character) | - | 1968 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Casualty | Megan Roach (Character) | 2010 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Relative Strangers | Unknown (Character) | 2006 |
QUOTES FROM Brenda Fricker CHARACTERS
Mrs. Brown says: You break my heart Christy Brown. Sometimes I think you ARE me heart!
Mrs. Brown says: You break my heart Christy Brown. Sometimes I think you are me heart!
Maggie McCabe says: You've been living with a dead boy for 18 years. It's crippling Tadgh.
Mrs. Brown says: If I could give you my legs, I'd gladly take yours.
Mrs. Brown says: A broken body is nothing to a broken heart.
Mrs. Brown says: Don't forget, Christy, if we can't understand you, God can.
Mrs. Brown says: I'll be sticking to you like sticking plaster forever, Christy.