Brenda Fricker

Brenda Fricker

February 17, 1945 · 81 years old

Brenda Fricker (born February 17, 1945) is an Irish actress, whose career has spanned six decades on stage and screen. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television roles. In 1990, she became the first Irish actress to win an Academy Award, earning the award for Best Supporting Actress for t…

Known For

24 titles
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

1992 · 2h 0m · Movie

Kevin is separated from his family again when he accidentally boards a flight to New York City during a Christmas trip to Miami. However he crosses paths with the same burglars, who now plan to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve.

6.9
2
A Time to Kill

A Time to Kill

1996 · 2h 29m · Movie

A young Mississippi lawyer defends a black man who killed the two white men that raped his preteen daughter.

7.5
3
My Left Foot

My Left Foot

1989 · 1h 43m · Movie

Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.

7.8
4
So I Married an Axe Murderer

So I Married an Axe Murderer

1993 · 1h 33m · Movie

A San Francisco poet who fears commitment suspects his girlfriend may have a knack for killing off her significant others.

6.5
5
Angels in the Outfield

Angels in the Outfield

1994 · 1h 42m · Movie

When a boy prays for a chance to have a family if the California Angels win the pennant, angels are assigned to make that possible.

6.2
6
Albert Nobbs

Albert Nobbs

2011 · 1h 53m · Movie

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th-century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most elegant hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks...

6.7
7
Veronica Guerin

Veronica Guerin

2003 · 1h 38m · Movie

An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.

6.8
8
The Miracle Club

The Miracle Club

2023 · 1h 30m · Movie

There's just one dream for the women of Ballygar to taste freedom: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes.

6.0
9
Rory O'Shea Was Here

Rory O'Shea Was Here

2004 · 1h 44m · Movie

When the kinetic Rory moves into his room in the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, his effect on the home is immediate. Most telling is his friendship with Michael, a young man with cerebral palsy and nearly unintellig...

7.7
10
The Field

The Field

1990 · 1h 47m · Movie

When a field (which has been farmed by the McCabe family for generations) goes up for auction, the patriarch of the McCabe family will stop at nothing to prevent a rich American from buying it.

7.3
11
Closing the Ring

Closing the Ring

2007 · 1h 58m · Movie

A young man searches for the proper owner of a ring that belonged to a U.S. World War II bomber gunner who crashed in Belfast, Northern Ireland on June 1, 1944.

6.5
12
Stone of Destiny

Stone of Destiny

2008 · 1h 36m · Movie

The story of Ian Hamilton, a dedicated nationalist who reignited Scottish national pride in the 1950s with his daring raid on the heart of England to bring the Stone of Scone back to Scotland.

6.7
13
Masterminds

Masterminds

1997 · 1h 46m · Movie

Trapped in a school in which a gang of criminals has seized control, a young troublemaker fights a cat and mouse battle from inside.

5.2
14
Trauma

Trauma

2004 · 1h 34m · Movie

Shortly after waking up from a coma and discovering that his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben befriends his beautiful young neighbor. But just as Ben begins to turn his life around, he is haunted by visions of his dead ...

4.7
15
Cloudburst

Cloudburst

2011 · 1h 33m · Movie

A lesbian couple escape from their nursing home and head up to Canada to get married. Along the way, they pick up a young, male hitchhiker.

7.2
16
Tara Road

Tara Road

2005 · 1h 37m · Movie

Two women -- one American, one Irish -- swap houses and alter the course of their lives.

6.0
17
A Man of No Importance

A Man of No Importance

1994 · 1h 39m · Movie

A friendly, poetry quoting bus conductor in 1963 Dublin wants to stage Oscar Wilde's play, Salome, with passengers on his bus.

6.7
18
Locked In

Locked In

2010 · 1h 25m · Movie

Josh leaves his advertising career at its peak, everyone wants either to be him or to have him. A car accident will leave his daughter in a strange coma and when everyone has given up she starts communicating with him, or is he go...

4.7
19
Cupid & Cate

Cupid & Cate

2000 · 1h 40m · Movie

Cate has a vintage clothing store. She attends her nasty dad's birthday party/family gathering where she meets Harry. She's dating Philip but he's dull - contrary to Harry.

6.0
20
Conspiracy of Silence

Conspiracy of Silence

2003 · 1h 30m · Movie

Conspiracy of Silence, meticulously researched and inspired by real events, looks at the vow of celibacy in the Catholic Church and asks is it now time to allow priests to marry. A can of worms is opened in the Irish Catholic Chur...

6.5
21
The Intended

The Intended

2002 · 1h 50m · Movie

A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and her ill-meaning family.

5.8
22
A Long Way from Home

A Long Way from Home

2013 · 1h 20m · Movie

A couple realise their dream of retiring to the South of France. Their life changes dramatically when they meet another, younger couple.

5.4
23
Journey

Journey

1995 · 1h 36m · Movie

Journey and his grandfather Marcus have to come to terms with each other's reactions to the loss when Journey's mother, Min, decides to leave Journey and his sister Cat to be looked after by their grandparents.

6.3
24
Durango

Durango

1999 · 1h 38m · Movie

In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer. Brenda Fricker appears as Keeslar's aunt and Mark Lambert is an army deserter, who signs up for ...

6.4