Sinéad Cusack

Biography

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sinéad Cusack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Midsomer Murders

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Tony Awards

BBC Play of the Month

BBC Play of the Month

Screen Two

The Persuaders!

ITV Playhouse

All Movies (59)

• The Three Urns2026 · as Deirdre
• Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now2025 · as Self
• And Mrs.2024 · as Lorraine
• Alec Guinness: A Class Act2024 · as self
• This Is Not An Attack On Your Parenting2024
• National Theatre Live: People, Places and Things2024 · as Doctor/Thrapist/Mum
• Napoleon2023 · as Letizia Bonaparte
• Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman2022 · as Self
• Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy2020 · as Self
• National Theatre Live: King Lear2018 · as Kent
• Beast2018 · as Penelope
• Queen & Country2015 · as Grace Rohan
• Stonehearst Asylum2014 · as Mrs. Pike
• The Sea2013 · as Anna Morden
• Wrath of the Titans2012 · as Clea
• Cracks2009 · as Miss Nieven
• A Room with a View2007 · as Miss Lavish
• Eastern Promises2007 · as Helen
• The Tiger's Tail2006 · as Oona O'Leary
• V for Vendetta2006 · as Delia Surridge
• Mathilde2006 · as Wife of Col. De Petris
• Summer Solstice2005 · as Elfrida
• The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle2005 · as Mary Doyle
• Dad2005 · as Sandy James
• Winter Solstice2003 · as Elfrida Phibbs
• I Capture the Castle2003 · as Mrs Cotton
• Dream2001 · as Kathleen
• My Mother Frank2000 · as Frances 'Frank' Kennedy
• Passion of Mind2000 · as Jessie
• The Nephew1998 · as Brenda O'Boyce
• Food for Ravens1997 · as Jennie Lee
• Stealing Beauty1996 · as Diana Grayson
• Uncovered1995 · as Menchu
• Sparrow1994 · as Matilde
• Bad Behavior1993 · as Ellie McAllister
• The Cement Garden1993 · as Mother
• God on the Rocks1992 · as Ellie Marsh
• Tales from Hollywood1992 · as Nelly Mann
• Waterland1992 · as Mary Crick
• The Hen House1989 · as Lily
• Venus Peter1989 · as Miss Balsilbie
• Rocket Gibraltar1988 · as Amanda 'Billi' Rockwell (as Sinead Cusack)
• Cyrano de Bergerac1985 · as Roxanne
• Twelfth Night1980 · as Olivia
• The Kitchen1977 · as Monique
• The Last Remake of Beau Geste1977 · as Isabel Geste
• Love's Labour's Lost1975 · as Rosaline
• The Playboy of the Western World1974 · as Margaret Flaherty (Pegeen Mike)
• Horowitz in Dublin1973 · as Liz
• The Eyes Have It1973 · as Sally
• Revenge1971 · as Rose
• The Ballad of Tam Lin1970 · as Rose
• The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer1970 · as Yvonne (Uncredited)
• The Dolly Scene1970 · as Anna
• A Sound from the Sea1970 · as Catherine
• Hoffman1970 · as Miss Smith
• David Copperfield1969 · as Emily
• Dog & Bull—
• The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes— · as Molly

All TV Shows (39)

• North Sea Connection2022 · as Moira Kenny
• The Baby2022 · as Barbara
• MotherFatherSon2019 · as Maggie Barns
• Marcella2016 · as Sylvie Gibson
• 37 Days2014 · as Margot Asquith
• Camelot2011 · as Sybil
• Camelot2011 · as Sibyl
• The Deep2010 · as Meg Sinclair
• A Room with a View2008 · as Miss Lavish
• Home Again2006
• Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love2005
• North & South2004 · as Hannah Thornton
• Winter Solstice2003 · as Elfrida Phibbs
• Midsomer Murders1997 · as Stella Harris
• Oliver's Travels1995 · as WPC Diane Priest
• Performance1991 · as Nelly Mann
• Agatha Christie's Poirot1989 · as Mrs. Amy Folliat
• ScreenPlay1986 · as Lily
• Screen Two1985 · as Mother
• Playing Shakespeare1984
• The BBC Television Shakespeare1978 · as Olivia
• BBC2 Play of the Week1977 · as Monique
• Supernatural1977 · as Leonora
• Romance1977 · as Ermine
• Quiller1975 · as Roz
• Notorious Woman1974 · as Marie Dorval
• Affairs of the Heart1974 · as Bessie Alden
• Thriller1973 · as Sally
• Scoop1972 · as Katchen
• The Protectors1972 · as Anne Ferris
• The Persuaders!1971 · as Jenny Lindley
• Menace1970 · as Sylvia Terry
• The Sinners1970 · as Polly Donegan
• ITV Playhouse1967 · as Mary
• ITV Playhouse1967 · as Catherine
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Lady Rosaline
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Trilby
• Armchair Theatre1956 · as Amora
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Nominee