Brenda Fricker Dies
Oscar-winning Irish actress Brenda Fricker, known for My Left Foot and Home Alone 2, has died.
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Brenda Fricker, the Irish actor who became the first Irish woman to win an Academy Award, died Thursday night in Dublin after a period of ill health, her agent Phil Belfield said; she was 81. Fricker won best supporting actress in 1990 for playing Bridget Fagan Brown, mother of Christy Brown, opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in Jim Sheridan’s My Left Foot. She later reached wider audiences as the Pigeon Lady in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and played nurse Megan Roach on the BBC medical drama Casualty.
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