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, 'Home Alone 2' Star, First Irish Actress to Win Oscar for ‘My Left Foot,’ Dies at 81

Oscar winner Brenda Fricker, ‘Home Alone 2’ pigeon lady, dies at 81

Brenda Fricker, Oscar-winning star known for ‘My Left Foot’ and ‘Home Alone 2,’ dies at 81

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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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