Brenda Fricker Discussion

Brenda Fricker: Brenda Fricker. Actress: My Left Foot. Irish character actress Brenda Fricker was born in Dublin, and gained experience in Irish theatre and with the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Court Theatre Company in Great Britain. Brenda 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...

Known For: My Left Foot (Mrs. Brown), A Time to Kill (Ethel Twitty), So I Married an Axe Murderer (May MacKenzie), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Pigeon Lady)