Oscar-winning actress Brenda Fricker dies at 81
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Irish actress Brenda Fricker, who won an Oscar for her role in 1989 film My Left Foot and had well-loved parts in Home Alone 2 and TV’s Casualty, has died at the age of 81
Fricker won the Oscar for best supporting actress in 1990 for playing Daniel Day-Lewis’s on-screen mother in My Left Foot
She played nurse Megan Roach in the BBC’s Casualty from 1986, making her final appearance in 2010; and was the Central Park pigeon lady in 1992’s Home Alone sequel
In a statement, her agent Phil Belfield said: “We will never see her like again and the <a href="https://todaytrendnews7.com/how-the-world-cup-made-an-nfl/” title=”How the World Cup made an 'NFL”>world is lesser for the lack of her.”
He added: “I was honoured to know, love and work with her and she will always have a place in my heart and in the heart of so many film and TV fans the world over.”
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Born in Dublin, Fricker began her acting career with parts and in TV and the theatre, before appearing in soap opera Coronation Street in 1977, and Licking Hitler, a Play For Today in 1978
She was in the cast of the first episode of long-running BBC medical drama Casualty in 1986, remaining a fixture until 1990 and returning regularly in the subsequent years
She made history in 1990 when she became the first Irish actress to win an Academy Award, beating Hollywood stars including Julia Roberts and Anjelica Huston
Another memorable role came two years later when was cast as the homeless bird lady befriended by Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin in Home Alone 2
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