Brenda Fricker

Brenda Fricker

Nacimiento : 1945-02-17, Dublin, Ireland

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Brenda Fricker (born February 17, 1945 in Dublin) is an Irish actress of theatre, film and television. She had appeared in more than 30 films and television roles. In 1989, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for My Left Foot. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brenda Fricker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Brenda Fricker
Brenda Fricker
Brenda Fricker

Películas

Deadly
Bridie
Deadly tells the story of Boney, a working stiff who doesn’t care about his dead-end job. That is until, he has a run-in with a spirited old lady named Bridie. Academy award winner, Brenda Fricker and Love/Hate star Peter Coonan lend their voices to this bittersweet animated short about life, death and dancin'!
A Long Way From Home
Brenda
Joseph and Brenda have done what many only dream of and retired to the South of France to live out the rest of their days as if they were permanently on holiday. But retirement is not what Joseph imagined, and when he meets a young, attractive woman, Suzanne, everything he thought he knew about himself and his world is turned upside down.
Albert Nobbs
Polly
Irlanda, siglo XIX. Una mujer (Glenn Close) se ve atrapada en un triángulo amoroso inusual. Se disfraza de hombre para poder trabajar y sobrevivir, pero 30 años después se encuentra perdida en su propia prisión.
Cloudburst
Dot
When Dot's granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Canada so they can get married. They pick up a hitchhiker along the way.
Locked In
Joan
Josh leaves his advertising career at its peak, everyone wants either to be him or to have him. A car accident will leave his daughter in a strange coma and when everyone has given up she starts communicating with him, or is he going mad?
Stone of Destiny
Mrs. McQuarry
En 1951, cuatro estudiantes de Glasgow burlaron a las autoridades británicas y consiguieron llevar a Escocia la piedra de Scoen, un símbolo muy apreciado por los escoceses. Basada en hechos reales.
La grandeza de vivir
Heather Nightingale
Ellie (Hayley Atwell) es una joven que tiene que hacerse cargo de la residencia regentada por su hermana mayor durante las Navidades.
Cerrando el círculo
Eleanor
En 1943 un soldado de artillería moribundo tras un accidente con un bombardero americano, da un anillo a un lugareño para que se lo entregue a su novia en Estados Unidos. Cincuenta años después, un hombre encuentra el anillo, y busca a la chica (ahora ya una anciana) y el rastro del anillo.
Tara Road
Mona
Nueva Inglaterra. La vida de Marilyn Vine (Andie MacDowell) ha quedado devastada tras la muerte accidental de su hijo Dale durante la fiesta de su cumpleaños. A 3.000 millas de distancia, el matrimonio de Ria Lynch (Olivia Williams) se rompe, cuando su marido Danny (Iain Glen) le confiesa que la abandona por su amante embarazada. Una fortuita llamada telefónica une a estas dos mujeres que, movidas por una ineludible necesidad de cambio, acuerdan intercambiar sus casas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Omagh
Nuala O'Loan
Mientras toda Irlanda se preparaba en junio de 1998 para votar en referéndum el Acuerdo de Paz de Viernes Santo, un grupo de disidentes del IRA Provisional llevó a cabo un atentado con el fin de provocar la ruptura entre Londres y Dublín y el consiguiente abandono del proceso de paz. Este grupo, que se autodenominó IRA Auténtico, eligió para el atentado Omagh, una pequeña localidad en la que católicos y protestantes habían convivido pacíficamente a lo largo de los 30 años del conflicto de Irlanda del Norte.
Milk
Nan
Reluctant Jennifer must bathe her mischievous grandmother. Once close, they are now virtually strangers. The enforced intimacy of the situation results in an awkwardness that they can neither deny nor overcome until they begin to play together in the water.
Bailo por dentro
Eileen
Michael se ha resignado a una vida tranquila en la Residencia para Discapacitados Carrigmore, hasta que el díscolo Rory O´Shea entra en escena. Roy tiene un plan que les permitirá darle la vuelta al sistema y conseguir su propio piso, a pesar de que ambos están confinados a una silla de ruedas. Con la ayuda de la guapa aunque inexperta Siobhan (Romola Garai) emprenderán una experiencia inolvidable. La amistad e independencia recién conquistadas les ofrecen la vida en bandeja, aunque no sin consecuencias imprevistas
Trauma
Petra
Tras salir del coma, Ben (Colin Firth) averigua que su mujer murió durante el accidente de tráfico. Cuando sale del hospital, intenta rehacer su vida. Encuentra un nuevo trabajo y una nueva casa, pero su mente empieza a jugarle malas pasadas: ve a su mujer muerta por todas partes. Su vecina Charlotte (Mena Suvari) lo anima a consultar a un psiquiatra. Mientras tanto, los objetos de su apartamento cambian inexplicablemente de sitio o aparecen rotos. Además, la policía le hace una visita, pues lo consideran sospechoso de asesinato.
Heidi Fleiss: un negocio de lujo
Madame Alex
Esta es la historia de Heidi Fleiss, más conocida como "La madame de Hollywood", hija de un famoso doctor de Los Angeles y eventualmente prostituta de lujo. Atractiva e inteligente, Heidi estuvo ganado más de 300.000 dólares al mes acostándose con la clase alta de Hollywood, hasta que en 1993 acabó en la cárcel por evasión de impuestos.
Veronica Guerin
Bernie Guerin
Años 90. Veronica Guerin es una brillante periodista dublinesa que trabaja en el Sunday Independent. Después de acudir a un juicio por multas de aparcamiento impagadas, es asesinada por dos hombres enmascarados.
Conspiracy of Silence
Annie McLaughlin
When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken vows of celibacy. A thriller examining the internal conflicts in the modern Catholic church.
Watermelon
Teresa Ryan
A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.
Pete's Meteor
Lily
Un meteorito cae en el jardín de una casa donde viven tres niños huérfanos. Ellos piensan que la piedra la enviaron sus padres desde el cielo, pero las autoridades no creen lo mismo y envían el meteorito al laboratorio de la universidad local. En sus intentos por recuperar la roca, los niños conocerán a un científico que se volverá su mejor aliado. Drama de crecimiento y lazos familiares.
The Intended
Mrs. Jones
A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and her ill-meaning family.
Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story
Alexandra MacLean
The 1946/1947 murder trial of young and beautiful Evelyn Dick remains the most lurid murder case in Canadian history. After children find only the torso of her missing husband, John, Evelyn is arrested for his murder.
I Was a Rat
Joan Jones
A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is cold, wet and desperate for shelter, but Bob and Joan are perplexed by his claims that he was once a rat. Meanwhile, rumours are rife at the newspaper about the prince's new love: a girl who captivated everyone at the palace ball.
The War Bride
Betty
During World War II, a Cockney woman marries a Canadian soldier and adjusts to life in Alberta.
Cupid & Cate
Willie Hendley
Cate has a small boutique where she sells vintage clothes. She is dating some snob whose mother thinks that Cate is a second-class citizen because of her line of work. Harry meets Cate and they fall in love instantly. Francesca is a doctor who finds out that he has cancer, and tells Cate so that she would break up with Harry...
Durango
Aunt Maeve
In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer.
Resurrection
Clare's mother
After a woman is crippled in an auto accident which killed her husband, she suddenly develops the powers to heal. First she uses the power to heal herself and then turns to others. However, her powers are beyond healing psychic scars that exist between her and her mother. Meanwhile, her best friend and her doctor struggle to understand her newfound abilities.
The American
Mrs. Bread
After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to France is search of cultural treasures. He won't get past the Paris nightlife. After an affair with a haughty painter, he falls in love with the daughter of the late marquis de Bellegarde. She was married off and traumatized by her abusive late husband for the family's sake. Her elder brother supports their ruthless mother, but junior Valentin is besotted with the artist and strikes a partnership with Christopher.
Painted Angels
Annie Ryan
The story centers on the life of a bordello in a midwestern prairie town in the 1870s. The whorehouse is run by pragmatic madam Annie Ryan and the film follows the life of several of her girls.
Resurrection Man
Dorcas Kelly
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into madness.
Mentes maestras
Principal Claire Maloney
Ozzie es un chico de 16 años que acaba de ser expulsado de la escuela. Dispuesto a llevar a cabo su venganza se cuela en el colegio y descubre que alguién ha tomado a sus compañeros como rehenes.
Swann
Rose Hindmarch
Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure poet who was brutally murdered in a small town in rural Ontario.
Tiempo de matar
Ethel Twitty
En una tranquila localidad sureña de Mississippi dos jóvenes borrachos violan salvajemente a una niña negra de diez años. La mayoría blanca de la ciudad se muestra horrorizada ante tan atroz crimen. Carl Lee, el padre de la niña, armado con un rifle de asalto, decide tomarse la justicia por su mano y mata a los violadores de su hija. Mientras la tensión va creciendo y reaparecen en las calles las cruces ardiendo del Ku Klux Klan, Jake Brigance, un joven abogado blanco, hará todo lo posible por salvar la vida de Carl Lee y proteger la suya.
Moll Flanders, el coraje de una mujer
madame Mazzawatty
Nacida en la miseria del Londres de principios del siglo XVIII, Moll Flanders aprende pronto las lecciones de una vida de desgracias y crueldades. Moll Flanders es hija de una mujer cuyo ahorcamiento se retrasó el tiempo necesario para que ella nazca. Se educa con unas monjas que no pueden dominar su espíritu independiente, un espíritu que no posee el intolerante sistema de clases de la llamada ilustración. Moll se aferra con firmeza a la idea de que un día conocerá la felicidad pero, hasta que ese momento llegue, no duda en robar y prostituirse para sobrevivir, siempre soñando con una vida mejor. Un día su suerte cambia cuando un artista la contrata como modelo y se enamora de ella. (FILMAFFINITY)
Journey
Lottie
Deserted by their mother, a young boy and his sister discover the true meaning of family while living with their grandfather.
A Woman of Independent Means
Mother Steed
Bess Steed marries her childhood sweetheart in the early part of the 20th century and begins a life in the high society of Dallas, Texas. As time goes by, things do not work out as she expects. Her husband dies of influenza, and she finds that she must pick up and carry along with her life. She proves to be a strong, committed, and loving individual who attracts new loves into her life and finds that she can take good care of the old ones. Despite further tragedy in losing her oldest son, and a second marriage that is not all that she expects it to be she continues to survive as independently as she has discovered the courage to do so.
Un hombre sin importancia
Lily Byrne
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
Angeles
Maggie Nelson
Roger es un niño huérfano que ve ángeles en los partidos de béisbol de su equipo preferido. Los ángeles ayudan al equipo de Roger a ganar partidos y al niño a encontrar familia.
Consejos mortales
Iris Greenwood
Jodie e Iris viven con su madre, una autoritaria y severa anciana que impide que sus hijas conozcan un hombre con el que casarse. Jodie está enamorada de un doctor local, un hombre mucho mayor que ella, pero la madre se opone totalmente. Beth entabla una relación con un stripper en Bristol, pero no ve futuro con su madre alrededor. Mientras ambas sueñan con deshacerse de su madre, Jodie conoce a H.R. Armstrong, un hombre conocido en el pueblo por asesinar a su mujer. Tras entablar conocimiento con él, a Jodie se le empiezan a aparecer los asesinos en serie más famosos de la historia, que no paran de darle consejos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Una novia sin igual
May Mackenzie
Comedia con toques de humor negro que muestra los cataclismos emocionales que algunas chicas son capaces de provocar. Un ingenuo y romántico Mike Myers comparte su suerte con varias y curiosas chicas.
The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story
Eliza
True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.
Solo en casa 2: Perdido en Nueva York
Pigeon Lady
En plenas fiestas navideñas, el pequeño Kevin y su familia están a punto de coger un avión para disfrutar de unas pequeñas vacaciones, pero Kevin se equivoca y embarca en un avión que lo lleva a Nueva York, donde vuelve a encontrarse solo y desprotegido.
Utz
Marta
Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the late Baron Utz, only to become embroiled in the wreckage of the dead man's unusual life history after he discovers that the collection is missing.
El prado
Maggie McCabe
Irlanda, 1930. Un campesino trata de defender, a toda costa, la parcela de tierra que su familia ha cultivado durante generaciones y cuya subasta pública es inminente. Ni siquiera su propio hijo parece decidido a defender su legado de sangre.
Mi pie izquierdo
Bridget Fagan-Brown
Christy Brown es un enfermo de parálisis cerebral, nacido en el seno de una numerosa y mísera familia irlandesa. Su madre es la única que lo ve como un chico con talento y sensibilidad. Con el tiempo, Christy se revela como un irascible pero talentoso escritor y pintor, que utiliza su pie izquierdo -la única parte de su cuerpo que tiene motricidad- como instrumento.
The Picnic
Ray's Mother
'I, Margie Starling, am perfectly, perfectly happy, right now!' ...and why not? An adoring young husband, a grown-up daughter who'll soon adjust to having a stepfather her own age, and now a birthday picnic by the river. Why shouldn't Margie be happy?
The Woman Who Married Clark Gable
Mary
Period drama. A woman living in Dublin in the late 1930's relieves her humdrum existence with fantasies that her newly-moustachioed husband is her screen idol, Clark Gable.
Exploits at West Poley
Aunt Draycott
Somerset 1850. Two boys exploring an underground cave, divert the course of a river and drastically change the lives of the people of two villages.
The Ballroom of Romance
Bridie
A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.
The Quatermass Conclusion
Alison Thorpe
Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “Planet People”, and gathering at ancient sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.
The Music Machine
Mrs. Pearson
At a famous London disco venue, a competition is announced to select two dancers to star in a new film.
Licking Hitler
Eileen Graham
1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But tensions between her and brilliant, working class writer Archie MacLean threaten to undermine her work.
Your Man from Six Counties
Mollie
When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west Ireland. But even here there are links to the past.