Brenda Fricker
출생 : 1945-02-17, Dublin, Ireland
약력
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.
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'!
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.
Polly
최고의 종업원들과 최상의 서비스를 자랑하는 모리슨 호텔, 그 중에서도 가장 인정받는 웨이터 앨버트놉스(글렌 클로즈)는 묵묵히 자신이 맡은 일에 최선을 다하며 살아가는 중년이다. 하지만 놉스에게는 누구에게도 들켜선 안 될 비밀이 있었으니, 바로 남장여자라는 사실! 아무에게도 걸리지 않을 것 같았던 그녀의 비밀스러운 생활은 어느 날 한방을 쓰게 된 페인터 하버트 페이지에게 들키며 끝나는 듯하지만 그는 놉스의 비밀을 지켜주기로 약속한다. 그 이유는 다름 아닌 페이지 자신 역시 남장여자였던 것. 가정까지 꾸리고 남성의 일을 하며 살아가는 페이지를 보며 놉스는 자신도 그렇게 살 수 있을 것이라는 평범하지만 아주 특별한 꿈을 꾸게 되는데…
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.
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?
Mrs. McQuarry
Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Scottish undergraduates, whose action rekindled Scottish nationalistic pride.
Heather Nightingale
The story of Ellie, a young woman left in charge of the residential home run by her older sister, over the Christmas period. Whilst most of the residents have left to spend the festive period with their families, four residents, known as 'the hardcore' remain. Their behavior is so terrible that the home faces closure as potential new residents are put off by their appalling antics.
Eleanor
2차 대전 중 한 비행기가 벨페스트 시 부근에 추락한다. 비행사는 죽기 전 다른 사람에게 반지를 여자 친구에게 전해달라고 부탁한다. 반세가 지난 후, 그 동네의 한 젊은이가 이 반지를 발견하는데..
Mona
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
Nuala O'Loan
The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.
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.
Eileen
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
Petra
혼수상태에서 깨어난 벤은 교통사고로 아내가 사망한 것을 확인하고 그의 인생도 끝난 것처럼 느낀다. 얼마후 퇴원을 하고 집으로 돌아와 이웃에 사는 아름다운 샬롯을 만나면서 생의 전환점을 맞는 듯 보였던 벤은 점점 현실에 대한 감각을 잃어가는데...
Madame Alex
The story of Heidi Fleiss, known as "The Hollywood Madam", who was the daughter of a prominent Los Angeles doctor and eventually became a prostitute for a well-known Los Angeles madam. She took over her boss' operation and soon was raking in $300,000 a month by hiring only the most beautiful and highest-class hookers and catering to wealthy Hollywood types, European and American corporate executives and Arab sheiks. Her operation was broken up by Los Angeles police in 1993, and she eventually went to prison for income-tax evasion.
Bernie Guerin
갱단의 마약밀매 사실을 폭로한 베로니카 게린, 그리고 여섯 발의 총성!아일랜드 더블린의 기자 베로니카 게린은 더블린 갱단의 마약밀매 등 조직범죄를 폭로하는 시리즈를 준비하던 중 정보원 존 트레이너를 통해 길리건이라는 인물이 더블린 갱단의 거물이라는 것을 알아낸다. 베로니카 게린은 저격수가 집 창문에 총을 난사하기도 하고, 집에 침입한 복면 강도로부터 총을 맞아 다리까지 다치게 되는 등 신변의 위협을 받지만, 자신의 뜻을 굽히지 않는다. 게린의 집요한 취재로 위협을 느낀 길리건은 존 트레이너를 시켜 베로니카 게린에게 더블린 갱단의 핵심인물만큼은 거론하지 말아달라는 요청을 하지만, 게린은 딱 잘라 거절한다. 결국 1996년 6월 한 낮, 더블린 근교에서 차를 몰고 가던 그녀는 신호대기 중 모터사이클을 탄 킬러가 쏜 6발의 총알을 맞고 피살되는데…
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.
Teresa Ryan
A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.
Lily
Lives change for members of an Irish family after a meteor crashes in their backyard. The kids believe that it was sent down to them by their dead parents, but the government hauls the rock away and sends it to the local university.
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.
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.
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.
Betty
During World War II, a Cockney woman marries a Canadian soldier and adjusts to life in Alberta.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Principal Claire Maloney
A rebellious teen uses his talent for pranks to outwit the security consultant who has taken the students at his prestigious private school hostage.
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.
Ethel Twitty
미국 남부 미시시피주의 작은 도시. 백주 대낮에 흑인 소녀가 술과 마약에 찌든 백인 건달 두 명에게 무참히 살해당한다. 재판이 시작되지만 백인 우월주의가 판치는 곳에서 공정한 판결을 기대하기란 어렵다. 법정 청소부로 일하던 소녀의 아버지 칼(새뮤얼 L. 잭슨)은 판결을 인정하지 않고 법정에 출두하는 범인들을 향해 기관총을 난사한다. 신참내기 정의파 변호사 제이크(매튜 매커너헤이)와 법학도 엘렌(산드라 블록)이 살인 혐의로 재판을 받게 된 칼의 변호를 맡는다. 이들은 KKK와 백인들의 테러, 노련하지만 피도 눈물도 없는 버클리 검사(케빈 스페이시)에 맞서 싸우는데...
madame Mazzawatty
The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest lead Moll to rebel as a teenager, escaping to the dangerous streets of London. Further misfortunes drive her to accept a job as a prostitute from the conniving Mrs. Allworthy. It is there that Moll first meets Hibble, who is working as Allworthy's servant but takes a special interest in the young woman's well-being. With his help, she retains hope for the future, ultimately falling in love with an unconventional artist who promises the possibility of romantic happiness.
Lottie
Deserted by their mother, a young boy and his sister discover the true meaning of family while living with their grandfather.
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.
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.
Maggie Nelson
일찌기 엄마를 잃은데다 아버지가 여기저기 떠돌기 때문에 고아나 다름없는 소년 로져(Roger : 조셉 고든-레빗 분)는 캘리포니아의 야구팀 '엔젤스'가 우승하면 가족과 함께 살 수 있다는 아버지의 말을 믿는다. 한편 로져의 유일한 희망인 엔젤스팀은 우승은 커녕 해체될 위기에 처해있다. 이 팀의 감독 죠지 녹스(George Knox : 대니 글로버 분)는 우리팀 섬수들은 실력도 근성도 없는데다 재수까지 없다고 투덜거린다. 이러한 절망적인 상황 속에서 로져는 앤젤스 팀이 이기게 해 달라고 하늘에게 빌기 시작한다. 버림받은 소년의 기도가 너무나 간절해서인지 아니면 명색이 엔젤스팀이 계속 지니깐 천사들의 체면이 상해서인지 알(Al The Angel : 크리스토퍼 로이드 분)이라는 이름의 천사를 선두로 천사들은 엔젤스가 시합을 벌이는 야구장에서 재미있는 기적을 일으키기 시작한다. 그리고 천사들의 도움을 받은 엔젤스 선수들은 자신들에게 필요한 것은 목표를 향한 신념과 용기라는 것을 깨닫기 시작하는데...
Iris Greenwood
Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming old unmarried, maids. Jodie has feelings for the local doctor, a man much older than her, for which her mother strongly disapproves. Beth finds a relationship with a male stripper in Bristol, but sees nothing in the future with Mother around. While both girls would like to be rid of Mother, nothing happens until Jodie sees images of H. R. Armstrong, the man who put the town on the map by dispatching his un-loving wife
May Mackenzie
여태껏 많은 여자들과 사귀어 온 시인 찰리(마이크 마이어스)는 결혼하는 걸 끔찍하게 싫어한다. 그는 어느날 해리엇이(낸시 트래비스)란 여성을 만나고 그녀를 통해 자신의 결혼 공포증을 극복하기 위해 노력한다. 그즈음 일명 액스 와이프(Ax-Wife)라 불리는 살인마가 도끼로 연쇄살인을 저지르고 다닌다는 사건에 대해 읽은 찰리는 해리엇이 액스 와이프일거라고 의심한다. 액스 와이프를 쫓는 형사 토니(안소니 라파글리아) 역시 해리엇을 용의자로 지목하지만 곧 범인이 검거된다. 이에 안심한 찰리는 해리엇과 결혼하지만 그들이 신혼여행을 간 사이 검거된 범인이 가짜였단 사실이 밝혀지는데...
Eliza
True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.
Pigeon Lady
시카고에 살고 있는 케빈의 가족은 크리스마스에 플로리다에 가기로 되어있다. 그러나 공항의 소란 속에, 홀로 뉴욕행 비행기에 오르게 되어 거대한 도시에 혼자 남게 된 케빈은 기지를 발휘하여 아버지 카드로 플로리자 호텔에 묶게되고, 의심스러워 하는 종업원들을 멋지게 따돌린다. 한편, 감옥을 탈출한 2인조 강도 마브와 해리는 뉴욕의 장난감 가게를 털어 한 몫 잡을 꿈에 부풀어 있는데...
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.
Maggie McCabe
아일랜드 한 가난한 농부의 장남이었던 불 매케이브("Bull" McCabe: 리차드 해리스 분)는 아들, 타이그 매케이브(Tadgh McCabe: 숀 빈 분)와 함께 불모지였던 한 과부의 땅을 10년 동안 열심히 가꿔 기름지게 만들어놓는다. 아들의 장래를 위해 불은 그 땅을 사기 원하지만 10년 동안 타이그와 매케이브의 친구, 버드(The 'Bird' O'Donnell: 존 허트 분)로 인해 밤마다 두려움에 떨었던 과부는 그 땅을 공매에 붙인다. 불은 사전에 50파운드의 경매가로 그 땅을 사려하지만 이미 양키(Peter, "The Yank": 톰 베린저 분) 편이 돼버린 신부(Father Doran: 숀 맥긴니 분)와 플래니건(Flanagan: 존 코우리 분)이라는 경매장이의 방해로 실패한다. 이에 격분한 불은 아들과 양키를 싸움 붙여 양키를 손보려 하지만 지나치게 흥분한 불은 본의 아니게 양키를 죽이게 되고 타이그는 충격을 받게 된다. 더군다나, 불과 아내가 죽은 형 쉐이미에 대해 얘기하는 것을 엿듣게 되고 그 길로 평소에 관심있던 집시 처녀 케이씨를 찾아가 둘은 같이 마을을 떠나려 한다. 불은 어떻게 해서든 아들을 말려 보려고 하지만 타이그가 말을 듣지 않자 반 정신이 나간 상태로 소 떼를 몰고 절벽으로 가는데...
Bridget Fagan-Brown
크리스티 브라운은 뇌성마비로 전신이 비틀리고 마비된 채 왼발만을 움직일 수 있는 소년이었으나, 어머니의 끝없는 희생과 사랑으로 남달리 깨끗하고 맑은 영혼을 갖고 성장하면서, 그림에 소질을 보인다. 독창적 인 작품으로 두각을 나타내던 19살 때 뇌성마비 전문의 아일린 콜을 만나 불분명하던 발음도 상당히 교정되고, 의사 소통을 할 수 있게 되면서 크리스티는 미모의 여의사 아일린을 사랑하게 된다. 그러나 아일린은 약혼자가 있고, 실연의 고통에 한때 자살까지 기도하던 크리스티는 강인한 정신력과 오기로 절망을 딛고 일어서, 자신의 소년 시절과 열명이 넘은 형제 자매들, 청년기의 슬픈 사랑을 진솔하게 서술한 자서전을 내놓아 작가로서도 성공한다. 아일린 콜의 부탁으로 뇌성마비 장애자 후원모임에 나간 크리스티는 여기서 간호사 메리를 만나, 신체의 장애를 극복한 집념으로 메리의 사랑을 얻기에 이른다.
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?
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.
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.
Bridie
A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.
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.
Mrs. Pearson
At a famous London disco venue, a competition is announced to select two dancers to star in a new film.
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.
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.