Brenda Fricker
Nascimento : 1945-02-17, Dublin, Ireland
História
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
Albert Nobbs tenta sobreviver no final do século XIX na Irlanda, onde a independência não é incentivada entre as mulheres. Fazendo-se passar por homem para que possa trabalhar como mordomo no hotel mais elegante de Dublin, Albert conhece um belo pintor e procura fugir da mentira que está vivendo.
Dot
Um casal de lésbicas septagenárias, cheias de vida e amor para dar, escapa do asilo imposto pela neta de uma delas e parte para o Canadá, onde pretende legalizar a relação de 31 anos. Na estrada, elas dão carona a um pseudo-michê que está indo para a Nova Escócia para lidar com problemas familiares. Ao longo do caminho, eles compartilham problemas do passado e desenvolvem uma nova e improvável amizade.
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
A história de Ian Hamilton, um nacionalista dedicado que reacendeu o orgulho nacional escocês na década de 1950 com sua ousada incursão no coração da Inglaterra para trazer a Pedra da Coroação de volta à Escócia.
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
Um jovem irlandês acha uma antiga aliança e descobre que ela pertencera à noiva de um herói americano, cujo avião foi abatido na cidade de Belfast durante a Segunda Guerra. Emocionado com a história, decide encontrar sua verdadeira dona nos EUA.
Mona
Duas mulheres trocam de casa durante o verão e aprendem muito vivendo uma no mundo da outra.
Ria vive em Dublin com os seus dois filhos e o marido, mas certo dia ele decide sair de casa e ir morar com a namorada já grávida. Marilyn, de Nova Inglaterra, perdeu o filho e acabou por se separar do marido. Por acaso, elas conversam pelo telefone e decidem trocar de casa durante o verão. Elas vão aprender muito vivendo uma no mundo da outra...
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
Sinopse Rory (James McAvoy) é um jovem rebelde, bem humorado, que fala o que pensa, não liga para as convenções sociais, nem para nada, nem para ninguém. Seu oposto é Michael (Steven Robertson), que sempre levou uma vida completamente sem graça e enfadonha. O que estas duas pessoas tão diferentes poderiam ter em comum? A resposta é ao mesmo tempo simples e cruel: Rory é tetraplégico e Michael tem paralisia cerebral. Descontentes com as regras da vida , estes dois amigos inusitados planejam deixar a instituição onde estão internados com a ajuda de Siobhan (Romola Garai) para que eles finalmente atinjam seus objetivos: viver a vida em toda a sua intensidade. Mas quais as surpresas que o mundo fora dos portões da instituição irão revelar aos dois rapazes?
Petra
Ben (Colin Firth) é um homem atormentado. Quando acorda de um coma descobre que sua mulher, Elisa (Naomi Harris) morreu no acidente de carro que sofreram. Com o mundo caindo à sua volta, ele encontra forças para tentar reconstruir sua vida: volta para o analista da infância, procura amigos antigos e faz nova amizade com a bela Charlotte (Mena Suvari). Mas três acontecimentos fazem sua vida virar novamente de cabeça para baixo: o assassinato da famosa atriz Lauren, que trabalhava com Elisa; as visões de sua esposa, que começam a assombrá-lo; a descoberta de que, antes do acidente, seu casamento com Elisa tinha terminado. Agora ele precisa entender por que as coisas aconteceram dessa forma e se ele tem algo a ver com esse crime…
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
Veronica Guerin é uma repórter investigativa que publica uma matéria sobre os traficantes de drogas e chefes do crime mais poderosos de Dublin, cidade onde vive. A matéria traz grande repercussão e reconhecimento ao trabalho de Veronica, mas também faz com que ela e sua família passe a sofrer constantes ameaças.
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
Rafe Bentley, especialista em segurança, toma uma escola como refém para obter milhões em resgate, mas tem que enfrentar a esperteza de Ozzie, um aluno expulso gênio da informática, que é o único capaz de ludibriá-lo.
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
A cidade de Canton, no Mississipi, se torna um barril de pólvora quando um advogado destemido e sua assistente defendem um negro vingativo que matou o assassino branco de sua filha, incitando uma revolta de grupos racistas locais.
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
Roger é um filho adotivo cujo pai irresponsável promete se organizar quando o time de beisebol favorito de Roger, o California Angels, ganhar a flâmula. O problema é que os Anjos estão em último lugar, então Roger pede ajuda para transformar a equipe. Com certeza, suas orações são respondidas na forma de anjo Al.
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
Um poeta solitário acredita que tirou a sorte grande ao conhecer Harriet, uma jovem atraente e esperta que é dona de um açougue. Eles se apaixonam e se casam, mas o poeta descobre que sua mulher esconde um passado obscuro e mortal.
Eliza
True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.
Pigeon Lady
Kevin McCallister está em Nova Iorque com dinheiro suficiente para tornar a Grande Maçã no seu recreio! Mas Kevin não estará sozinho por muito tempo. Os infames Bandidos Molhados, Harry e Marv, ainda a recuperar do último encontro com Kevin, também se dirigem para Nova Iorque e planeiam um enorme golpe de Natal. Kevin está pronto a recebê-los com um conjunto de armadilhas que os ladrões desastrados nunca esquecerão!
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
A família de McCabe há várias gerações trabalha em terras alheias nos campos irlandeses. Quando McCabe decide participar de um leilão público para comprar suas próprias terras, precisa enfrentar um poderoso milionário americano.
Bridget Fagan-Brown
Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis), o filho de uma humilde família irlandesa, nasce com uma paralisia cerebral que lhe tira todos os movimentos do corpo, com a exceção do pé esquerdo. Com apenas este movimento Christy consegue, no decorrer de sua vida, se tornar escritor e pintor.
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.