Brenda Fricker

Brenda Fricker (born 17th February, 1945) is an Irish actress who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1999 for her role in My Left Foot. To British television viewers, she is perhaps best known as nurse Megan Roach, a part she played for a number of years on BBC hospital drama Casualty. On Coronation Street, she played Staff Nurse Maloney in January 1977.

Brenda's other credits include Juliet Bravo and the hit 1992 movie Home Alone 2: Lost In New York.