Brenda Fricker (born 17th February 1945 in Dublin) appeared on Coronation Street in January 1977 as Staff Nurse Maloney, whose patient was Deirdre Langton in late pregnancy and childbirth.
Brenda initially worked as assistant to the art editor at the Irish Times newspaper with the hope of becoming a reporter, but became an actress by chance at the age of nineteen.
Best known for her roles as nurse Megan Roach on BBC hospital drama Casualty, in the 1989 film My Left Foot, for which she won an Acadamy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and in the 1992 hit film Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, her other credits include roles in Helen: A Woman of Today, Z Cars, Quatermass, Angels, The Gathering Seed, Eh Brian! It's a Whopper, To Have and to Hold, Brides of Christ, Seekers, A Woman of Independent Means, Relative Strangers, I Was a Rat, No Tears, Forgive Me, Holding and The Catch.
On stage, she appeared in productions of The Irish Play, Television Times and The Accrington Pals for the Royal Shakespeare Company, along with The Plough and the Stars, Lavender Blue and Lost Worlds for the National Theatre. Other works include A Pagan Place, Juno and the Paycock, Oh! What a Lovely War, Summer, Flesh and Blood and Typhoid Mary.
