Brid Brennan
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| Born | 1955 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Brid Brennan (born 1955) is an Irish actress, best known for her theatre work. She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Theatre work [edit]
Brennan created the role of Agnes Mundy in Brian Friel's play Dancing at Lughnasa. She played the role in the original Dublin, West End and Broadway productions, winning a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She reprised her performance on screen in Noel Pearson's much acclaimed 1998 film version of the play starring Meryl Streep, for which Brennan won an Irish Film and Television Award.
In 1999, Brennan played Maisie Madigan in Noel Pearson's production of Juno and the Paycock at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin and starred as Sister Aloysius in the Abbey Theatre Dublin production of Doubt.
She has received two Olivier Award nominations: for Rutherford and Son at the National Theatre and for The Little Foxes at the Donmar Warehouse.
She has also played roles in productions of Dallas Streetman, Woman and Scarecrow, By the Bog of Cats, Pillars of the Community, Man Beast and Virtue, Macbeth, La Lupa, Bliss, Bone Bailegangaire, A Kind of Alaska, Intemperance, Smelling a Rat, The Playboy of the Western World and Holy Days.
For RTÉ Radio 1, Brennan played the role of Lucia Joyce in Thomas Kilroy's In the Garden of the Asylum.
Most recently, she played Madge in Noel Pearson's revival of Philadelphia, Here I Come! at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin.
Brennan also featured as a guest star in the British TV series Cracker as a prostitute-hating killer in the episode Brotherly Love. Coincidentally, she co-starred in this particular episode with fellow Irish actor Lorcan Cranitch (DS Jimmy Beck), with whom she would later co-star in Dancing at Lughnasa.
Film and television [edit]
- Doctor Who
- Trial & Retribution
- Sunday
- Any Time Now
- Tell Tale Hearts
- The Ballroom of Romance
- Trojan Eddie
- Words Upon the Window Pane
- Hidden City
- Ursula and Glenys
- Anne Devlin (1984)[1]
- Maeve
- Four Days in July
- Topsy Turvy
- Felicia's Journey
- Cracker as Maggie Harvey (British TV series)
- Shadow Dancer
- Lorna
- A Coming to Terms for Billy
- A Matter of Choice for Billy
- Too Late to Talk to Billy
References [edit]
- ^ Anne Devlin at IMDb
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