Sinead Moira Cusack is a theater, film and television actress. She has received many prestigious awards throughout her career. The actress won two Tony Awards for Best Lead Actress in a Play and Best Supporting Actress in a Play. For her professional achievements in the theatre, Sinead Cusack has won five Laurence Olivier Awards from the Theater Society of London.
Along with her husband Jeremy Irons, Cusack became one of the largest private financial donors to the British Labor Party in 1998. The article is devoted to the biography of Sinead Cusack.
Early years, family
Cusack was born in Dalkey, a suburb of Dublin. Not only in adulthood, but also in childhood and youth, Sinead Cusack was surrounded by talented people who loved art and drew strength and inspiration from it. Her mother is the Irish actress Mary Margaret "Maureen" Keely, her father is the famous Irish theater and film actor Cyril James Cusack, whose career spanned over 70 years.
Sinead has sisters, Sorcha and Niamh, who have devoted their lives to acting, and two brothers, Paul and Porik. From Sinead's father's second marriage to Mary Rose Cunningham, she has a half-sister, Katherine Cusack.
Theatrical career
The actress performed her first roles on the stage of the Abbey Theater in Dublin. In 1975 she moved to London and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. Cusack's acting skills have been repeatedly recognized with prestigious awards.
In 1981, Sinead Cusack won two nominations for the Laurence Olivier Awards. She received the first for her role as Celia in Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It, and the second for her role in the play The Girl's Tragedy. Two years later, she received her third award for her performance in The Taming of the Shrew.
The actress made her Broadway debut in 1984. As part of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Cusack played the role of Roxanne in the drama Cyrano de Bergerac and Beatrice in the play Much Ado About Nothing. Further cooperation with the Royal Shakespeare Company was marked by the performance of leading roles:
- Portion at the Merchant of Venice;
- Lady Macbeth in the play "Macbeth" of the same name;
- Cleopatra in the tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra" and others.
In 1990, Cusack (as Masha) joined her sisters Niam (playing Irina) and Sorcha (playing Olga) and her father Cyril Cusack (playing Ivan Chebutykin) on stage for a drama adaptation Anton Pavlovich Chekhov "Three Sisters" Screen adaptationfamous work was enthusiastically received by the public and received positive reviews from critics.
One of the most famous works of the actress in the theater is the role of May O'Hara in the play by the Irish playwright Sebastian Barry "Our Lady of Sligo", with which she performed on the world's best theater stages. The play was enthusiastically received by the public in the homeland of the actress in Ireland, on Broadway and at the famous Royal National Theater of Great Britain.
Film shooting
In 1970, Sinead Cusack co-starred with Peter Sellers in Hoffman. In 1992, the actress appeared on the screen along with her husband Jeremy Irons in the film By the Water. In 1996, she starred in the drama Theft of Beauty directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.
In 2006, Cusack received her first IFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Tiger Tail. In 2014, the actress won an IFTA award for her performance in The Sea.
The most famous TV series and films of Sinead Cusack:
- "David Copperfield" (1969);
- "The Last Remake of Handsome Gesture" (1977);
- Rocket to Gibr altar (1988);
- "By the Water" (1992);
- "The Cement Garden" (1993);
- "Slipping Beauty" (1996);
- "North and South" (mini-series, 2004);
- "Sea" (2013);
- "37 days" (TV series, 2014);
- "Marcella" (TV series, since 2016).
Television work
Sinead Cusack's work ontelevision is large and multifaceted. In 1971, the talented actress took part in the filming of an episode of the English television series Extra-Class Amateur Detectives, in which famous actors Roger George Moore and Tony Curtis played the main roles. Cusack played the role of we althy heiress Jenny Lindley, who suspects that the man who claims to be her dead brother is actually an impostor.
In 1975, she appeared three times on the TV series Quiller as the character Rose. The actress also starred in the series Oliver's Travels and Have Your Cake And Eat It. Along with British actor Alan Badel Sinead, Cusack starred in George du Maurier's Trilby on the BBC. She also starred in the mini-series North and South as Hannah Thornton.
In 2006, the Irish actress starred in the British TV series Home Again. In 2011, she joined the cast of the television series Camelot, which ran for one season. Cusack has also had roles in The Abyss (2010) and Marcella (2016-present).
Publications
Along with other actresses including Paola Dionisotti, Fiona Shaw, Juliet Stevenson and Harriet W alter, Sinead Cusack contributed to Carol Rutter's book Clamorous Voices: Women's Shakespeare's Today (1994). The book analyzes contemporary acting interpretations of female Shakespearean roles.
Private life
In 1978, Cusack married popular British Oscar-winning actor JeremyIrons. In the family of Sinead Cusack and Jeremy Irons, two children were born - Samuel (1978) and Maximilian (1985). The sons followed in the footsteps of their famous parents and became actors. In the acting field, Max Irons managed to achieve success. He is known to the general public for his role as Henry in Little Red Riding Hood (2011) and Jared Howe in The Guest (2013).
Before her marriage to Jeremy Irons, Cusack gave birth to a son in 1967 and gave him up for adoption. A few decades after the incident, the secret of the actress was revealed and made public in the press. In 2007, Sunday Independent correspondent Daniel McConnell wrote an article stating that Sinead Cusack was the biological mother of Irish politician Richard Boyd Barrett. After the publication of this news, mother and son were reunited. The actress has supported Richard Boyd in his political career.
