Dublin actor’s career spanned more than six decades across stage, television and filmBrenda Fricker appeared in more than 30 film and TV roles. Photograph: Ted Dayton/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images Award-winning actor Brenda Fricker has died at the age of 81. Fricker was the first Irish woman to win an acting Oscar when she took the best supporting actress prize for Jim Sheridan’s My Left Foot in 1990.The Dublin actor’s career spanned more than six decades across stage, television and film. She is one of Ireland’s most celebrated actors.Brenda Fricker was born and raised in Dublin Brenda Fricker on her first day of school Brenda Fricker with Richard Harris during filming of The Field Derek Thompson and Brenda Fricker in a scene from episode Jump Start of the BBC's Casualty, 1986. Photograph: Don Smith/Radio Times/Getty Brenda Fricker and her husband, Barry Davis, in Hyde Park Michael Gambon and Brenda Fricker in scenes from the film A Man Of No Importance, 1994. Photograph: Sony Pictures Classics/Getty Images Brenda Fricker pictures in 1996. Photograph: Keith Beaty/Toronto Star via Getty Images Brenda Fricker attends the 62nd Annual Academy Awards in 1990. Photograph: Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Joe Pesci and Brenda Fricker at the Oscars in 1991. Photograph: Ralph Dominguez/MediaPunch via Getty Images Irish actors Sinéad Cusack and Brenda Fricker. Photograph: Collins Brenda Fricker with Michael Fassbender at the Ifta Awards at the Convention Centre in Dublin. Photograph: Arthur Carron Brenda Fricker in The Swallow IN THIS SECTION