Brenda Fricker is op 81-jarige leeftijd overleden. Ze was de eerste Ierse actrice die een Oscar won, voor haar rol in My Left Foot. Daarin speelde ze de moeder van het personage dat werd vertolkt door Daniel Day-Lewis.

Ela foi a primeira irlandesa a triunfar em sua categoria

Dublin born and raised, Fricker was the first Irish woman to win an acting Oscar in 1990 for her role in Jim Sheridan’s My Left Foot

The history-making Dublin native also appeared in ‘The Field,’ ‘Home Alone 2: Lost in New York’ and ‘So I Married an Axe Murderer.’