Brenda Fricker won an Academy Award for 1989's "My Left Foot," played the Pigeon Lady in "Home Alone 2" and appeared in "A Time to Kill" and "So I Married an Axe Murderer."

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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.’