Sinéad Moira Cusack (born February 18, 1948) is an Irish actress. Her first acting roles were at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, before moving to London in 1969 to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has won the Critics' Circle and Evening Standard Awards for her performance in Sebastian Barry's Our Lady of Sligo. Cusack has received two Tony Award nominations: once for Best Leading Actress in Much Ado About Nothing (1985), and again for Best Featured Actress in Rock 'n' Roll (2008). She has also received five Olivier Award nominations for As You Like (1981), The Maid's Tragedy (also 1981), The Taming of the Shrew (1983), Our Lady of Sligo (1998) and Rock 'n' Roll (2007). In 2020, she was listed at number 25 on The Irish Times' list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sinéad Cusack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026The Three Urns — Deirdre
• 2024And Mrs. — Lorraine
• 2024National Theatre Live: People, Places and Things — Doctor/Therapist/Mum
• 2024This Is Not An Attack On Your Parenting
• 2023Napoleon — Letizia Bonaparte
• North Sea Connection — Moira Kenny
• The Baby — Barbara
• MotherFatherSon — Maggie Barns
• 2018Beast — Penelope
• 2018National Theatre Live: King Lear — Kent
• Marcella — Sylvie Gibson
• 2015Queen & Country — Grace Rohan
• 37 Days — Margot Asquith
• 2014Stonehearst Asylum — Mrs. Pike
• 2013The Sea — Anna Morden
• 2012Wrath of the Titans — Clea
• Camelot — Sybil, Sibyl
• The Deep — Meg Sinclair
• 2009Cracks — Miss Nieven
• A Room with a View — Miss Lavish
• 2007A Room with a View — Miss Lavish
• 2007Eastern Promises — Helen
• Home Again
• 2006Mathilde — Wife of Col. De Petris
• 2006The Tiger's Tail — Oona O'Leary
• 2006V for Vendetta — Delia Surridge
• 2005Dad — Sandy James
• Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love
• 2005Summer Solstice — Elfrida
• 2005The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle — Mary Doyle
• North & South — Hannah Thornton
• 2003I Capture the Castle — Mrs Cotton
• 2003Winter Solstice — Elfrida Phibbs
• Winter Solstice — Elfrida Phibbs
• 2001Dream — Kathleen
• 2000My Mother Frank — Frances 'Frank' Kennedy
• 2000Passion of Mind — Jessie
• 1998The Nephew — Brenda O'Boyce
• 1997Food for Ravens — Jennie Lee
• Midsomer Murders — Stella Harris
• 1996Stealing Beauty — Diana Grayson
• Oliver's Travels — WPC Diane Priest
• 1995Uncovered — Menchu
• 1994Sparrow — Matilde
• 1993Bad Behavior — Ellie McAllister
• 1993The Cement Garden — Mother
• 1992God on the Rocks — Ellie Marsh
• 1992Tales from Hollywood — Nelly Mann
• 1992Waterland — Mary Crick
• Performance — Nelly Mann
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Mrs. Amy Folliat
• 1989The Hen House — Lily
• 1989Venus Peter — Miss Balsilbie
• 1988Rocket Gibraltar — Amanda 'Billi' Rockwell (as Sinead Cusack)
• ScreenPlay — Lily
• 1985Cyrano de Bergerac — Roxanne
• Screen Two — Mother
• Playing Shakespeare
• American Playhouse — Nelly Mann
• 1980Twelfth Night — Olivia
• The BBC Television Shakespeare — Olivia
• BBC2 Play of the Week — Monique
• Romance — Ermine
• Supernatural — Leonora
• 1977The Kitchen — Monique
• 1977The Last Remake of Beau Geste — Isabel Geste
• 1975Love's Labour's Lost — Rosaline
• Quiller — Roz
• Affairs of the Heart — Bessie Alden
• Notorious Woman — Marie Dorval
• 1974The Playboy of the Western World — Margaret Flaherty (Pegeen Mike)
• 1973Horowitz in Dublin — Liz
• 1973The Eyes Have It — Sally
• Thriller — Sally
• Scoop — Katchen
• The Protectors — Anne Ferris
• 1971Revenge — Rose
• Stage 2 — Minnie Powell
• The Persuaders! — Jenny Lindley
• 1970A Sound from the Sea — Catherine
• 1970Hoffman — Miss Smith
• Menace — Sylvia Terry
• 1970The Ballad of Tam Lin — Rose
• 1970The Dolly Scene — Anna
• 1970The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer — Yvonne (Uncredited)
• The Sinners — Polly Donegan
• 1969David Copperfield — Emily
• ITV Playhouse — Mary, Catherine
• BBC Play of the Month — Lady Rosaline, Trilby
• Armchair Theatre — Amora
• Dog & Bull
• The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes — Molly

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2025Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now — Self
• 2024Alec Guinness: A Class Act — self
• 2022Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman — Self
• 2020Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee