The Irish actress’s relationship with the late English playwright has passed into the annals of recent theatre history – but it was finding the son she’d given up for adoption that spelled the end of the affair
‘She never talked about her private life in public’: Sinéad Cusack, pictured in 1970, moved to London to forge an acting career shortly after she gave up her first son for adoption. Photo: TPLP/Getty Images
The acclaimed English playwright, Tom Stoppard, was “magnetically attractive, thrice married, and linked to a number of beautiful women” according to his Daily Telegraph obituary, and one of them was Sinéad Cusack, scion of Ireland’s most famous theatrical families.
Stoppard and Cusack met in 1984, when her husband of six years, Jeremy Irons, was cast in one of his plays, The Real Thing.