{"id":554782,"date":"2026-07-17T18:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/554782\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T18:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:02:09","slug":"we-will-never-see-her-like-again-oscar-winner-brenda-fricker-dies-aged-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/554782\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We will never see her like again&#8217;: Oscar winner Brenda Fricker dies aged 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He said in a statement to the Press Association: \u201cWe will never see her like again and the world is lesser for the lack of her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI was honoured to know, love and work with her and she will always have a place in my heart and in the heart of so many film and TV fans the world over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Dublin-born Fricker won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Bridget Fagan Brown in Jim Sheridan&#8217;s\u00a0 My Left Foot,\u00a0which tells the story of an Irish man named Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy and could control only his left foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">She was also well known for her role in the 1992 follow-up to  Home Alone, where she played Pigeon Lady, a homeless woman in New York\u2019s Central Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fricker was also part of the original cast of BBC medical drama  Casualty, and featured alongside Cate Blanchett in  Veronica Guerin (2003).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Her later roles included the TV adaptation of Graham Norton\u2019s first novel  Holding, directed by Kathy Burke, and the Channel 5 drama series  The Catch.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Belfield said \u201cBrenda\u2019s versatility was renowned\u201d and that her most recent solo film performance in Tadhg O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s  The Swallow showed \u201cthe truth and majesty of Brenda as an actor\u201d and said it was \u201ca thing of beauty\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5160682_6_articleinlinemobile_880504_880504.jpg\" alt=\"Brenda Fricker and Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot\" title=\"Brenda Fricker and Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Brenda Fricker and Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/lifestyle\/artsandculture\/arid-41701538.html\">her memoir<\/a>,  She Died Young: A Life in Fragments, Fricker wrote candidly about a childhood haunted by physical abuse from her mother, neglect from her father, and traumatic events, including a car crash in her teens and serious illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fricker was also recently granted the Freedom of the City of Dublin, which Mr Belfield said she was \u201cparticularly thrilled and proud of\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fricker will be remembered as a talented actor and friend to many in the industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fricker appeared on the  Late Late Show back in 2022, where she spoke with then-host Ryan Tubridy about her fellow actor and friend  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/lifestyle\/artsandculture\/arid-41811035.html\">Jessie Buckley<\/a>&#8216;s first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in  The Lost Daughter.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;You predicted that,&#8221; Tubridy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;I know. Nobody went along with me. I wanted her to win,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;She will, she will,&#8221; Fricker continued, showing her belief that Buckley would one day hold the Academy Award, which she went on to do this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said in a statement to the Press Association: \u201cWe will never see her like again and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,6405,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-554782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-music-movies-reviews-munster","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}