Irish character actress Brenda Fricker was born in Dublin, and gained experience in Irish theatre and with the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Court Theatre Company in Great Britain. Brenda received great acclaim for her Oscar-winning supporting performance as the determined mother of a son afflicted with cerebral palsy inMy Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989). Venturing to Hollywood in the 1990s, she played a homeless woman befriended by kid-on-the-looseMacaulay Culkin in the sequelHômu arôn 2 (1992) and followed up with a more zany mother role in the little-seenSo I Married an Axe Murderer (1993). Having acted on English TV on the BBC seriesCasualty (1986), Fricker began conquering US TV with roles in theAmerican Playhouse (1980) presentation愛は国境を越えて (1991) and the miniseriesThe Sound and the Silence (1991). Fricker offered memorable support asAlbert Finney's exasperated sister inA Man of No Importance (1994) (1994) and appeared in support ofRobin Wright inPen Densham'sMoll Flanders (1996) and asMatthew McConaughey's secretary inJoel Schumacher'sA Time to Kill (1996) (both 1996).