Sined Moira Cusack - theater, film and television actress. During her career, she received many prestigious awards. The actress was twice awarded the Tony Award in the nominations for Best Actress in a Play and Best Actress in a Play. For professional achievements in the field of theater, Sined Cusack five times became a laureate of the Laurence Olivier Prize awarded by the Theater Society of London.
Along with her husband Jeremy Irons, Cusack became one of the largest private financial donors to the British Labor Party in 1998. The article is dedicated to the biography of Sined Cusack.
Early years, family
Cusack was born in Dolki, a suburb of Dublin. Not only in adulthood, but also in childhood and in youth, Sined Cusack was surrounded by talented people who loved art and drew strength and inspiration from it. Her mother is Irish actress Mary Margaret "Maureen" Keely, her father is the famous Irish theater and film actor Cyril James Cusack, whose career lasted more than 70 years.
Shined has sisters, Sorcha and Nyam, who devoted their lives to acting, and two brothers - Paul and Porik. From her father's second marriage to Mary Rose Cunningham, she has stepsister Catherine Cusack.
Theatrical career
The actress performed her first roles on the stage of the Abbey Theater in Dublin. In 1975, she moved to London and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. Cusack's acting has been awarded with prestigious awards more than once.
In 1981, Shined Cusack won two nominations for Laurence Olivier Prizes. The first she received for the role of Celia in Shakespeare's comedy “How You Like It, ” and the second for her role in the play “The Tragedy of a Girl”. Two years later, she was awarded her third award for her role in the play The Taming of the Shrew.
The Broadway debut of the actress took place in 1984. As part of The Royal Shakespeare Company, Cusack played the role of Roxanne in the drama Cyrano de Bergerac and Beatrice in the play Much Ado About Nothing. Further cooperation with the Royal Shakespeare Company was marked by the leading roles:
- Serving in the "Venetian Merchant";
- Lady Macbeth in the play Macbeth of the same name;
- Cleopatra in the tragedy "Anthony and Cleopatra" and others.
In 1990, Cusack (in the role of Masha) joined on stage with her sisters Niam (playing the role of Irina) and Sorcha (playing the role of Olga), as well as her father Cyril Cusack (in the role of Ivan Chebutykin) for the film adaptation of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s drama “Three sisters. " The screen version of the famous work was enthusiastically received by the public and received positive reviews from critics.
One of the most famous works of the actress in the theater is the role of May O'Hara in the play of the Irish playwright Sebastian Barry “Our Lady from Sligo”, with which she performed on the best world theater stages. The play was enthusiastically received by the audience in the homeland of the actress in Ireland, on Broadway and in the famous Royal National Theater of Great Britain.
Filming
In 1970, Sined Cusack starred with Peter Sellers in the movie Hoffman. In 1992, the actress appeared on the screen with her husband Jeremy Irons in the film “By the Water”. In 1996, she starred in the drama directed by Bernardo Bertolucci "Theft of Beauty."
In 2006, Cusack received her first IFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Tiger Tail. In 2014, the actress won the IFTA Award for her role in the movie Sea.
The most famous TV shows and films by Sined Cusack:
- "David Copperfield" (1969);
- "The Last Remake of Handsome Gest" (1977);
- “Missile on Gibraltar” (1988);
- “At the Water” (1992);
- The Cement Garden (1993);
- “Escaping Beauty” (1996);
- “North and South” (mini-series, 2004);
- The Sea (2013);
- “37 days” (TV series, 2014);
- “Marcella” (TV series, from 2016).
Work on television
The work of Shined Cusack on television is large-scale and multifaceted. In 1971, a talented actress took part in the filming of an episode of the English television series Detectives-Extra-Class Lovers, starring famous actors Roger George Moore and Tony Curtis. Cusack played the role of wealthy heiress Jenny Lindley, suspecting that the person who impersonates her, considering her brother dead, is in fact an impostor.
In 1975, she appeared three times in the series Quiller as the character of Roses. The actress also starred in Oliver's Travels and Have Your Cake And Eat It. Together with British actor Alan Badel Sined, Cusack starred in the starring role of George du Maurier in The Trilby on the BBC. She also starred in the mini-series North and South as Hannah Thornton.
In 2006, an Irish actress starred in the British TV series Home Again. In 2011, she joined the cast of the Camelot television series, which lasted one season. Cusack also starred in the TV series Abyss (2010) and Marcella (2016 – present).
Publications
Along with other actresses, including Paola Dionisotti, Fiona Shaw, Juliet Stevenson and Harriet Walter, Sined Cusack contributed to the writing of Carol Rutter's book entitled Clamorous Voices: Women's Shakespeare's Today (1994). The book analyzes modern acting interpretations of female Shakespearean roles.
