Sinéad Cusack, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Sinéad Cusack

Irish stage, television and film actress

Date of Birth: 18-Feb-1948

Place of Birth: Dalkey, Leinster, Ireland

Profession: actor, stage actor, film actor

Nationality: Ireland

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Sinéad Moira Cusack ( shin-AYD; born 18 February 1948) is an Irish stage, television and film actress.
Her first acting roles were at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, before moving to London in 1975 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). Cusack married British actor Jeremy Irons in 1978; the couple have two sons: Samuel James (b.
1978), and Maximilian Paul (b.
1985).
Prior to her marriage she had given birth to another son, the Irish member of parliament Richard Boyd Barrett (b.
1967), whom she put up for adoption.
They have since been reunited, and Cusack has supported him in his political campaigns. Along with her husband, Cusack was named in a list of the biggest private financial donors to the British Labour Party in 1998.