Sinead Cusack
Actor
- Twelfth Night (1978)
- Dir. John Gorrie
Feat. Alec McCowen, Robert Hardy, Felicity Kendal…
- Part of the BBC's excellent series of Shakespeare productions, filmed in a 'theatrical' TV environment utilising the best of English acting talent.
- Waterland (1992)
- Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack, Lena Headey…
- Jeremy Irons plays a history teacher in America who recounts his own suppressed coming of age to his cynical students. Adapted from Graham Swift's…
- Bad Behaviour (1993)
- Dir. Les Blair
Feat. Stephen Rea, Sinead Cusack, Phil Daniels…
- Middle life and class are sliced from the Leigh/Loach mould, but with more improvisation and less cynicism. Stephen Rea plays a town planner at the…
- Oliver's Travels (TV Mini-series) (1995)
- Feat. Alan Bates, Sinead Cusack, Bill Paterson
- BBC oddity centered around Oliver (Bates), an ex–university lecturer with a passion for puzzles, who goes on a search to find legendary…
- My Mother Frank (2000)
- Dir. Mark Lamprell
Feat. Sinead Cusack, Sam Neill, Sacha Horler…
- Sober comedy with an 'it's never too late' theme, is nicely done despite some rather convenient plotting.
Mother and widow Sinead Cusack decides…
- North and South (TV Mini-series) (2004)
- Dir. Brian Percival
Feat. Daniela Denby-Ashe, Richard Armitage, Tim Pigott-Smith…
- Quality BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's epochal novel of the Victorian Industrial era, in which a country–raised woman from the south of…
- V for Vendetta (2005)
- Dir. James McTeigue
Feat. Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea…
- Set in the year 2020, this dystopian thriller adapts Alan Moore's graphic novel about a world where deadly viruses have wiped out most of America and…
- Tiger's Tail, The (2006)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall, Ciaran Hinds…
- John Boorman points his moral compass towards the ‘miracle’ Irish economy in this patchy yet worthwhile satirical thriller about an enterprising…
- Eastern Promises (2007)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel…
- A muscular, satisfying thriller set in the underworld of the Russian mafia in London, this reteams the director and star of A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE,…
- Room with a View, A (2007)
- Dir. Nicholas Renton
Feat. Elaine Cassidy, Rafe Spall, Timothy Spall…
- Sumptuous remake of the 1985 film, based on the E.M. Forster novel, of a daring young woman made to choose between two desirable suitors after moving…
- Cracks (2009)
- Dir. Jordan Scott
Feat. Eva Green, Juno Temple, Maria Valverde…
- Moody boarding–school set drama follows a clique of six girls whose dynamic is thrown off–kilter by the arrival of a new girl whose…
- Deep, The (TV Mini-series) (2010)
- Dir. Jim O’Hanlon, Colm McCarthy
Feat. Minnie Driver, James Nesbitt, Goran Visnjic…
- BBC adventure series following a research submarine beneath the Arctic that stumbles upon a terrifying secret with Earth–shattering…
- Stonehearst Asylum (Eliza Graves) (2014)
- Dir. Brad Anderson
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis…
- A recent medical school grad who takes a position at a mental institution soon finds himself taken with one of his colleagues –– though…
- Queen & Country (Queen and Country) (2014)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Callum Turner, Vanessa Kirby, David Thewlis…
- Long–awaited follow up to director John Boorman's comic memoir HOPE AND GLORY follows his alter–ego as he undergoes basic training in…