Sinéad Cusack

Sinéad Cusack
Date of Birth: 18 Feb 1948
Country: Ireland
Total Credits at Criticker: 30 (Actor)
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I Capture the Castle
A classic English story told in a fresh, vivacious style by the teenage heroine of the piece. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
V for Vendetta
Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V for Vendetta tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man known only as "V." Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, V ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. [RELEASED IN 2005]
Stealing Beauty
After her mother commits suicide, nineteen year old Lucy Harmon travels to Italy to have her picture painted. However, she has other reasons for wanting to go. She wants to renew her acquaintance with Nicolo Donati, a young boy with whom she fell in love on her last visit four years ago. She also is trying tosolve the riddle left in a diary written by her dead mother, Sara. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (imdb)
The Cement Garden
After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness... (imdb)
Eastern Promises
The mysterious and charismatic Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Headed by Semyon--whose courtly charm as the welcoming proprietor of the plush Trans-Siberian restaurant impeccably masks a cold, brutal core--the family is tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill, who is more tightly bound to Nikolai than to his own father. (Focus Features)
Rocket Gibraltar
A man's family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children, he and his children don't exactly connect. However, he connects with his grandchildren. And he tells them what he wants for his birthday and they do what they can to give it to him. (imdb)
Hoffman
A businessman blackmails his attractive young secretary into spending a weekend with him. Though he's a creep throughout, he gradually emerges as a sympathetic character. (imdb)
Alfred the Great
While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred (David Hemmings) is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows to take up arms against the invaders, leading the English Christians to fight for their country. Alfred soundly defeats the Danes and becomes a hero. But now, although Alfred still longs for the priesthood, he is torn between his passion for God and his lust for blood. (imdb)
The Tiger\
After a chance encounter, a Dubliner (Gleeson) is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself. (imdb)
Waterland
Tom Crick, a high school history teacher, is having trouble connecting - with his class, with his wife. He ventures into telling his class stories about his young adulthood in the Fens district in England. The emotional wounds from his younger life wash over him in present day, affecting his work and his relationships with his students and his wife. (imdb)
North & South
North & South (2004) - TV Mini-Series
The story of Margaret Hale, a young woman from southern England who has to move to the North after her father decides to leave the clergy. The family struggles to adjust itself to the industrial town's customs, especially after meeting the Thorntons, a proud family of cotton mill owners who seem to despise their social inferiors. The story explores the issues of class and gender, as Margaret's sympathy for the town mill workers conflicts with her growing attraction to John Thornton. (Wikipedia)
Uncovered
While restoring an old painting showing a woman and two men playing chess, Julia discovers the text "Who killed the knight" underneath the paint... (imdb)
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
The priceless Blue Water sapphire is coveted by the heirs of Sir Hector Geste - his new wife, Flavia; his daughter, Isabel; and his adopted twin sons, heroic Beau and pathetic Digby. When Sir Hector takes to his deathbed (where he remains for the duration of the film), Beau absconds with the stone, to keep it from his stepmother. Flavia pursues him to North Africa, dispensing sexual favors to promote her schemes. (imdb)
Cracks
In an austere and cloistered girls boarding school in 1930's England, the girls' unhealthy bond with their beloved teacher, Miss G, is threatened by the arrival of an exotic and beautiful foreign student - whose rejection of Miss G's attentions threatens the status quo and brings tragic consequences for them all. (Element Pictures)
Tam Lin
Based on an ancient Scottish folk song, an older woman uses witchcraft to keep her young jet-set friends. (imdb)
The Nephew
A little island off Ireland. A small town. An old conflict. Fresh wind. (imdb)
A Room with a View
On a trip to Italy, prim aristocrat Lucy Honeychurch (Elaine Cassidy) steals a kiss from a handsome commoner (Rafe Spall) but pays a heavy emotional price when she sees him again in stuffy Edwardian England in this spirited adaptation of E.M. Forster's classic novel. The talented cast includes Elizabeth McGovern as Lucy's mother, Timothy Spall as the socialist Mr. Emerson and Sinéad Cusack as the flamboyant Miss Lavish. (Netflix)
The Deep
The Deep (2010) - TV Mini-Series
Drama. The Orpheus' team of scientists are on a mission to find a renewable source of energy in the depths of the Arctic Ocean. The last team who went died in mysterious circumstances, so the Orpheus crew are already feeling nervous when a salvage inspector unexpectedly joins their mission. What does he know about the lost crew, and who is he working for?
Twelfth Night
Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino... (imdb)
Camelot
Camelot (2011) - TV Series
King Uther dies suddenly. Britain is facing chaos. The sorcerer Merlin appoints the not so known son and heir Arthur as the king who was raised as a commoner, but his half sister has other plans. Arthur faces tough times and will be tested beyond imagination. (imdb (skr))
The Sea
Mourning the recent death of his wife and wrestling with the demons of his past, a retired art historian (Ciaran Hinds; Munich) takes lodging at a seaside cottage under the eye of a watchful housekeeper (Charlotte Rampling), in this adaptation of revered Irish author John Banville's Man Booker Prize-winning novel. (tiff.net)
My Mother Frank
When a meddlesome mother enrolls in university with her son, old and new worlds collide. As the dust settles, Frank (Frances Regina Aileen Nano Kennedy) finds herself, David finds love and those around them find their lives changed forever. (imdb)
Summer Solstice
Sequel to Winter Solstice, following a group of close-knit friends and family who begin to realise their ambitions on a rural estate in Scotland. Oscar and Elfrida move in together, Lucinda has transformed her seaside castle into a hotel and Carrie discovers she is pregnant.
Stonehearst Asylum
A recent medical school grad who takes a position at a mental institution soon finds himself taken with one of his colleagues -- though he has no initial idea of a recent, horrifying staffing change. (imdb)
Revenge
A family plots to take its revenge on the man who raped and murdered their daughter. (imdb)
Queen and Country
John Boorman tells the tale of his Korean War service.
Marcella
Marcella (2016) - TV Series
Marcella Backland left the Metropolitan Police for the sake of her family, only to have her husband leave her. She returns to her job on the murder squad, investigating a case that seems disturbingly familiar to her. (imdb)
The Baby
The Baby (2022) - TV Series
Follows Natasha, who is furious that her closest friends are all having babies. But when she is unexpectedly landed with a baby of her own, her life dramatically implodes and twists her life into a surreal horror show.
Napoleon
The film is an original and personal look at Napoleon Bonaparte's origins and his swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine (imdb.com).
Oliver\
Oliver's Travels (1995) - TV Mini-Series
After his job is terminated, a humanities professor and puzzle addict joins forces with a woman PC to travel the country while solving a cold case murder. (imdb)