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Sinéad Cusack

Sinéad Cusack is an award winning actress, renowned for her extensive career both on stage and screen. She began her theatrical career at The Abbey Theatre, Dublin, before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Theatre includes: ‘Tree’ at The Young Vic, ‘King Lear’ at Duke of York’s Theatre, ‘Stitchers’ at Jermyn Street Theatre, ‘King Lear’ at Chichester Festival, ‘Splendour’ at Donmar Warehouse, ‘Our Few & Evil Days’ at Abbey Theatre (Winner Irish Times Theatre Award Best Actress), ‘Other Desert Cities’ at Old Vic Theatre, ‘Juno and the Paycock’ at National and Abbey Theatre, ‘Rock ’n’ Roll’ at Royal Court (Olivier Award & Tony Award Nominee for Best Actress in a Play), ‘The Birds’ at The Gate, ‘The Cherry Orchard’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’ at The Bridge Project. Sinéad has also played many leading roles for the RSC, including in ‘Antony and Cleopatra’, ‘Macbeth’, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ (Olivier Award Nominee Best Actress in a Revival), ‘The Merchant of Venice’, ‘As You Like It’ (Winner Clarence Derwent Award & Nominee Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role), ‘Measure for Measure’, ‘The Maid’s Tragedy’ (Olivier Award Nominee, Best Actress in a Revival), ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (Tony Award Nominee Best Actress) and ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’. Her performance in ‘Our Lady of Sligo’ at the National Theatre was nominated for an Olivier Award & on Broadway she won The Evening Standard & Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Actress, & an Olivier nomination.

Film includes: ‘Queen & Country’ (IFTA Award Nominee), ‘The Sea’ (Winner IFTA Award, Best Actress in a Supporting Role), ‘Eliza Graves’, ‘Wrath of the Titans’, ‘Eastern Promises’, ‘Cracks’, ‘V for Vendetta’, ‘Tiger’s Tail’ (IFTA Award Nominee for Best Actress), ‘Mathilde’, ‘I Capture the Castle’, ‘Bad Behaviour’, ‘Dream’, ‘My Mother Frank’, ‘Passion In Mind’, ‘Stealing Beauty’, ‘The Clement Garden’, ‘The Nephew’, ‘Waterland’ & ‘Venus Peter’.

Television includes: ‘North Sea Connection’, ‘The Baby’, ‘MotherFatherSon’, ‘Moving On’, ‘Call the Midwife’, ‘Marcella’, ‘Jekyll & Hyde’, ’37 Days’, ‘Poirot – Dead Man’s Folly’, ‘Midsomer Murders’, ‘Camelot’, ‘The Deep’, ‘A Room With A View’, ‘Home Again’, ‘The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Doyle’, ‘Dad’, ‘North & South’, ‘Have Your Cake and Eat It’, ‘Tales From Hollywood’.

Readings

W.H. Auden: Extract from 'The Sea And The Mirror' read by Sinèad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Second Coming' narrated by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stare's Nest by My Window' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'What Then?' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stolen Child' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stolen Child' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Leda and The Swan' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'A Drinking Song' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'For Anne Gregory' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Girl's Song' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Her Anxiety' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Crazy Jane and Jack The Journeyman' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Her Dream' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Long-Legged Fly' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Sailing to Byzantium' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Under Ben Bulben' read by Sinéad Cusack, Rupert Graves, and Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'When You are Old' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'September 1913' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'September 1913' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Mermaid' read by Sinéad Cusack
Select reading
W.H. Auden: Extract from 'The Sea And The Mirror' read by Sinèad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Second Coming' narrated by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stare's Nest by My Window' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'What Then?' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stolen Child' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stolen Child' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Leda and The Swan' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'A Drinking Song' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'For Anne Gregory' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Girl's Song' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Her Anxiety' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Crazy Jane and Jack The Journeyman' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Her Dream' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Long-Legged Fly' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Sailing to Byzantium' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Under Ben Bulben' read by Sinéad Cusack, Rupert Graves, and Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'When You are Old' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'September 1913' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'September 1913' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'The Mermaid' read by Sinéad Cusack
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