BRENDA FRICKER (Eileen)

For her performance in Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot, Brenda Fricker won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also earned the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award, and a Golden Globe Award nomination.

Among the native Irishwoman's other films are John Huston's Sinful Davey, Jim Sheridan's The Field, Chris Columbus' Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, George Sluizer's Utz, Thomas Sclamme's So I Married An Axe Murderer, William Dear's Angels in the Outfield, Suri Krishnamma's A Man of No Importance, Kristian Levring's The Intended, and Joel Schumacher's A Time to Kill and Veronica Guerin.

Ms. Fricker has also starred in several miniseries and telefilms, among them Ken Cameron's Brides of Christ and Charles McDougall's Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss.