Brenda Fricker, ‘My Left Foot’ Oscar Winner, Dies at 81

Brenda Fricker, the acclaimed Irish actor who won an Academy Award for her role opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in nineteen eighty-nine's "My Left Foot," has died at the age of eighty-one. Variety reports that Fricker died on Thursday in Dublin, with her agent, Phil Belfield, confirming the news to the BBC. Fricker was among the most celebrated Irish performers of her generation, and her Oscar win marked a defining moment in a long screen career.

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