Brenda Fricker, Oscar winner for My Left Foot, dies aged 81

Irish actor Brenda Fricker, the first female Irish Oscar winner for acting, has died at eighty-one, The Guardian reports. She won the Academy Award for best supporting actress in nineteen eighty-nine for her role as the mother of Christy Brown in 'My Left Foot.' Before her film breakthrough, Fricker appeared in the British television series Coronation Street and Casualty. Her agent said she was irreplaceable and beloved by countless film and TV fans.

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