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Fionnula Flanagan
  • Birth Name:
    Fionnghuala Flanagan
  • Date of Birth:
    December 10, 1941
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Sagittarius
  • Place of Birth:
    Dublin, Ireland
  • Height:
    5' 1"
  • Sex:
    Female
  • Hair Color:
    White
  • Eye Color:
    Brown
  • Nationality:
    Unknown

Family

Fionnula Flanagan
  • Father:
    Terence Niall Flanagan
  • Mother:
    Rosanna Flanagan
  • Spouse:
    Dr. Garrett O Connor

Career

Fionnula Flanagan
  • Profession:
    Actress
  • Debut:
    In the Region of Ice - 1976 - Movie

Awards

Fionnula Flanagan

2002 : Saturn Award, Best Supporting Actress
for: The Others (2001)

1976 : Emmy Award, Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in Comedy or Drama Series for: "Rich Man, Poor Man" (1976)

2007 : IFTA Award, Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Feature Film
for: Transamerica (2005)

2008 : Satellite Award, Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
for: "Brotherhood" (2006)

Trivia

Fionnula Flanagan
  • Fionnghuala Manon Flanagan is an Irish actress who has worked extensively in theatre, film and television.
  • She grew up speaking both Irish and English fluently.
  • Flanagan came to prominence in Ireland in 1965 as a result of her role as Máire in the Telefís Éireann production of the Irish Language play, An Triail.
  • Flanagan and her husband (since 1972), Dr. Garrett O'Connor, also an Irish nationalist, are known to give lavish parties at her Hollywood Hills home for people in the Irish community.
  • In July 2009, Flanagan joined Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams for a number of lectures supporting Irish Unity across the USA.
  • Nominated for Broadway's 1974 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) for "Ulysses in Nighttown".

Quotes

Fionnula Flanagan
  • "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood."
  • "I think all those women -- Margaret, Scarlett [O`Hara], Melanie [Hamilton] -- were all Ya-Yas ... all those fabulous women who knew how to run society."
  • "It`s wonderful, ... I`m going to immediately send a fax to all the actors in the show. We done good. And the picture has given such delight to people."
  • "That`s for another time."
  • "There are plenty of roles for older women. They just don`t happen to be the roles that normally carry the picture. For older men, that`s not so, ... [This movie] may change that, and I hope it does. But you know, it`s merely a reflection of what society i.."
  • "We had a wild night out with them in Wilmington (North Carolina, where filming took place)."
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Biography

Fionnula Flanagan
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 16, 2009

finnnula flanaganFionnula Flanagan was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. From an early age she grew up speaking both English and Irish on a daily basis. Her parents weren't native Irish speakers but wanted Fionnula and her four siblings to learn the language. Her mother used to say, "A nation without a language is a nation without a soul". Fionnula has said she will be forever grateful to them for that. She was educated at the Abbey Theatre School in Dublin and in Switzerland. She moved to Los Angeles in 1968 and lives with her husband, psychiatrist Dr. Garrett O'Connor, in Beverly Hills. Of her enormous body of work, including stage, television and film, she might be most well-known for James Joyce's Women (1985), in which she plays six different women who had a profound influence on James Joyce's life.

Besides giving an award-winning performance, she also wrote, adapted and produced the piece for the stage, and subsequently as a feature film. She believes Joyce is the most important writer in the English language, most notably for "Ulysses", "Finnegan's Wake" and "The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man". When she was growing up she thought the much lauded author was a good friend of her parents, because they were always saying, "Joyce said this, Joyce said that". When she was finally old enough to read Joyce for herself, the characters were like old friends.

Filmography

Fionnula Flanagan

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