Niamh Cusack is an Irish

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 actress. The daughter of late Irish actor Cyril Cusack

Cyril Cusack

Cyril James Cusack was an Irish actor, who appeared in more than 90 films.-Early life:Cusack was born in Durban, Natal, South Africa, the son of Alice Violet , an actress, and James Walter Cusack, a sergeant in the Natal mounted police. His parents separated when he was young and his mother took...

, she is the sister of Sinéad Cusack

Sinéad Cusack

Sinéad Moira Cusack is an Irish stage, television and film actress. She has received two Tony Award nominations: once for Best Leading Actress in Much Ado About Nothing , and again for Best Featured Actress in Rock 'n' Roll .-Background:...

 and Sorcha Cusack

Sorcha Cusack

Sorcha Cusack Born in Dublin on 9 April 1949, She has made many film and television appearances including The Bill, Casualty , the 1973 BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre and the worldwide hit movie Snatch as the traveller mother of Mickey played by Brad Pitt...

, and half sister of Catherine Cusack

Catherine Cusack

Catherine Cusack is a British actress. She is the half-sister of the actresses Sinéad Cusack, Sorcha Cusack and Niamh Cusack, and the fourth daughter of the actor Cyril Cusack and his second wife Mary Rose Cunningham's only child...

. Cusack played Dr Kate Rowan in the television drama series Heartbeat (1992–1995). Cusack's husband is actor Finbar Lynch; they have a son, Calam.

Other television acting credits include Always and Everyone

Always and Everyone

Always and Everyone was a British television drama that ran from 1999 to 2002. It dramatised the hectic everyday lives of the doctors and nurses running the Accident and Emergency department of the large, busy city hospital, St. Victor's. The series has never been released commercially on VHS or...

 (1999–2002), a British

United Kingdom

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 accident and emergency medical series; the miniseries State of Mind; and the small but important role of Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter

Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.Born into a privileged Unitarian...

 in the TV series The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends is an animated television series based on the works of Beatrix Potter, featuring Peter Rabbit and other anthropomorphic animal characters created by Potter. It was originally shown in the UK on BBC between 1992 and 1995 and subsequently broadcast in the USA on...

 (1992–1995). She played Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...

's Bobbie Wickham

Bobbie Wickham

Roberta "Bobbie" Wickham is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves and Mr Mulliner stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a troublesome redheaded girl, enamoured of practical jokes which often result in general pandemonium.-Overview:...

 in the ITV series Jeeves and Wooster

Jeeves and Wooster

-External links:*—An episode guide to the series, including information about which episodes were adapted from which Wodehouse stories.*—Episode guides, screenshots and quotes from the four series....

 (1990–1993). She played a character in an Agatha Christie's Marple series ("Agatha Christie Marple: 4.50 from Paddington"; 2004), and has starred in episodes of Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...

 (2008) and A Touch of Frost (2009), and the film The Closer You Get (2000) alongside Sean McGlinley.

Cusack starred opposite Sean Bean in the 1986 RSC production of Romeo and Juliet. In 2007, Cusack appeared in the Victoria Benedictsson

Victoria Benedictsson

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's The Enchantment, at the Royal National Theatre

Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...

, and played Alison Ellis in Crestfall by Mark O'Rowe

Mark O'Rowe

- Personal Background :Mark O'Rowe was born in 1970 in Dublin, Ireland, to parents Hugh and Patricia O'Rowe. He grew up in Tallaght, a working class suburb just south of Dublin, and he claims that much of the violence in his work stems from watching and rewatching a tremendous amount of violent,...

 at Theatre503

Theatre 503

Theatre503 is located at 503 Battersea Park Road in Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth, above the Latchmere pub. It is a performing arts venue which specialises in new work.-History:...

. In 2010, she played Catherine Dickens in Andersen's English, a play by Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry is an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet. He has been shortlisted twice for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and has won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year....

. and in 2011 she appeared in the new play The Painter

The Painter (play)

The Painter is a 2011 play by the British writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz on the life and relationships of JMW Turner. It premiered at the Arcola Theatre in January 2011 to mark its move to new premises...

 by Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Rebecca Lenkiewicz is a British playwright. She attended Plymouth High School for Girls, then progressed to a BA in Film and English at the University of Kent from 1985 to 1989 and then to a BA Acting Course at the Central School of Speech and Drama from 1996 to 1999.-Career:As a writer, her plays...

, and as Edith Davenport in Cause Célèbre

Cause Célèbre (play)

Cause Célèbre or A Woman of Principle is a 1975 radio play by the English author Terence Rattigan. It was inspired by the trial of Alma Rattenbury and her teenage lover in 1935 for the murder of her third husband Francis Rattenbury and first broadcast on the BBC on 27 October 1975...

 by Terence Rattigan

Terence Rattigan

Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan CBE was one of England's most popular 20th-century dramatists. His plays are generally set in an upper-middle-class background...

 at the Old Vic

Old Vic

The Old Vic is a theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road. Established in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre, it was taken over by Emma Cons in 1880 when it was known formally as the Royal Victoria Hall. In 1898, a niece of Cons, Lilian...

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Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1990	Fools of Fortune Fools of Fortune Fools of Fortune is a 1990 British drama film directed by Pat O'Connor and starring Iain Glen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Julie Christie, Amy Joyce Hastings and Michael Kitchen. It depicts a Protestant family caught up in the conflict between the British army and the IRA during the Irish War of...	Josephine
1992	The Playboys The Playboys The Playboys is a 1992 Irish film directed by Gillies MacKinnon and starring Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn and Robin Wright. The plot follows an unwed young mother whose life is transformed with the arrival of a traveling troupe of actors to her Irish village. The script was written by Shane...	Brigid Maguire
2000	The Closer You Get	Kate
2007	Matterhorn	Marie	Short film
2010	The Kid The Kid (2010 film) The Kid is a 2010 British biopic about the life of Kevin Lewis. Based on his autobiography of the same name, it is the story of a boy growing up in a violent, abusive family on a council estate in the 1980s.-Plot:...	1980 school nurse
	Hereafter Hereafter (film) Hereafter is a 2010 American drama film directed by Clint Eastwood, from a screenplay by Peter Morgan and produced by Steven Spielberg. The film tells three parallel stories about three people affected by death in similar ways - all three have issues of communicating with the dead; Matt Damon plays...	Marcus' foster mother
2011	In Love with Alma Cogan	Sandra
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Jeeves and Wooster Jeeves and Wooster -External links:*—An episode guide to the series, including information about which episodes were adapted from which Wodehouse stories.*—Episode guides, screenshots and quotes from the four series....	Roberta 'Bobbie' Wickham	Episode: Wooster with a Wife (or, Jeeves the Matchmaker)
	Chalkface	Melanie	7 episodes
1992	The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends is an animated television series based on the works of Beatrix Potter, featuring Peter Rabbit and other anthropomorphic animal characters created by Potter. It was originally shown in the UK on BBC between 1992 and 1995 and subsequently broadcast in the USA on...	Beatrix Potter
	Heartbeat	Dr. Kate Rowan
1998	Colour Blind	Bridget Paterson	2 episodes
1999	Rhinoceros	Julie Flynn	TV movie
	Always and Everyone Always and Everyone Always and Everyone was a British television drama that ran from 1999 to 2002. It dramatised the hectic everyday lives of the doctors and nurses running the Accident and Emergency department of the large, busy city hospital, St. Victor's. The series has never been released commercially on VHS or...	Christine Fletcher	5 episodes
2000	Little Bird	Ellen Hall	TV movie
2003	State of Mind	Dr. Grace Hazlett	TV movie
	Loving You	Chloe	TV movie
	Too Good to Be True	Tina	TV movie
2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Emma Crackenthorpe	Episode: 4.50 from Paddington
2005	The Last Detective The Last Detective The Last Detective is an ITV drama starring Peter Davison as Dangerous Davies. The first series aired in 2003 with three more seasons succeeding this...	Gill	Episode: Friends Reunited
2007	Fallen Angel	Vanessa Byfield	Episode: The Judgement of Strangers
2008	Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...	Penny Galsworthy	Episode: Days of Misrule
2010	A Touch of Frost A Touch of Frost (TV series) A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield....	Sally Berland	2 episodes
	Lewis	Dr. Ellen Jacoby	Episode: Falling Darkness

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