Oscar-winner Brenda Fricker, 'pigeon lady' from 'Home Alone 2,' dead at 81
Oscar-winning Irish actress Brenda Fricker, whose decades-long career included an Academy Award-winning performance in "My Left Foot" and a memorable role in "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York," has died. She was 81.Fricker died Thursday night in Dublin following a period of declining health, her agent, Phil Belfield, confirmed in a statement.
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Oscar-winning Irish actress Brenda Fricker, whose decades-long career included an Academy Award-winning performance in "My Left Foot" and a memorable role in "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York," has died. She was 81.Fricker died Thursday night in Dublin following a period of declining health, her agent, Phil Belfield, confirmed in a statement. "We will never see her like again and the world is lesser for the lack of her," Belfield said. "I was honored to know, love and work with her… she will always have a place in my heart and in the heart of so many film and TV fans the world over."'ALF' STAR ANNE SCHEDEEN, WHO PLAYED BELOVED SITCOM MOM KATE TANNER, DEAD AT 77The actress made history at the 1990 Academy Awards when she became the first Irish woman to win an Oscar, taking home the best supporting actress trophy for her performance as Bridget Fagan Brown in "My Left Foot."The film starred Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown, an Irish writer and painter born with cerebral palsy who could control only his left foot.
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