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Fionnula Flanagan

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  • Producer
  • Writer
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Fionnula Flanagan
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Fionnula 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.
BornDecember 10, 1941
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BornDecember 10, 1941
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    • Won 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 8 wins & 13 nominations total

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    Known for

    Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, and Fionnula Flanagan in The Others (2001)
    The Others
    7.6
    • Mrs. Mills
    • 2001
    Waking Ned Devine (1998)
    Waking Ned Devine
    7.3
    • Annie O'Shea
    • 1998
    Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson in The Guard (2011)
    The Guard
    7.3
    • Eileen Boyle
    • 2011
    Rob Lowe, Jennifer Garner, Louis C.K., and Ricky Gervais in The Invention of Lying (2009)
    The Invention of Lying
    6.4
    • Martha Bellison
    • 2009

    Credits

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    Actress



    • Flycatcher
      • Mae
      • Pre-production
    • Everbrook
      • In Development



    • Paddy Considine and Christina Hendricks in Small Town, Big Story (2025)
      Small Town, Big Story
      6.1
      TV Series
      • Wendy's Mother (voice)
      • 2025
    • Four Mothers (2024)
      Four Mothers
      7.3
      • Alma
      • 2024
    • Crispin Glover in Mr. K (2024)
      Mr. K
      5.6
      • Ruth
      • 2024
    • Bodkin (2024)
      Bodkin
      6.9
      TV Series
      • Mother Bernadette
      • 2024
    • The Santa Stories (2023)
      The Santa Stories
      7.4
      TV Mini Series
      • Narrator
      • 2023
    • Jason Schwartzman, Viola Davis, Peter Dinklage, Rachel Zegler, Josh Rivera, Tom Blyth, and Hunter Schafer in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
      The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
      6.7
      • Grandma'am
      • 2023
    • Terry Chen and Mia SwamiNathan in Sight (2023)
      Sight
      6.6
      • Sister Marie
      • 2023
    • Sarah Goldberg and Susan Stanley in SisterS (2023)
      SisterS
      7.1
      TV Series
      • Dymphna
      • 2023
    • Dervla Kirwan, Gemma-Leah Devereux, Seána Kerslake, and Niamh Walsh in Smother (2021)
      Smother
      6.6
      TV Series
      • Caro Noonan
      • 2023
    • Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger in C.B. Strike (2017)
      C.B. Strike
      7.9
      TV Series
      • Oonagh Kennedy
      • 2022
    • Paul Guilfoyle, Richard Armitage, Rodolfo Sancho, and Amaia Salamanca in The Man from Rome (2022)
      The Man from Rome
      5.2
      • Duquesa Cruz Bruner
      • 2022
    • Zone 414 (2021)
      Zone 414
      5.1
      • 2021
    • Dominic Monaghan and Brighton Sharbino in Radioflash (2019)
      Radioflash
      4.8
      • Maw
      • 2019
    • Tom Berenger, Beau Bridges, Fionnula Flanagan, and Louis Gossett Jr. in Supervized (2019)
      Supervized
      5.1
      • Madera
      • 2019
    • Sing Me Back Home (2019)
      Sing Me Back Home
      5.3
      • Marie
      • 2019

    Producer



    • Fearless (2014)
      Fearless
      7.0
      Short
      • producer
      • 2014
    • Fionnula Flanagan in James Joyce's Women (1985)
      James Joyce's Women
      6.5
      • executive producer
      • 1985

    Writer



    • Fionnula Flanagan in James Joyce's Women (1985)
      James Joyce's Women
      6.5
      • written by
      • 1985

    Videos50

    "Visited by Three Ghosts" from A Christmas Carol.
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    "Visited by Three Ghosts" from A Christmas Carol.
    "Shrinking, Sliding, Falling" from A Christmas Carol.
    Clip 0:47
    "Shrinking, Sliding, Falling" from A Christmas Carol.
    "Shrinking, Sliding, Falling" from A Christmas Carol.
    Clip 0:47
    "Shrinking, Sliding, Falling" from A Christmas Carol.
    "Joy to the World" from A Christmas Carol.
    Clip 0:24
    "Joy to the World" from A Christmas Carol.
    "I'm Still Here" from A Christmas Carol.
    Clip 0:51
    "I'm Still Here" from A Christmas Carol.
    "Fezziwigs" from A Christmas Carol
    Clip 0:51
    "Fezziwigs" from A Christmas Carol
    "Crachit's Surprise" from A Christmas Carol.
    Clip 0:51
    "Crachit's Surprise" from A Christmas Carol.

    Personal details

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    • Alternative names
      • Fionnuala Flanagan
    • Height
      • 5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
    • Born
      • December 10, 1941
      • Dublin, Ireland
    • Spouse
      • Garrett O'Connor1972 - September 1, 2015 (his death)
    • Parents
        Rosanna Flanagan
    • Other works
      She read Edna O'Brien's "Violets" for Symphony Space's audio CD "Short Stories: Falling in Love".
    • Publicity listings
      • 1 Interview
      • 1 Article
      • 3 Pictorials

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    • Trivia
      Is an accomplished violinist, a talent she used in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Inheritance", in which her character plays violin with Data, her android "son".
    • Quotes
      I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.

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      83 years old
    • When was Fionnula Flanagan born?
      December 10, 1941
    • Where was Fionnula Flanagan born?
      Dublin, Ireland
    • What is Fionnula Flanagan's birth name?
      Fionnghuala Manon Flanagan
    • How tall is Fionnula Flanagan?
      5 feet 2 inches, or 1.57 meters

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