Film
| Queen & Country | Dir: John Boorman |
| Eliza Graves | Dir: Brad Anderson |
| Wrath of the Titans | Dir: Jonathan Liebesman |
| Cracks | Dir: Jordan Scott |
| Eastern Promises | Dir: David Cronenberg |
| Tiger's Tail | Dir: John Boorman |
| V for Vendetta | Dir: James McTeigue |
| Mathilde | Dir: Nina Mimica |
| I Capture The Castle | Dir: Tim Fywell |
| The Nephew | Dir: Eugene Brady |
| My Mother Frank | Dir: Mark Lamprell |
| Passion In Mind | Dir: Alain Berliner |
| Stealing Beauty | Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci |
| The Flemish Board | Dir: Jim McBride |
| The Sparrow | Dir: Franco Zefferelli |
| The Cement Garden | Dir: Andrew Birkin |
| Bad Behaviour | Dir: Les Blair |
| Waterland | Dir: Stephen Gyllenhall |
| David Copperfield | Dir: Delbert Mann |
| Cyrano De Bergerac | Dir: Terry Hands |
| Venus Peter | Dir: Ian Sellers |
| The Last Remake of Beau Geste | Dir: Marty Feldman |
| Revenge | Dir: Sidney Hayes |
| Hoffman | Dir: Alvin Rakoff |
| Tamlin | Dir: Roddy McDowell |
| Alfred The Great | Dir: Clive Donner |
Theatre
| Tree |
Manchester International Festival & The Young Vic Dir: Kwame Kwei-Armah |
| King Lear |
Duke of York's Theatre Dir: Jonathan Mumby |
| Stitchers |
Jermyn Street Theatre Dir: Gabt Dellal |
| King Lear |
Chichester Festival Theatre Dir: Jonathan Mumby |
| Splendour |
Dir: Rob Hastie Donmar Warehouse |
| Our Few & Evil Days |
Dir: Mark O'Rowe Abbey Theatre |
| Other Desert Cities |
Dir: Lindsay Posner Old Vic Theatre |
| Juno & The Paycock |
Dir: Howard Davies Abbey Theatre & National Theatre, London |
| The Birds |
Dir: Conor McPherson Gate Theatre, Dublin |
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The Bridge Project The Cherry Orchard A Winter's Tale |
Dir: Sam Mendes Brooklyn Academy of Music & The Old Vic |
| Rock & Roll |
Dir: Trevor Nunn The Royal Court |
| The Mercy Seat |
Dir: Michael Attenborough Almeida |
| Anthony & Cleopatra |
Dir: Michael Attenborough Royal Shakespeare Company |
| Lie Of The Mind |
Dir: Wilson Milam Donmar Warehouse |
| Our Lady Of Sligo |
Dir: Max Stafford Clark Irish Repertory, Broadway & RNT |
| The Tower |
Dir: Howard Davies The Almeida |
| The Faith Healer |
Dir: Joe Dowling Royal Court |
| Map Of The Heart |
Dir: Peter Wood Globe Theatre |
| The Three Sisters |
Dir: Adrian Noble Gate Theatre, Dublin & Royal Court |
| Aristocrats |
Dir: Robin Lefevre Hampstead Theatre |
| Macbeth |
Dir: Adrian Noble Royal Shakespeare Company |
| Cyrano De Bergerac |
Dir: Terry Hands Royal Shakespeare Company |
| Much Ado About Nothing |
Dir: Terry Hands Royal Shakespeare Company |
| The Taming Of The Shrew |
Dir: Barry Kyle Royal Shakespeare Company |
| Peer Gynt |
Dir: Ron Daniels Royal Shakespeare Company |
| The Custom Of The Country |
Dir: David Jones Royal Shakespeare Company |
| The Merchant Of Venice |
Dir: John Barton Royal Shakespeare Company |
| Richard III |
Dir: Terry Hands Royal Shakespeare Company |
| The Maids Tragedy |
Dir: Barry Kyle Royal Shakespeare Company |
| As you Like It |
Dir: Terry Hands Royal Shakespeare Company |
| Measure For Measure |
Dir: Barry Kyle Royal Shakespeare Company |
| Children Of The Sun |
Dir: Terry Hands Royal Shakespeare Company |
| Wild Oats |
Dir: Clifford Williams Royal Shakespeare Company |
| Arms & The Man | Oxford Company |
| Othello |
Dir: Philip Grout Ludlow Festival |
TV
| North Sea Connection |
Dir: Paul Murphy RTE |
| MotherFatherSon |
Dir: James Kent & Charles Sturridge BBC |
| Moving On | La Productions |
| Call The Midwife |
Dir: Various Neal Street Productions |
| Marcella | Dir: Charles Martin |
| Jekyll & Hyde | Dir: Colin Teague / Robert Quinn |
| 37 Days | Dir: Justin Hardy |
| Poirot "Dead Man's Folly" | Dir: Tom Vaughan |
| Midsomer Murders | Dir Nick Laughland |
| Camelot | Dir: Jeremy Podeswa |
| The Deep | Dir: Jim O'Hanlon |
| A Room With A View | Dir: Nicholas Renton |
| Home Again | Dir: Ed Bye |
| The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Dir: Philla Ware |
| Summer Solstice | Dir: Giles Foster |
| Dad | Dir: Sarah Harding |
| North & South | Dir: Brian Percival |
| Winter Solstice | Dir: Martyn Friend |
| Have Your Cake & Eat It | Dir: Paul Seed |
| Mirad A Boy From Bosnia | Dir: Jeremy Irons |
| Oliver's Travels | Dir: Giles Foster |
| Tales From Hollywood | Dir: Howard Davies |
| God On The Rocks | Dir: Ros Cramer |
| Twelfth Night | Dir: John Gorries |
| The Henhouse | Dir: Danny Boyle |
| Scoop | Dir: Gavin Miller |
| Romance: the Black Knight | Dir: Waris Hussein |
| Trilby | Dir: BBC |
| Loves Labours Lost | Dir: Basil Coleman |
| Shadow of a Gunman | Dir: Alvin Rakoff |
| Playboy Of The Western World | Dir: Alan Bridges |
Awards
Rock & Roll
Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a play
Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Actress
Our Lady of Sligo
Oliver Award nomination for Best Actress
Evening Standard Award for Best Actress
Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Much Ado About Nothing
Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a play
As You Like It
Clarence Award for Best Newcomer
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Reviews
KING LEAR
★★★★☆Jonathan Munby’s dazzling production charts that trajectory with thoughtful clarity and fierce velocity. SINÉAD CUSACK’S intelligent, loyal Kent is a court bureaucrat who disguises herself as brawling yob by dint of tucking her long hair into a woolly hat and adopting an Irish accent.
Whats On Stage – Sarah Crompton
★★★★☆McKellen’s work is towering, poignant and fearsome as it marks Lear’s faltering imperiousness, punctuated by sudden piercing shafts of clarity and self-awareness. He’s surrounded by acting of considerable calibre too, not least from SINÉAD CUSACK as a loyal Kent.
Evening Standard – Fiona Mountford
★★★★☆ SINÉAD CUSACK as the quietly galvanising Kent and Danny Webb’s Gloucester, capturing the terrible trajectory from all-knowing cynic to mutilated victim, continue to be terrific.
The Telegraph – Ben Lawrence
★★★★★Munby’s cast is littered with terrific performances. SINÉAD CUSACK’S Kent is proud and humble in her loyalty to Lear.
-London Theatre – Will Longman
SPLENDOUR
“The four actors are memorably distinctive. Sinéad Cusack’s Micheleine is a totally plausible portrait of a woman who seeks to cover the disintegration of power through retreat into romantic memory.” - Michael Billington (The Guardian)
“Her bitchy grande dame manner cracking under the strain of the waiting game, Sinead Cusack’s brilliant Imelda Marcos-like First Lady dispenses shots of chilli vodka and tries to bluff it out that there’s nothing amiss in her husband’s protracted absence, while biliously sniping with her supposed best friend.” - Paul Taylor (The Independent)
“Cusack expertly captures the air of a first lady, all surface calm and turmoil buried underneath. In short, splendid.” - Fiona Mountford (Evening Standard)
OTHER DESERT CITIES
“The rest of the cast, all British, are also excellent, particularly Cusack, who dispenses cruel barbs like harpoons, but maintains real gravitas, credible as a humble Jewish girl who reinvented herself as a formidable Wasp through sheer bludgeoning force of will.” - Andrzej Lukowski (Timeout)
“Sinead Cusack startles with the cold gravity she brings to the matriarch; I don’t think I’ve ever seen this brilliant actress better.” - Mark Shenton (The Stage)
“The evening, however, belongs to Cusack, who is on cracking form as Polly; true, she has the best lines but she makes a monstrous character human, funny and affecting.” - Veronica Lee (The Arts Desk)
“In her fear of weakness, Brooke is a lot like her mother Polly who is brilliantly portrayed here by Sinead Cusack. Launching the character’s reactionary zingers, “It’s all or nothing with your generation. Either vegans or meth addicts or both at the same time…” with lethal comic timing, Cusack lets you see the Nancy Reagan-esque will-power and ferocious control that have gone into the manufacture of Polly’s immaculate facade.” - Paul Taylor (The Independent)
“We expect and get great things from Cusack.” - Dominic Maxwell (The Times)
“Sinéad Cusack plays the mother with an icy clarity and ferocious control that put me in mind of Nancy Reagan” - Charles Spencer (The Daily Telegraph)
