Rosaleen Linehan
| Rosaleen Linehan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1 June 1937 Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation | actress |
Rosaleen Linehan (born Rosaleen Philomena McMenamin[1] on 1 June 1937, Dublin) is an Irish stage, screen and television actress.
Career
She has appeared in many comedy revues written by her husband Fergus. She has appeared onstage in, among other plays, Blithe Spirit, House of Bernarda Alba and Twelfth Night She was nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Kate in Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa at the 1992 Tony Awards. She starred as Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days on stage and on screen as part of the Beckett on Film project, having already played the role in a 1996 production at The Gate Theatre opposite Barry McGovern.
In 1972, Linehan won a Jacob's Award for her RTÉ Radio comedy series Get an Earful of This. She was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Irish Theatre Awards in 2008.[2]
In film, she has appeared as Nurse Callan in Ulysses, May Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977), Aunt Fitzeustace in Fools of Fortune, Mrs Canning in The Butcher Boy, Peggy Owens in About Adam, Mrs Matson in The Hi-Lo Country and Millie O'Dowd in The Matchmaker. In television, she was a voice artist on the Irish language children's TV series Inis Cúil in 2005, appeared in Hugh Leonard's BBC sitcom Me Mammy. More recently, she played Deirdre O Kane's mother in Bitter Sweet.
Family
Linehan and her husband live in Dublin and they have four children, and eight grandchildren. Her father Daniel McMenamin was a Teachta Dála for Donegal from 1927 to 1961.[3]
References
- ↑ Gillespie, Elgy (1985). Portraits of the Irish. Appletree Press. p. 24.
- ↑ Awards tribute for Rosaleen Linehan, Irish Times article of Fiona McCann, February 25, 2008, see www.irishtimes.com
- ↑ "Rosaleen Linehan". The Arts Council (Ireland). Retrieved 2008-08-20.