Niamh Cusack
Also Known As: Niamh Cussack, نیو کوزاک
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Niamh Cusack (born 20 October 1959) is an Irish actress. Born to a family with deep roots in the performing arts, Cusack has been involved in acting since a young age. She has served with the Royal Shakespeare Company and performed in a long line of major stage productions since the mid-1980s. She has made numerous appearances on television including a long-running role as Dr. Kate Rowan in the UK series Heartbeat (1992–1995). She has often worked as a voice actress on radio, and her film credits include a starring role in In Love with Alma Cogan (2011). The daughter of the Irish actor Cyril Cusack, she is the sister of Sinéad Cusack and Sorcha Cusack, and half-sister of Catherine Cusack. She has two brothers, Paul Cusack, a television producer, and Pádraig Cusack, Producer for the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain. Cusack's husband is the actor Finbar Lynch; they have a son.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland
Birthday: October 20, 1959
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Gender: Female
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Hamlet: Bristol Old Vic Live
Overview: 'Must I remember?' Hamlet's father is dead. His mother has remarried. He is alone with his thoughts. Then, he speaks. Haunted by grief, and with his world spinning violently out of control, Hamlet has to make some decisions: forget or remember; live or die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-06
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The Playboys
Overview: A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-22
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Overview: Classic tales of Peter Rabbit."Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter." So begins the first of Original Peter Rabbit TalesTM, which have been translated into 35 languages and have achieved international success in more than 117 countries worldwide. The beautiful illustrations are magically brought to life in this captivating series, including a live action introduction featuring Niamh Cusack as Beatrix Potter, specially tailored for each story. This DVD includes three delightful tales: "The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny", "The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs. Tittlemouse", and "The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck", all beautifully animated and featuring the voices of Richard Griffiths (Harry Potter), June Whitfield (Ab Fab) and others!
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Closer You Get
Overview: Irish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of 20 and 21, to live in their isolated Donegal village. The whole town knows about the ad, and it sharpens everyone's sense of the opportunities for happiness already at hand. Kate, a publican with a young daughter, is separating from her husband and catches the eye of a bachelor sheep farmer. Kieran the butcher realizes that his assistant Siobhan is comely, and then he discovers she's fiery as well. Ollie sends off for Dutch skin magazines that the village postmistress won't release to him. The men, and women, find counsel in their movie-loving priest. Will anyone answer the ad?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-27
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Too Good to Be True
Overview: A divorced father objects to his former wife's new partner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-22
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The Best of Men
Overview: Ludwig Guttmann, a renowned German neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany in the early days of WWII, takes a position at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, England in 1944 and begins to transform the lives of his patients, paralyzed soldiers that have been written-off and who are facing death from neglect. A breakthrough comes when Dr. Guttmann introduces sport into their rehabilitation, a breakthrough that leads to the founding of the Paralympic Games.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-16
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In Love with Alma Cogan
Overview: The film revolves around, Norman, a world-weary manager of a pier theatre in a seaside resort. Norman has worked in the theatre for all of his life, but will not accept that the local council, which own the theatre are planning to install more commercial management in an attempt to boost audience numbers. As the story unfolds he realises it may be time to move on and put behind him the ghost of 50s & 60s singer Alma Cogan, who performed at the theatre many years ago. Sandra, his devoted long-suffering assistant and Norman decide to leave the theatre to fulfill her dream of being a professional singer and unexpectedly enjoying a late blossoming romance. From Wikipedia.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-04
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Lucky Sunil
Overview: Young, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold out against the seductions of pretty girls, the wiles of con-men and a hundred temptations of the great city?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-17
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In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Overview: In a remote Irish village, a damaged Finbar is forced to fight for redemption after a lifetime of sins, but what price is he willing to pay? In the land of saints and sinners, some sins can't be buried.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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National Theatre Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Overview: Christopher, fifteen years old, has an extraordinary brain – exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under suspicion of killing Mrs Shears' dog Wellington, he records each fact about the event in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of the murder. But his detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a frightening journey that upturns his world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-06
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Unwelcome
Overview: Londoners Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent, murderous goblins lurking in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden. When heavily pregnant Maya’s relationship with a local family turns sour, who – or what – will come to her rescue and to what extremes will she go to protect her unborn child?
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-27
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Little Bird
Overview: A film that searches the dilemma of a middle age couple Ellen and Michael Hall, who have lost their only child tragically in a car accident. They are desperately seeking to adopt. They foster a young girl and after several months the child welfare service decide that in the interests of the young girl, that she should be removed from the care of the Halls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-01
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Sally Leapt Out of a Window Last Night
Overview: In 18th-century Ireland, Sally and Eleanor scandalise society by eloping, to escape the fate that their families have planned for them. Based on a true story. Iris Prize nominee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-17
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Reawakening
Overview: John and Mary have lived with desolating grief and the agony of uncertainty for the past ten years. Their only child, Clare, ran away from home when she was fourteen and no trace of her whereabouts has ever been found. When Clare returns, now a young woman of twenty-four, Mary is overjoyed. But John comes to believe that Clare is not who she claims to be. As old tensions resurface, a gripping search for the truth unfolds.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-13
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Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Overview: The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-15
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A Reflection
Overview: Cam is brought back to her childhood home with three things to reckon with: her father’s heart attack, her estranged mother and the giant dragon following her around.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-18
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Testament of Youth
Overview: Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-14
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Desperate Journey
Overview: based on the true story of Freddie Knoller, a young man fleeing Vienna during the rise of Nazi Germany, set in 1940s Paris, unfolding against the vibrant backdrop of Paris' burlesque scene.
Genres: Drama History Thriller War Romance
Original Language: en
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Cause of Death
Overview: A QED drama special, based upon a real-life case of medical negligence. Within four days of being admitted to hospital with minor injuries, Ray Peters' son Mark is in a coma, and two weeks later he is dead. Suspecting critical mistakes by the doctors. Ray vows to find out the truth.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Documentary Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-09
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Five Minutes of Heaven
Overview: The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-19
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Departure
Overview: An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and, finally, each other.
Genres: Drama Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-20
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ChickLit
Overview: ChickLit is a comedy drama about four guys trying to save their local pub from closing down. They group write a chick lit, or more specifically a 'mummy porn' novel in the style of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and it gets snapped up. The only snag is that the publisher insists that the young woman 'author' does press and publicity. The guys have to keep their involvement a secret and so engage an out of work actress to 'role play' the part of the author. This leads to her becoming the star in the film of the book, the tables are turned on the guys and she is in control - leaving them with the awful prospect of having to secretly churn out sex novels for the foreseeable future.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-02
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The Ghoul
Overview: A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-04
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We Live in Time
Overview: An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-10
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The Kid
Overview: Based on the real life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his descent into a life of crime and the way he put his life together again afterwards.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-22
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Hereafter
Overview: Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-22
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Paris by Night
Overview: Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career - but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-18
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RSC Live: Macbeth
Overview: Returning home from battle, the victorious Macbeth meets three witches on the heath. Driven by their disturbing prophecies, he sets out on the path to murder. This contemporary production of Shakespeare’s darkest psychological thriller marks both Christopher Eccleston’s RSC debut and the return of Niamh Cusack to the company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-11
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Angels
Overview: Three guardian angels help three souls evaluate their past lives.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-01
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Fools of Fortune
Overview: A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-20
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State of Mind
Overview: Reeling from the discovery of her husband's adultery, Grace moves back to her family home with her son. Amidst all this emotional turmoil, forensic psychologist Grace is asked by police to determine the guilt or innocence a man who killed his wife.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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The Tale of Tom Kitten & Jemima Puddle-Duck
Overview: The Tale of Tom Kitten was written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and published by Frederick Warne & Co. in September 1907. In July 1905, Potter purchased Hill Top Farm in Lancashire, her tales then took inspiration from the farm and began working on Tom Kitten in 1906, its setting, interior of the house, gardens, paths, and gate of the front of the house came from the Hill Top farm house. The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck was written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was published by Frederick Warne & Co. in July 1908. Potter composed Jemima Puddle-Duck story from her Hill Top farm with setting wholly from the farm background illustrations based on the farm buildings, yard and nearby locales.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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The Tale of Pigling Bland
Overview: Pigling Bland is a young pig who is forced to leave home, along with his brother Alexander, when his mother realizes that she is unable to feed all eight of her piglets. Pigling Bland becomes separated from Alexander and gets hopelessly lost.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-27
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Four Mothers
Overview: Edward, a novelist saddled with caring for his elderly mother, finally finds himself on the brink of literary success. With pressure to go on a US book tour mounting, the last thing Edward needs is his friends jetting off to Spain for an impromptu Pride holiday, leaving their mothers on his doorstep! Over a chaotic weekend, he has to juggle his burgeoning career with the care of four eccentric, combative, and wildly different ladies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-04
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Loving You
Overview: Chloe, a divorced schoolteacher, falls in love with educational psychologist Dan, only to be left heartbroken when the police arrest Dan on suspicion of sexually abusing a six-year-old that he has been assessing. Chloe is forced to confront the possibility that Dan may have also sexually abused her two daughters, Alice and Lucy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-24
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-02
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The Tailor of Gloucester
Overview: A tailor is making a coat for the Mayor of Gloucester. He is nearly finished except for some cherry coloured silk. Some mice finish the coat in the night.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-24
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One Night Only
Overview: Earl Clancy, a cinema owner on the edge, battles a series of disasters while juggling personal turmoil and the chaos of a packed Friday night crowd -- Told in real time over the course of the movie playing in the cinema.
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Original Language: en
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