#brenda-fricker

#brenda-fricker

It's possible, maybe probable, that the harrowing events of her life helped the Oscar winner become such a great actress I was at school with Brenda Fricker - we were in the same class at Loreto, St Stephen's Green - and I remember her as a sweet-natured young girl with a halo of golden curls. She was, in my recollection, favoured by the nuns as she always won prizes at feiseanna, and shone at drama and elocution.

Fricker said she spends every day in pain and gets out of breath just talking, stating: "I've never known tiredness ever in my life". The "weary" former Coronation Street and Casualty star, who is also known for playing the pigeon lady in Home Alone 2, said that she asks herself: "Will I ever get up again?" "I'm having a dreadful death," Fricker told The Guardian. "I'm just dying - every day in pain," she said, wryly adding: "I'll probably live to be 100."