Brenda Fricker, First Irish Oscar Winner, Dies At 81
Fricker won the Best Supporting Actress statuette for playing Daniel Day-Lewis's mother in My Left Foot, and later played Home Alone 2's Pigeon Lady.
- Won the 1990 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for My Left Foot, a first for an Irish actor.
- Played the Pigeon Lady, who shelters Kevin, in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
- Spent decades on BBC's Casualty; agent Phil Belfield confirmed her death to People.
Why it matters: Audiences, not academies, decide an actor's real legacy: more people remember the Pigeon Lady than the Oscar.
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