Cusack Acting Dynasty (British)

## ***Cyril Cusack*** (November 26, 1910 – October 7, 1993) was an Irish actor, who appeared in numerous films and television productions in a career lasting more than 70 years.

Cusack was born in Durban, Natal, South Africa. His mother was an English Cockney actress and chorus girl, and his father an Irish mounted policeman in Natal Province, South Africa.

#### First Marriage

Maureen Cusack (born Mary Margaret "Maureen" Kiely, November 24, 1920 – December 18, 1977) was an Irish actress. She was a leading actress at Dublin's Gate Theatre with transfers to London's West End in the late 1940s, she also was part of the Abbey Theatre Dublin in 1948 as a visiting company member with The Lyric Theatre Company.

On April 5, 1945, she and Cyril Cusack married and had five children:

* Paul (1946)
* Sinéad (1948)
* Sorcha (1949)
* Niamh (1959)
* Pádraig (1962)

#### Second Marriage

Cusack was married to Mary Rose Cunningham between 1979 and 1993, with whom he had one daughter, Catherine.

#### Selected Filmography

* Odd Man Out (1947), playing Pat
* The Blue Lagoon (1949), James Carter
* The Elusive Pimpernel (1950), Chauvelin
* The Spanish Gardener (1956), Garcia
* The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965), Control
* Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Fireman Captain
* David Copperfield (1969), Barkis, with his daughter Sinéad as Emily
* Tam-Lin (aka The Ballad of Tam-Lin, The Devil's Widow, and The Devil's Woman), Vicar Julian Ainsley, with his daughter Sinéad as Rose
* The Day of the Jackal (1973), Gozzi
* 1984 (1984), Mr Charrington
* Little Dorrit (1988)
* Danny, the Champion of the World (1989), Doc Spencer

### Paul Cusack

Paul Cusack (born 1946) is a television producer.

### Sinéad Cusack

***Sinéad Cusack*** (born February 18, 1948) is an Irish stage, television and film actress. Her first acting roles were at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, before moving to London in 1975 to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has received two Tony Award nominations, including once for Best Leading Actress in Much Ado About Nothing (1985).

Cusack married British actor Jeremy Irons in 1978, and together they have two sons: Samuel (b. 1978), and Max (b. 1985).

#### Selected Filmography

* Hoffman (1970), as Janet
* Revenge (1971), Rose
* Notorious Woman (TV, 1974), Marie Dorval, alongside future husband, Jeremy Irons as Franz Liszt
* The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977), Isabel Geste
* Waterland (1992), Marie Crick, with real-life husband Jeremy Irons as Tom Crick
* Bad Behaviour (1993), Ellie McAllister
* The Cement Garden (1993), Mother
* Stealing Beauty (1996), Diana Grayson, with Jeremy Irons as Alex Parrish

### Sorcha Cusack

***Sorcha Cusack*** (born April 9, 1949) is an Irish actress who has made many film and television appearances including The Bill, Casualty (as Staff Nurse / Ward Sister Kate Wilson from 1994 to 1997), the 1973 BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre, and the film Snatch (as the traveller mother of Mickey, played by Brad Pitt). In 1998, she played Mother Duck on the cartoon The First Snow of Winter in UK Version.

### Niamh Cusack

***Niamh Cusack*** (born October 20, 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).

### Pádraig Cusack

***Pádraig Cusack*** (born March 16, 1962) is an International theatre producer.

### Catherine Cusack

***Catherine Cusack*** (born December 21 1968) is an English actress.