Fionnula Flanagan

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Fionnula Flanagan (with Rene Auberjonois) as Enina Tandro in DS9.

Fionnula Flanagan (born 10 December 1941 in Dublin) is an Irish actress. She was educated in Switzerland and England, and studied for her trade at Dublin's Abbey Theatre. With her portrayal of Gerty McDowell in the 1967 film version of Ulysses, Flanagan established herself as one of the foremost interpreters of James Joyce. She made her 1968 Broadway bow in Brian Friel's Lovers then appeared in such Joycean theatrical projects as Ulysses in Nighttown and [[James Joyce's Women]] (1977). The last-named project earned her Critic's Circle awards in Los Angeles and San Francisco; it was subsequently committed to film in 1988, with Flanagan repeating her portrayal of Harriet Shaw Weaver.

A familiar presence in American television, Flanagan has appeared in several made-for-TV movies, among them The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975) starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Mary White (1977), The Ewok Adventure (1984) and A Winner Never Quits (1986). She won an Emmy for her work as Clothilde in the 1976 network miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man. Fionnula Flanagan's weekly-series stints have included Aunt Molly Culhane in How the West Was Won (1977), which earned her a second Emmy Award nomination. Acting also as Lt. Guyla Cook in Hard Copy (1987) and Kathleen Meacham, wife of police chief John Mahoney in Help (1990).

Flanagan is also well known for her guest appearances in three of the Star Trek spin-offs. She guest starred in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode Dax, the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Inheritance, and she also appeared as Vulcan Ambassador V'Lar in Star Trek: Enterprise.

She has also appeared in many films, most notably The Others opposite Nicole Kidman, and Waking Ned Devine, as well as television series and stage productions--most recently in the Emmy-nominated miniseries, Revelations, starring Bill Pullman and Natascha McElhone, and in Transamerica starring Felicity Huffman. In 2006, Flannigan began a continuing major role in the eleven-episode Showtime drama Brotherhood. There she plays Rose, the mother of fictional Rhode Island State Representative Tommy Caffee. Brotherhood has been picked up for a second season of 10 episodes to air in Summer 2007, and Flanagan is slated to reprise her role in the drama. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.