Niamh Cusack

Niamh Cusack ( /ˈniːv/ neev; born 20 October 1959, Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish actress. The daughter of late 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 came to the wider public's attention when she starred as Dr Kate Rowan in the popular television drama series Heartbeat (1992–1995). Cusack's husband is actor Finbar Lynch; they have a son, Calam.^[1]

Other television acting credits include Always and Everyone (1999–2002), a British accident and emergency medical series; the miniseries State of Mind; and the small but important role of Beatrix Potter in the TV series The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (1992–1995). She played Wodehouse's Bobbie Wickham in the ITV series Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993). She played a character in an Agatha Christie's Marple series ("Agatha Christie Marple: 4.50 from Paddington"; 2004), and has starred in episodes of Midsomer Murders (2008) and A Touch of Frost (2009), and the film The Closer You Get (2000) alongside Sean McGinley.

Cusack starred opposite Sean Bean in the 1986 RSC production of Romeo and Juliet.^[2] In 2007, Cusack appeared in the Victoria Benedictsson's The Enchantment, at the Royal National Theatre,^[3][4] and played Alison Ellis in Crestfall by Mark O'Rowe at Theatre503.^[5] In 2010, she played Catherine Dickens in Andersen's English, a play by Sebastian Barry.^[6] and in 2011 she appeared in the new play The Painter by Rebecca Lenkiewicz,^[7] and as Edith Davenport in Cause Célèbre by Terence Rattigan at the Old Vic.^[8]

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External links

• Niamh Cusack at the Internet Movie Database