Oscar-winner Brenda Fricker, known for ‘My Left Foot’ and ‘Home Alone 2,’ dead at 81

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Oscar-winning actress Brenda Fricker, known for her roles in “My Left Foot” and “Home Alone 2,” has died, according to numerous reports.

She was 81. A cause of death has not been immediately revealed.

The Dublin-born actress was the first Irish woman to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, playing Daniel Day-Lewis’s on-screen mother Bridget Fagan Brown in “My Left Foot.”

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She also was widely recognized for her portrayal of the Pigeon Lady in the 1992 holiday classic “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” who forms an unlikely friendship with Keven McCallister.

Over a career spanning more than six decades, Fricker appeared in other notable films including “The Field,” “So I Married an Axe Murderer,” “Angels in the Outfield,” “A Time to Kill,” “Veronica Guerin” and “Albert Nobbs.”

Television audiences knew her for portraying nurse Megan Roach on the BBC series “Casualty.”

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