Oscar winner Brenda Fricker dies

Actress Brenda Fricker, who became the first Irish actress to win an Oscar for her role opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in 1989’s My Left Foot and impressed viewers as the Pigeon Lady in 1992’s Home Alone 2, passed away on Thursday in Dublin at the age of 81, reported Variety. ‘We will never see her like again and the world is lesser for the lack of her,’ Fricker’s agent, Phil Belfield, confirmed her death to the BBC. ‘I was honoured to know, love and work with her and she will always have a place in my heart and in the heart of so many film and TV fans the world over,’ added Belfield. Fricker won many accolades across her career, including the inaugural 2008 Maureen O’Hara award from the Kerry Film Festival, which honours women that have excelled on film. According to the outlet, Fricker was born in Dublin on February 17, 1945Her first film appearance was when she was 19, in a small uncredited part in the 1964 drama Of Human Bondage. (ANI)