Oscar-winning Irish actress Brenda Fricker, whose decades-long career included an Academy Award-winning performance in "My Left Foot" and a memorable role in "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York," has died.She was 81.Fricker died Thursday night in Dublin following a period of declining health, her agent, Phil Belfield, confirmed in a statement. "We will never see her like again and the world is lesser for the lack of her," Belfield said.
"I was honored to know, love and work with her… she will always have a place in my heart and in the heart of so many film and TV fans the world over."'ALF' STAR ANNE SCHEDEEN, WHO PLAYED BELOVED SITCOM MOM KATE TANNER, DEAD AT 77Brenda Fricker and Macaulay Culkin appear in a scene from "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York." (20th Century Fox Film Corp/Everett Collection)The actress made history at the 1990 Academy Awards when she became the first Irish woman to win an Oscar, taking home the best supporting actress trophy for her performance as Bridget Fagan Brown in "My Left Foot."The film starred Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown, an Irish writer and painter born with cerebral palsy who could control only his left foot.Day-Lewis also won the Academy Award for best actor.Although Fricker earned widespread acclaim for her work, she remains instantly recognizable to millions of fans for portraying the gentle "Pigeon Lady" in 1992's "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York."Her character, a lonely woman living among the pigeons in New York City's Central Park, forms an unexpected bond with Kevin McCallister, played by Macaulay Culkin, in one of the film's most emotional storylines.LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSBrenda Fricker holds up her Oscar after winning best supporting actress for her role in "My Left Foot" at the 62nd Academy Awards.
(Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)Fricker's film and television credits included more than 90 projects between 1964 and 2024.She was part of the original cast of the BBC medical dram...