Brenda Fricker, Oscar-winning star known for My Left Foot and Home Alone 2, dies at 81

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Set us as preferred Irish actor Brenda Fricker, who won an Oscar for her role in “My Left Foot” and whose Pigeon Lady befriended Macaulay Culkin‘s Kevin McCallister in “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” has died.She was 81.Her talent agent Phil Belfield confirmed Fricker’s death in a statement shared with The Times on Friday.

The actor died peacefully Thursday evening in Dublin after a “period of ill health,” he said.“We will never see her like again and the world is lesser for the lack of her,” Belfield said in the statement.

“I was honored 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.” Entertainment & Arts Kris Jenner’s mom, the beloved ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ matriarch Mary Jo ‘MJ’ Shannon, died Thursday.She was 91.Fricker, who was born Feb.

17, 1945, in Dublin, appeared in nearly 100 TV, film and short projects since the mid-1960s.She reached international acclaim for her work in Jim Sheridan’s 1989 comedy-drama “My Left Foot,” based on the life of Dublin-born painter Christy Brown, who only had control over the titular limb due to cerebral palsy.

Daniel Day-Lewis starred as Brown and Fricker played his supportive mother.She earned the Academy Award for supporting actress, becoming the first Irish female actor to win an Oscar, and Day-Lewis took home the prize for lead actor.

“My Left Foot” was also nominated for best picture, director and adapted screenplay.In her review of the film for The Times in 1990, film critic Sheila Benson praised a “magnificent” Fricker for her portrayal of motherly love.

“She plays [Mrs.Brown] like the rock she must have been, without a jot of martyrdom or a flicker of complaint and without an actressy moment,” Benson wro...