Born in Dublin, Ireland. Maternal Irish character actress. After gaining experience in Irish theatre and with the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Court Theatre Company in Great Britain, Fricker received great acclaim for her Oscar®-winning supporting performance as the determined mother of a son afflicted with cerebral palsy in MY LEFT FOOT (1989). Venturing to Hollywood in the 1990s, Fricker played a homeless woman befriended by kid-on-the-loose Macaulay Culkin in the sequel film HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK (1992) and followed up with a more zany mother role in the little-seen SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER (1993). Having acted on English TV as Megan Roach on the BBC series "Casualty" since 1986, Fricker began conquering US TV with roles in the "American Playhouse" presentation "Lethal Innocence" (1991) and the miniseries "The Sound and the Silence" (1993). Other notable screen credits include THE FIELD (1990), ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD (1994), MOLL FLANDERS and A TIME TO KILL (both 1996), RESURRECTION MAN (1998), THE AMERICAN (1998), THE WAR BRIDE (2001), THE INTENDED (2002), VERONICA GUERIN and CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE (both 2003), TRAUMA, INSIDE I'M DANCING and RAZOR FISH (all 2004), MILK and TARA ROAD (both 2005), HOW ABOUT YOU and CLOSING THE RING (both 2007), and STONE OF DESTINY and CROSSMAGLEN (both scheduled for 2008).  Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role 1989: MY LEFT FOOT 1 nomination, 1 Award