<P> One of Fricker's first TV roles was staff nurse Maloney in Coronation Street, debuting on 10 January 1977 . Brenda's character attended on the birth of Tracy Barlow on 24 January 1977's episode . Fricker came to wider public attention in the United Kingdom in another nursing role, as Megan Roach in the BBC One television drama series Casualty . Fricker bowed out as Megan in December 1990, after playing the character in 65 episodes, because she believed her character had "started off with a wonderful sense of humour, (but) lost it all and all she ever seemed to do was push a trolley around and offer tea and sympathy". In February 1998 she appeared in two episodes, with Megan attending the wedding of her former colleagues Charlie Fairhead and Barbara' Baz' Samuels . In 2007, she returned for a single episode for Red Nose Day . The episode was written by Richard Curtis . Fricker's final appearance as Megan was in August 2010, when the character took a lethal cocktail of drugs to end her life . </P> <P> Fricker found international acclaim after she won the 1989 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Christy Brown's mother in My Left Foot . In her acceptance speech, Brenda thanked Christy Brown "just for being alive" and also dedicated the Oscar to Mrs. Brown, saying "Anybody who gives birth twenty - two times deserves one of these ." For her performance Brenda was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award and she won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress as well . She rejoined My Left Foot's writer / director Jim Sheridan to make the 1990 film The Field, starring alongside Richard Harris as Maggie McCabe (wife of Harris' "Bull" McCabe). She continued her television work during this period, starring in the Australian - produced short series Brides of Christ (1991). She then co-starred in the 1992 TV miniseries Seekers alongside Josette Simon, produced by Sarah Lawson . </P> <P> Buoyed by her Oscar win, Fricker went on to appear in several high - profile Hollywood films, most notably in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York as the Central Park Pigeon Lady (arguably her most popular film role). The following year she portrayed May Mackenzie (the Weekly World News - obsessed Scottish mother of Mike Myers' Charlie Mackenzie) in So I Married an Axe Murderer, and next portrayed Joseph Gordon Levitt's character's motherly caretaker Maggie in Angels in the Outfield . One of her last Hollywood film roles came with A Time to Kill, as Ethel Twitty (loyal secretary to Matthew McConaughey's Jake Brigance), after which she focused almost exclusively on film and television work in Canada and the British Isles . In 2003, she played Bernie Guerin, mother of Veronica Guerin (played by Cate Blanchett) in the film of the same name . She then played nurse Eileen in the film Inside I'm Dancing . In 2007, she starred in How About You the film based on a short story about people living in a residential nursing home written by Maeve Binchy, playing Heather Nightangle . Other important roles were Omagh in 2004 as police Ombudsman Nuala O' Loan, as Graiine McFadden in the TV docudrama No Tears about the women treated with the blood product Anti D in the seventies who had been contaminated with Hepatitis C, and as Aunt Maeve in Durango in 1999, based on the novel by John B Keane . </P> <P> Fricker has appeared in Closing the Ring, Richard Attenborough's post-Second World War drama, also starring Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer and Mischa Barton . in 2012 a high - profile supporting role in Albert Nobbs earned Fricker an Irish Film Award nomination, and along with Olympia Dukakis she became half of the first pair of Oscar - winning actors to play a same - sex couple in Cloudburst, a cultural milestone for the LGBT community that won awards worldwide </P>

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