Anna Manahan
Actor
Biography
Anna Maria Manahan (18 October 1924 – 8 March 2009) was an Irish stage, film and television actress.
Manahan received two Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play nominations for her performances in the 1968 production of Lovers and the 1998 production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, the latter for which she won at the 52nd Tony Awards.
Manahan was also nominated for two Drama Desk Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award in her career spanned more than 60 years. She interpreted the works of, among others, Seán O'Casey, John B. Keane, John Millington Synge, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Martin McDonagh, Christy Brown, and Brian Friel.
Filmography
Clash of the Titans
as A Stygian Witch 1981
Hear My Song
as Mrs McGlinchy 1991
A Business Affair
as Bianca 1994
Ulysses
as Bella Cohen 1967
A Man of No Importance
as Mrs Grace 1994
A Tale of Two Cities
as Vengeance 1980
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
as Old Woman at GPO 2000
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1977
The Treaty
as Woman 2 1991
She Didn't Say No!
as Maggie Murphy 1958
Fatal Inheritance
as Mrs. Griffith 1991
The Country Girls
as Mrs Burns 1984
The Glory Hole
as Mary Higgins 1982
The Rug
as Narrator (voice) 1985
Lucky
as Mother 1974
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Hanna (segment "Lovers") 2006