Catherine Cusack

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British actress

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nameCatherine Cusack
birth_date
birth_placeLondon, England
occupationActress
years active1987-present
spouseAlex Palmer
fatherCyril Cusack
motherMary Cunningham
relativesSinéad Cusack (half-sister)
Sorcha Cusack (half-sister)
Niamh Cusack (half-sister)
Pádraig Cusack (half-brother)
Richard Boyd Barrett (nephew)
Max Irons (nephew)
Calam Lynch (nephew)
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| name = Catherine Cusack | image = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = London, England | occupation = Actress | years active = 1987-present |spouse = Alex Palmer | father = Cyril Cusack |mother =Mary Cunningham | relatives = Sinéad Cusack (half-sister) Sorcha Cusack (half-sister) Niamh Cusack (half-sister) Pádraig Cusack (half-brother) Richard Boyd Barrett (nephew) Max Irons (nephew) Calam Lynch (nephew)

Catherine Cusack (born 21 December 1968) is a British actress. She is best known for portraying Nanny Carmel Finnan in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street in 1992 and 1993.

Early life and career

Cusack was born on 21 December 1968 in London, the half-sister of the actresses Sinéad Cusack, Sorcha Cusack and Niamh Cusack, and the fourth daughter of the Irish actor Cyril Cusack. Catherine's mother was her father's long-term mistress, Mary Rose Cunningham; Catherine was their only child together. Her parents married in 1979 after the death of her father's first wife. She is half-sister to theatre producer Pádraig Cusack and television producer Paul Cusack. She was accepted to study at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, but became a stage manager at the Tricycle Theatre in London. She made her professional debut in Brendan Behan's play The Hostage before making her television debut in the Doctor Who serial Paradise Towers (1987). She performed on stage with her half-sister Sinéad Cusack in Our Lady of Sligo by Sebastian Barry at the National Theatre in London, the Gate Theatre, Dublin and the Irish Arts Centre in New York.

Catherine Cusack is married to the British actor Alex Palmer.

Selected filmography

Selected stage roles

Selected television roles

References

References

  1. "Cusack turns into Catherine the great - Independent.ie".
  2. "Catherine Cusack".
  3. "Doctors spoilers: Sid Vere gets stuck with his dad's new girlfriend!". [[What to Watch]].

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