Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Fionnghuala Manon Flanagan (born 10 December 1941) is an Irish actress who has worked extensively in theatre, film and television.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Four Mothers
2025
as Alma
Edward, a gay novelist saddled with caring for his elderly mother, finally finds himself on the brink of literary success. With pressure to go on a US...

Mr. K
2025
as Ruth Monchien
Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of the hotel, he has slept in. His attempts to get ou...

Sight
2024
as Sister Marie
Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye surgeon in America. When tasked with restoring the s...

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
2023
as Grandma’am
64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, ...

The Man from Rome
2022
as Duchess Cruz Bruner
A computer hacker penetrates Vatican security and sends an urgent anonymous plea to the pope. Handsome Father Quart, of the church's Institute of Exte...

Zone 414
2021
as Jane's maintenance provider
In the near future on a colony of state-of-the-art robots, a private investigator is hired by the colony's creator to bring his missing daughter home.

Sol
2020
as None (voice)
Sol is plunged into darkness when his Nonee dies. Sent on a quest to find the light of the world, Sol's journey enables him to realise his love for hi...

Radioflash
2019
as Maw
When a nuclear strike causes an electromagnetic pulse that cuts off all power, water, and communication to the entire western United States, Reese fin...

Supervized
2019
as Madera
Four aging superheroes in a retirement home in Ireland come together for one last hurrah.

Sing Me Back Home
2019
After scuttling her career as a singer, Jewell Stone lives in Paris a job as a waitress. Marie, her grandmother and only family, who lives in Vermont,...

Late Afternoon
2019
as Emily (voice)
Emily finds herself disconnected from the world around her. She goes on a journey through her memories and relives different moments from her life. Em...

2019 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animation
2019
as Emily
2019's most spectacular Animated short films .

Birthmarked
2018
as Mrs. Tridek
Two scientists raise three children contrarily to their genetic tendencies in order to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.

Little Secret
2016
as Barbara
Little Secret is a film with three interlocked stories all connected by a single secret that converge to reveal the tragic yet beautiful lives of thre...

Trash Fire
2016
as Violet
Owen and Isabel's love story simmers with spiteful rage and unfortunately for everyone, Isabel is pregnant with Owen's child. To prove to her that he ...

Havenhurst
2016
as Eleanor
A troubled young woman takes up residence in a gothic apartment building where she must confront a terrifying evil.

Come Simi
2015
as Aunt Maxine
A neurotic pregnant woman on the verge of giving birth, attempts to reunite her estranged family which includes an impossible mother riddled deeply wi...

Fearless
2014
as Margaret
An aging actress experiencing early signs of Alzheimer's meets a suicidal young doctor who doesn't want to be a doctor.

Song of the Sea
2014
as Granny / Macha (voice)
The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When th...

Angels Sing
2013
as Ma
As a child, Michael Walker wished every day could be Christmas. That is, until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Micha...

Life's a Breeze
2013
as Nan
An unemployed slacker, his aged mother and his niece must overcome their many differences to find a lost fortune.

Tasting Menu
2013
as Condesa
As one of the world's best restaurants opens for its final evening, a couple in the midst of a divorce who made their reservation a year ago (before s...

Men at Lunch
2013
as Self - Narrator (voice)
This remarkable new documentary explores the story behind one of the most iconic images of the twentieth century: the 1932 photograph of workmen takin...
Pass the Salt, Please
2012
Dinner. A glass of wine. Stimulating conversation. What better way to wind down the day? A couples dinner repartee quickly morphs into a scene ripped ...

Coming & Going
2011
as Irma
Coming & Going is an irreverent romantic comedy that poses the question: How far would you go to capture the heart of the one you love? Lee (Rhys ...

The Guard
2011
as Eileen Boyle
When a small-town Irish cop with a crass personality is partnered with a straight-laced FBI agent to bust an international drug-trafficking ring, they...

Kill the Irishman
2011
as Grace O'Keefe
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian...

Three Wise Women
2010
as Beth
After a young girl witnesses her father having an affair, she declares she will never love anybody ever again. As a result, her guardian angel is forc...

A Christmas Carol
2009
as Mrs. Dilber (voice)
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

The Invention of Lying
2009
as Martha Bellison
Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.

Yes Man
2008
as Tillie
Carl Allen, a guy whose life is going nowhere, signs up for a self-help program based on one simple covenant: say yes to everything…and anything.

Slipstream
2007
as Bette Lustig
Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder my...

The Payback
2006
as Galina
Jeremy Northam portrays a real estate tycoon, while Fionnula Flanagan plays the matriarch of the Lazarov family, in this psychological thriller.

Four Brothers
2005
as Evelyn Mercer
Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the killers.

Transamerica
2005
as Elizabeth Schupak
A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

Man About Dog
2004
as Olivia
Three pedigree chumps learn that every underdog has its day in this freewheeling Irish comedy. In hock to the tune of £50,000 to a Belfast bookie and ...

Blessed
2004
as J. Lloyd Samuel
Heather Graham and James Purefoy play a couple who desperately want to have a baby. Unfortunately, she has been diagnosed as infertile, and the couple...

Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle
2003
as Margaret Byrne
Jessica Fletcher is off to solve another murder mystery, this time in Ireland.

Tears of the Sun
2003
as Sister Grace
Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between fo...

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2002
as Teensy Whitman
A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.

The Others
2001
as Mrs. Bertha Mills
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the...

Il gioco
2001
A reputed art critic convinces a young actress to play for him alone the role of a mysterious and seductive woman.

For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story
2000
as Sally Lewis
In the early 1970s, Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval (Andy Garcia) is torn between his own musical dreams and the dreams of his wife, Marianela (Mía Ma...

A Secret Affair
1999
as Drucilla Fitzgerald
Vanessa Stewart is a beautiful American woman engaged to be married. Vanessa is an artist and is also a buyer for her father's company. She goes to Ve...

With or Without You
1999
as Irene
Rosie and Vincent know each other for ten years, and are married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her dad. They'r...

Waking Ned
1998
as Annie O'Shea
When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.

Some Mother's Son
1996
as Annie Higgins
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA pr...

919 Fifth Avenue
1995
as Brydie
When Ben Constant agreed to write a biography on the wealthy Van Degan family, he never suspected the depth of scandal and intrigue surrounding them.

White Mile
1994
as Gena Karas
An ad-agency boss (Alan Alda) leads a white-water-rafting trip into danger.

The Pornographer
1994
A bitter, manipulative painter sets out to ruin his saintly pornographer friend.

Money for Nothing
1993
as Mrs. Coyle
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. ...

Mad at the Moon
1992
as Mrs. Hill
A young woman on the frontier marries a meek farmer who has an annoying habit of going through a rather drastic change every full moon.

Final Verdict
1991
as Pearl Morton
A trial lawyer risks losing his family and career when he defends a client who he knows to be guilty as charged.

Death Dreams
1991
as Margaret Neuberger
Despite her husband's doubts, a woman reaches out to her dead daughter with a psychiatrist's help.

P.K. and the Kid
1987
as Flo
P.K. runs away from home because her step-father keeps on harassing her sexually and her mother is ignoring the problem. She hides in the loading spac...

A State of Emergency
1986
as Diane Carmody
This story is about a crusading scientist out to stop nuclear testing who is motivated by scientific fact, conscience and faith. Dr. Alex Carmody (Mar...

A Winner Never Quits
1986
as Antoniette Wyshner
Raised in a poor Pennsylvania mining town by his immigrant parents, Pete Grey lost his right arm while still a young boy. But through the encouragemen...

Youngblood
1986
as Miss McGill
A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his...

James Joyce's Women
1985
as Harriet Shaw Weaver
In this tribute to James Joyce, Fionnula Flanagan gives a tour-de-force performance as a half-dozen or so women in Joyce's real and fictional worlds. ...

The Ewok Adventure
1984
as Catarine Towani
Wicket the Ewok and his friends agree to help two shipwrecked human children, Mace and Cindel, on a quest to find their parents.

Scorned and Swindled
1984
as Margaret
A man seduces women to get their money. He has plenty of success, but this time he has met his match.
Reflections
1984
as Mrs. Charlotte Lawless
A historian writing a biography of Isaac Newton spends a Summer with a dysfunctional family in Co. Cork, Ireland.

Voyager from the Unknown
1984
as Molly Brown
It is 1984. Jeffrey Jones is an 11-year-old orphan entrusted to his uncle and aunt. One evening, Phineas Bogg crashes through his bedroom window. As t...

Through Naked Eyes
1983
as Dr. Frances Muller
A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an attractiv...

Mr. Patman
1981
as Abadaba
Women, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward.

Young Love, First Love
1979
as Audrey Gibson
A teenage couple of disparate backgrounds experiences their first romance. She's a girl from a permissive California family; he's from a conservative ...

Mary White
1977
as Sallie White
The true story of the relationship between famed author William Allen White and his teenaged daughter Mary, who died in a horseback-riding accident at...

Nightmare in Badham County
1976
as Dulcie
Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to the women'...

In the Region of Ice
1976
In this American Film Institute-subsidized short subject, Fionnula Flanagan plays a sharp-tongued but compassionate nun, while Peter Lempert is cast a...

The Legend of Lizzie Borden
1975
as Bridget Sullivan
A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.

The Godchild
1974
as Virginia
Three Union POWs fleeing across the desert to escape both their Confederate pursuers and rampaging Apaches come across a dying woman and her infant ch...

The Picture of Dorian Gray
1973
as Felicia
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

Some Women
1969
as Dianne Richards
A film about four women who have been in prison.

Sinful Davey
1969
as Penelope
A young man, convinced of his paternity, aims to emulate his notorious father by committing daring crimes. However, his childhood friend is equally de...

Ulysses
1967
as Gerty MacDowell
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship a...
Deirdre
1965
The ancient story of the ill-fated Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach. Building on the many earlier literary retellings of the story, W. B. Yeats delibera...

Everbrook (The Home)
N/A
The Home unfolds after a young man is nearly killed during an accident that leaves him physically and emotionally scarred. To recuperate, he is taken ...
Brown Bread
N/A
as Betty
After years in New York, Áine returns to rural Ireland for her godmother’s memorial, confronting buried family tensions and unexpressed grief in her c...