Fionnula Flanagan

Fionnula Flanagan

1941-12-10 Dublin, Ireland 78 Credits

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.

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Four Mothers

Four Mothers

2025

as Alma

6.6
Acting

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

Mr. K

2025

as Ruth Monchien

5.8
Acting

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

Sight

2024

as Sister Marie

6.1
Acting

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

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

2023

as Grandma’am

7.0
Acting

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

The Man from Rome

2022

as Duchess Cruz Bruner

5.6
Acting

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

Zone 414

2021

as Jane's maintenance provider

5.3
Acting

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

Sol

2020

as None (voice)

6.0
Acting

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

Radioflash

2019

as Maw

5.1
Acting

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

Supervized

2019

as Madera

5.1
Acting

Four aging superheroes in a retirement home in Ireland come together for one last hurrah.

Sing Me Back Home

Sing Me Back Home

2019

5.0
Acting

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

Late Afternoon

2019

as Emily (voice)

7.4
Acting

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 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animation

2019

as Emily

6.0
Acting

2019's most spectacular Animated short films .

Birthmarked

Birthmarked

2018

as Mrs. Tridek

5.8
Acting

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

Little Secret

Little Secret

2016

as Barbara

6.2
Acting

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

Trash Fire

2016

as Violet

5.8
Acting

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

Havenhurst

2016

as Eleanor

5.1
Acting

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

Come Simi

Come Simi

2015

as Aunt Maxine

5.0
Acting

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

Fearless

2014

as Margaret

Acting

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

Song of the Sea

2014

as Granny / Macha (voice)

8.0
Acting

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

Angels Sing

2013

as Ma

5.5
Acting

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

Life's a Breeze

2013

as Nan

6.1
Acting

An unemployed slacker, his aged mother and his niece must overcome their many differences to find a lost fortune.

Tasting Menu

Tasting Menu

2013

as Condesa

4.4
Acting

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

Men at Lunch

2013

as Self - Narrator (voice)

6.5
Acting

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

Acting

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

Coming & Going

2011

as Irma

5.3
Acting

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

The Guard

2011

as Eileen Boyle

7.0
Acting

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

Kill the Irishman

2011

as Grace O'Keefe

6.8
Acting

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

Three Wise Women

2010

as Beth

4.6
Acting

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

A Christmas Carol

2009

as Mrs. Dilber (voice)

6.9
Acting

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

The Invention of Lying

2009

as Martha Bellison

6.2
Acting

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

Yes Man

2008

as Tillie

6.7
Acting

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

Slipstream

2007

as Bette Lustig

4.9
Acting

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

The Payback

2006

as Galina

Acting

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

Four Brothers

Four Brothers

2005

as Evelyn Mercer

6.8
Acting

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

Transamerica

Transamerica

2005

as Elizabeth Schupak

7.0
Acting

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

Man About Dog

2004

as Olivia

6.3
Acting

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

Blessed

2004

as J. Lloyd Samuel

4.7
Acting

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

Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle

2003

as Margaret Byrne

7.1
Acting

Jessica Fletcher is off to solve another murder mystery, this time in Ireland.

Tears of the Sun

Tears of the Sun

2003

as Sister Grace

6.9
Acting

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

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

2002

as Teensy Whitman

6.1
Acting

A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.

The Others

The Others

2001

as Mrs. Bertha Mills

7.6
Acting

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

Il gioco

2001

4.5
Acting

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

For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story

2000

as Sally Lewis

6.2
Acting

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

A Secret Affair

1999

as Drucilla Fitzgerald

4.8
Acting

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

With or Without You

1999

as Irene

5.5
Acting

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

Waking Ned

1998

as Annie O'Shea

7.0
Acting

When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.

Some Mother's Son

Some Mother's Son

1996

as Annie Higgins

6.7
Acting

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

919 Fifth Avenue

1995

as Brydie

1.0
Acting

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

White Mile

1994

as Gena Karas

5.6
Acting

An ad-agency boss (Alan Alda) leads a white-water-rafting trip into danger.

The Pornographer

The Pornographer

1994

Acting

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

Money for Nothing

Money for Nothing

1993

as Mrs. Coyle

5.6
Acting

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

Mad at the Moon

1992

as Mrs. Hill

3.7
Acting

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

Final Verdict

1991

as Pearl Morton

Acting

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

Death Dreams

Death Dreams

1991

as Margaret Neuberger

5.9
Acting

Despite her husband's doubts, a woman reaches out to her dead daughter with a psychiatrist's help.

P.K. and the Kid

P.K. and the Kid

1987

as Flo

5.0
Acting

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

A State of Emergency

1986

as Diane Carmody

1.3
Acting

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

A Winner Never Quits

1986

as Antoniette Wyshner

6.0
Acting

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

Youngblood

1986

as Miss McGill

6.1
Acting

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

James Joyce's Women

1985

as Harriet Shaw Weaver

4.8
Acting

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

The Ewok Adventure

1984

as Catarine Towani

5.9
Acting

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

Scorned and Swindled

1984

as Margaret

6.0
Acting

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

4.5
Acting

A historian writing a biography of Isaac Newton spends a Summer with a dysfunctional family in Co. Cork, Ireland.

Voyager from the Unknown

Voyager from the Unknown

1984

as Molly Brown

3.0
Acting

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

Through Naked Eyes

1983

as Dr. Frances Muller

4.3
Acting

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

Mr. Patman

1981

as Abadaba

4.5
Acting

Women, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward.

Young Love, First Love

Young Love, First Love

1979

as Audrey Gibson

Acting

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

Mary White

1977

as Sallie White

5.0
Acting

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

Nightmare in Badham County

1976

as Dulcie

5.9
Acting

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

In the Region of Ice

1976

6.8
Acting

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

The Legend of Lizzie Borden

1975

as Bridget Sullivan

6.8
Acting

A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.

The Godchild

The Godchild

1974

as Virginia

2.0
Acting

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

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1973

as Felicia

5.8
Acting

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

Some Women

Some Women

1969

as Dianne Richards

Acting

A film about four women who have been in prison.

Sinful Davey

Sinful Davey

1969

as Penelope

5.5
Acting

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

Ulysses

1967

as Gerty MacDowell

6.0
Acting

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

Acting

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)

Everbrook (The Home)

N/A

Acting

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

Acting

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...