1. Fionnghuala Manon "Fionnula" Flanagan was born on 10 December 1941 and is an Irish actress.
16 Facts About Fionnula Flanagan
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Fionnula Flanagan is known for her recurring role as Eloise Hawking in the series Lost.
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Fionnula Flanagan was honored with the Maureen O'Hara Award at the Kerry Film Festival in 2011, the award is offered to women who have excelled in their chosen field in film.
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Fionnula Flanagan was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and won a Saturn Award.
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Fionnula Flanagan was born and raised in Dublin, the daughter of Rosanna and Terence Niall Fionnula Flanagan.
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Fionnula Flanagan's father was an Irish Army officer and Communist who had fought in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War against Franco's Nationalists.
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Fionnula Flanagan trained extensively at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and travelled throughout Europe before settling in Los Angeles in early 1968.
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Fionnula Flanagan made her acting debut as the lead role of Maire in Mairead Ni Ghrada's Irish-language play An Triail at the Damer Theatre in 1964.
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Fionnula Flanagan continued the role in the radio version and rose to national prominence in the Teilifis Eireann television adaptation, for which she won the 1965 Jacob's Award for her "outstanding performance".
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Fionnula Flanagan made her Broadway debut in Brian Friel's Lovers, then appeared in The Incomparable Max and such Joycean theatrical projects as Ulysses in Nighttown and James Joyce's Women, a one-woman show written by Flanagan and directed for the stage by Burgess Meredith.
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Fionnula Flanagan won an Emmy Award for her performance as Clothilde in the 1976 network miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man.
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Fionnula Flanagan did multiple appearances on Murder, Fionnula Flanagan Wrote, one of them as Freida, a secretary aiding Jessica Fletcher in finding a murderer on the episode Steal me a Story.
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Fionnula Flanagan guest-starred in several episodes of Lost as Eloise Hawking.
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Fionnula Flanagan appeared in such films as The Others opposite Nicole Kidman, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood as the eldest Teensy, and Waking Ned.
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Fionnula Flanagan appeared in television series and stage productions including the Emmy-nominated miniseries Revelations, starring Bill Pullman and Natascha McElhone, and in Transamerica, starring Felicity Huffman.
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Fionnula Flanagan appeared with Helen Mirren in Some Mother's Son, written and directed by Terry George, as the militantly supportive mother of a Provisional Irish Republican Army hunger striker in 1981.