Where is niamh cusack now

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Hide Show Actress 50 credits. Maggie O'Connell. Roisin Crayford. Janine as Niamh Cussack, credit only. Nelly Cosgrave. Sylvie Blake. Joanne Gibson. Lady Northumberland. Ellen Jacoby - Falling Darkness Ellen Jacoby. Sally Berland. Penny Galsworthy. McGillicuddy Saw Emma Crackenthorpe. She has served with the Royal Shakespeare Company and performed in a long line of major stage productions since the mids. She has made numerous appearances on television including a long-running role as Dr.

Kate Rowan in the UK series Heartbeat — She has often worked as a voice actress on radio, and her film credits include a starring role in In Love with Alma Cogan She also found an opportunity to get to know her father, the legendary Cyril Cusack as an actor. Seeing him and talking to him and working with him on Three Sisters was really interesting. He never stopped working on it, he never stopped seeing if there was something else he might get out of it.

You could come to him with a problem you were having with a line or a character and he could give you really good advice. He wasn't at home, you know. They more or less separated when I was really compus mentus. A pause. She can't remember how old she was when her father left home. He married again, to Catherine's mother, actress Mary Rose Cunningham some years later, after his first wife Maureen's death.

Cusack was 18 when she lost her mother. She had quickly found success in theatre, playing Desdemona then and Juliet for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

That was in her 20s. Her 30s were dominated by her role as Dr Kate Rowan in Heartbeat, the hugely popular TV series she acted in for three years. Then in the mid-'90s, her character died of leukaemia leaving her sergeant husband a widower. As Cusack once told The Yorkshire Post, what really happened was she got pregnant and she was ready to leave the show. So she wrote herself out of the show to focus on being a mother and work in theatre. Now it seems to be much more a part of your business.

They all are very aware of Twitter and Instagram. Sometimes it feels like a waste of what you have to offer. I did briefly think of doing something else. It was one of these quiet periods that urged her to enrol in a psychotherapy course, she tells me. She was ready to begin the course when chance intervened. The course wouldn't allow me to miss the first two weeks so I knew what I'd do, I chose acting. It bothers her there is such a scarcity of parts for women in their 50s.

This is a matter the actor talks about at considered length. If you were in the law or you were a barrister or a teacher, you would become more senior and more sought after. I've made a few leaps, and got to grips with a lot in my acting.

It is a pity that you don't get to show that and to explore that, all that experience you carry because you've been on the earth this long. That's changing and that's great that it's changing. Aspects of theatre become more challenging as you get older, she says, like the six-day week rehearsals for My Brilliant Friend, and learning lines: "I need to work at memorising in a way that when I was younger wasn't difficult at all. Cusack is a feminist, who thinks there should be equality in her industry.

It is the story of a marriage struggling to survive the loss of a child, against the back drop of the one child policy in China.

It spans from the s to the present day and its structure turns it into a puzzle — in which the full picture only becomes clear at the very end. You really feel that you have lived alongside these people. Favourite documentary: 63 Up — director Mike Apted following a number of people from when they were seven years old to now. It was incredibly moving and revealing about class and the question of nature versus nurture.

And of course it makes you think about what it is to be a human being, to have a life. Which is maybe one of the gifts of this whole period. I have also dipped into a number of telly series : Normal People and Ozark were two I really enjoyed.

The former really captures young love in this love story of two rather damaged, confused young people. And the latter is a tall yarn of a thriller that sometimes made me laugh out loud with the outrageously awful situations the central couple get themselves into.

The bad people are very, very bad. Grisly murders and dead bodies abound! I have started listening to podcasts for the first time: three favourites are Talking Politics which is a London Review of Books podcast ; the New Yorker Fiction Podcast; and, This Jungian Life where a trio of Jungian analysts Americans discuss different aspects of being alive. Any other tips for not going stir crazy?

I have been recording a poem a day and sending them to friends and family. And that, along with a cycle ride each day by the river, has kept me sane. What will be the first thing you do when self-isolation is lifted? I am really looking forward to going for a walk with our son and showing him the route we have found along the river to Hampton Palace.