The first Irish actress to win an Academy Award, Brenda Fricker is known for her role as Mrs. Brown in My Left Foot. The same movie helped her win various awards including the Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress. She was active in the Hollywood entertainment industry for five decades.
The 74 years old Brenda was active in the field until 2014 and now lives a low-key profile. What is her net worth? How much has she collected from her profession? Is she living a lavishing lifestyle? Let's find out:
Net Worth And Earning
Brenda Fricker worked in the entertainment industry for over five decades and has definitely earned a high figure of net worth. As of 2022, Brenda's worth is $11 million.
Talking about her earnings, she earned millions of dollars from her acting in small screen movies and television series, and silver screen movies. Here are some of her films with successful box-office movies with its budgets:
Movie | Released Year | Star Cast | Budget | Box-Office |
My Left Foot | 1989 | Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, and Cyril Cusack | $752,970 | 14.7 million |
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York | 1992 | Macaulay Culin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stem, and Tim Curry | $20 million | $359 million |
A Man of No Importance | 1994 | Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, and Tara Fitzgerald | - | $934,550 |
So I Married an Axe Murderer | 1993 | Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, and Amanda Plummer | - | $11.5 million |
Angels in the Outfield | 1994 | Danny Glover, Tony Danza, and Christopher Lloyd | $31 million | $50.2 million |
A Time to Kill | 1996 | Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, and Matthew McConaughey | $40 million | $152 million |
Masterminds | 1997 | Patrick Steward, Vincent Kartheiser, and Bradley Whitford | - | $1.9 million |
As she worked in the television series Casualty as Megan roach for 72 episodes, she earned a hefty amount of money from the series.
Brenda Fricker's House
Barry Davies's former wife Brenda is now living all alone in her Dublin house with her two pets. She used to have three more houses in the Dublin Liberties area which she decides to sell in the market.
As she is alone and retired, she decided to sell her three homes in 2006. Watkins Square house with 630 square feet with a bedroom and bathroom with lobby an open brick fire and a utility room was put on sale for $472,500.
Her second house at the same location with 460 square feet with a bedroom, bathroom, and a living room with an open fireplace was for $441,000, and her third cottage house was on sale for $ 378,000 in the year 2006.
Brenda Fricker's Career
Brenda started her acting in the movie Of Human Bondage in 1964 but was uncredited. She got her first credited title in the 1978 British television series The Quatermass Conclusion. She got her primary role as Megan Roach in the 1986 television series Casualty.
Her role as Mrs. Brown in the 1989 movie My Left Foot got her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and created history as the first Irish woman to get an Oscar award. She debuted in Hollywood with the movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
Famous Tv Series
Brenda has appeared in numerous movies and television series like Of Human Bondage, Bloody Kids, The Ballroom of Romance, Casualty, Seekers, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Journey, Forgive Me,
Locked In, Closing the Ring, Stone of Destiny, Trauma, Inside I’m Dancing, The War Bride, Durango, and many others.
After retirement, she is currently living in her motherland, Dublin, Ireland.