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Mary Margaret Cusack (Kiely)

Also Known As: "Maureen"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Glenties, County Donegal, Ireland
Death: December 18, 1977 (57)
Dublin, Dublin City, County Dublin, Ireland
Immediate Family:

Daughter of James Kiely and Rose Kiely
Wife of Cyril James Cusack
Mother of Sinéad Cusack; Sorcha Cook; Niamh Máire Lynch; Pádraig Cusack and Private

Occupation: Actor
Managed by: Geoffrey David Trowbridge
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About Maureen Cusack

Maureen Cusack (24 November 1920 – 18 December 1977) was an Irish actress, she was born in 1920 in the Glenties, Co. Donegal, Ireland as Mary Margaret Kiely. She was married to Irish actor Cyril Cusack and they had five children Sinéad, Sorcha, Niamh, Paul and Pádraig. Sinead, Sorcha and Niamh are all actresses and Pádraig is a theatre producer. Her grandson is actor Max Irons.

She was a leading actress at Dublin's Gate Theatre with transfers to London's West End in the late 1940s, she also was part of the Abbey Theatre Dublin in 1948 as a visiting company member with The Lyric Theatre Company where she appeared in The Viscount of Blarney 1948.[1] In 1946 she appeared in a Radio Eireann production of a play by Irish playwright Teresa Deevy called Katie Roche[2] and again in 1947 in Wife to James Whelan,[3] these were both produced by Gabriel Fallon.

She is best known for her roles in Odd Man Out (1947), "The Rising of the Moon" (1957), Von Richthofen and Brown (1971), also The Loves of Cass Maguire (1975), and Playboy of the Western World (1946).

She died on December 18, 1977, in Dublin and is buried in Saint Fintan's Cemetery, Sutton, County Dublin, Ireland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Cusack

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Maureen Cusack's Timeline

1920
November 24, 1920
Glenties, County Donegal, Ireland
1948
February 18, 1948
County Dublin, Ireland
1949
April 9, 1949
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
1959
October 20, 1959
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
1962
March 16, 1962
Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland, County Dublin, Ireland
1977
December 18, 1977
Age 57
Dublin, Dublin City, County Dublin, Ireland