Niamh Cusack

Actor

Niamh Cusack was born in Dublin and began her professional life as a flautist. After studying at the Royal Academy in London she played with the RTE symphony and concert orchestras. She then trained at the Guildhall School of Drama in London. She has taken roles in a wide range of drama, both classical and modern, in London and the provinces, including Not I in the Beckett Festival at the Barbican, Three Sisters with her two sisters and father Cyril Cusack at the Dublin Gate Theatre, The Plough and the Stars with Judi Dench at the Young Vic, The Admirable Crichton with Rex Harrison at the Haymarket and The Playboy of the Western World at West Yorkshire Playhouse. She appeared as Rosalind in As You Like It, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Desdemona in Othello and Armande in Learned Ladies with the RSC.

Feature film appearances include Denise in Lucky Sunil, Clara in Paris by Night and Clara in Under the Sun, directed by Tony Richardson. Among her many television roles are Louise in Till We Meet Again (Yorkshire) Josephine in Fools of Fortune (Central) Ruth in A Marriage of Inconvenience and Melanie in Chalkface (BBC). She played Kate Rowen in Heartbeat (Yorkshire) in Rhinoceros with Robson Green (Granada) and Always and Everyone with Martin Shaw (Granada).