Fionnula Flanagan is an Irish actress and political activist, known for Yes Man, Four Brothers, The Others and Waking Ned Devine. Other film credits include Havenhurst, Little Secret, Song of the Sea, The Guard, Kill the Irishman, Transamerica, Some Mother’s Son, James Joyce’s Women and Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle.

Miniseries credits include Bridget Durack in BE’s Kings in Grass Castles, Molly Culhane in ABC’s How the West Was Won, Mary Smiling in BBC’s Cold Comfort Farm and her Emmy Award-winning role as Clothilde in ABC’s Rich Man, Poor Man. Other television credits include Nicky on Syfy’s Defiane, Eloise Hawking on ABC’s Lost and Rose Caffee on Showtime’s Brotherhood.

Theatre credits include her Broadway debut as Mag in Lovers (Music Box Theatre); Mrs. Blake in The Incomparable Max (Royale Theatre); and Molly Bloom in Ulysses in Nighttown (Winter Garden Theatre); and Off-Broadway, as Mrs. Alving in Ghosts (Union Square Theatre).