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Catherine Cusack

Biography

Catherine Cusack is an English actress of Irish descent, best known for portraying Nanny Carmel Finnan in long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street in 1992 and 1993. She is the half-sister of the actresses Sinéad Cusack, Sorcha Cusack and Niamh Cusack and the theatre producer Pádraig Cusack and TV producer Paul Cusack. She is the fourth daughter of the Irish actor Cyril Cusack and his future second wife Mary Rose Cunningham, their only child together. She is married to the British actor Alex Palmer.

Known For

Doctor Who: 24 Carat
Doctor Who: 24 Carat
Boxed
Boxed
Horror on the High Rise
Horror on the High Rise

Filmography

2023 Almeida On Screen: Spring Awakening
as Adult Women
2021 Doctor Who: 24 Carat
as Drinking Fountain
2015 The Raft of the Medusa
as Jude
2013 The Last Days of Anne Boleyn
as Catherine of Aragon
2011 Horror on the High Rise
as
2002 Boxed
as Ann
1997 Jonathan Creek
as Ashley Farr
1996 Ballykissangel
as
1996 Ballykissangel
as Frankie Sullivan
1994 Cadfael
as Catherine
1990 The Chief
as Hilary Scott
1987 The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
as Una O'Neill
1987 Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
as Blue Kang Leader
1963 Doctor Who
as Blue Kang Leader