Fionnula Flanagan’s career is so vast, it’s difficult to give an introductory list. Her decade long dedication to Joyce in James Joyce’s Women stands out, as does her earlier work in the Broadway production of Ulysses in Nighttown. She also gave a very strong performance as a country women struggling with her son’s involvement in the 1981 Belfast Hunger Strikes in Some Mother’s Son.

In later years she had played opposite the Hollywood A list, most notably as the creepy housekeeper opposite Nicole Kidman in the superb horror thriller The Others. Earlier this year, she played the devoted foster mother opposite Mark Wahlberg in Four Brothers, a film for which she also won wide acclaim.

In her latest work, Transamerica, Flanagan plays a carping, overbearing mother whose son is about to have a sex change. The son, played late into female hormone treatment by Desperate Housewives Emmy winner Felicity Huffman, goes on a road trip with a son he or she never knew existed.

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