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An Irish-born stage actress often compared to Vanessa Redgrave, Fiona Shaw has been making inroads onscreen as well since the late 1980s.

Adrain Dunbar and Fr. Brian D'Arcy at the graduation ceremony at the Coleraine campus of the University of Ulster on Tuesday.

Sara enjoys a good day on the beach with her daughter Kate in "My Sister's Keeper." Nobility in the face of death or disease is nothing new to the movies.

Library taps 'My Left Foot' The Life of the Artist Films Series at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, 1515 S.W. 10th, continues with a free screening at 6:30 p.m. in Marvin Auditorium of "My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown." The 1989 biopic earned Daniel Day-Lewis an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of a poor, ...

A local audience will have one more opportunity to see Carole Ries and Karen Hastings perform James Prideaux's bittersweet comedy "Lemonade" before the duo takes it to Tacoma, Wash., to compete June 23-27 at the American Association of Community Theatre Festival.

Unpredictable and famously shy about publicity to the point of Garbo esque seclusion - " sometimes for years - " following a film, Daniel Day-Lewis proved time and again his considerable onscreen talents in roles befitting the highly complex actor.

HE WON'T be able to graze his sheep on the lush Wicklow hills but Daniel Day Lewis couldn't give a fig as long as he can roam the countryside on foot.

Good morning. Today is the 119th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary of Duke Ellington, one of the most influential bandleaders and composers in jazz history.

WE have long viewed Daniel Day Lewis as something of a deep thinker, and he didn't disappoint yesterday.

Oscar-winning movie star Daniel Day-Lewis is to become the first Freeman of Co Wicklow.

Specimen of that dreaded genre, and TV staple, the disease movie, in this case the true story of Christy Brown, the Dublin painter and author afflicted with cerebral palsy.

On Saturday 18 April the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra premieres Mark-Anthony Turnage's Five Views Of A Mouth, a work based on Samuel Beckett's seminal monologue Not I, which will be performed as part of the concert by one of Britain's leading actresses, Fiona Shaw.

St. Patrick's fare comes mostly in the form of movies, from "The Luck of the Irish" and "The Brothers McMullen" to a documentary on Irish dancing in the city in "A Bronx Dream" . And then there is a run of the ...

There's more to St. Patrick's Day cinema than shamrocks and tiny tricksters. March 15, 2009 If you've seen ''Darby O'Gill and the Little People'' one too many times, do not despair.

Green bagels. Green beer. Green-faced kids in plastic derbies throwing up in the street.

Published: Friday, March 13, 2009 at 11:04 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, March 13, 2009 at 11:04 a.m. It's that time of year to open a pint of Guinness, chomp on some corn beef and cabbage, and find the perfect ...

Movie critics are generally sympathetic to small independent films that struggle to get made and seen.

The two biggest no-shows at the Oscars were Daniel Day-Lewis and Javier Bardem .

With his win for " Milk ," Sean Penn became the ninth man to have matching lead actor Oscar bookends, having earned his first in 2003 for "Mystic River." While Penn only had to wait five years to win that ...

One of the flat-out funniest movies ever made, with at least twice as many laughs as the stage version.