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Liam Cunningham
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Curse of the Starving Class
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The Custom of the Country
Cymbeline
Cyrano de Bergerac
Elaine Cassidy

Elaine Cassidy was still at school in Kilcoole, County Wicklow, when Atom Egoyan cast her as Felicia in Felicia's Journey (1999). It was a remarkable beginning. Her serious brown eyes and bare schoolgirl legs were the outward signs of a performance that captured perfectly the character's sweet determination, naivety and vulnerability.

She has since fulfilled the promise of Felicia in an impressive range of work: the mute maid in The Others (Alejandro Amenábar, 2001); Runt in Disco Pigs (Kirsten Sheridan, 2001); Agnes in The Lost World (Stuart Orme, BBC, 2001); Carrie in The Bay of Love and Sorrows (Tim Southam, 2002); Martin McDonagh's terrifying child-woman in The Lieutenant of Inishmore at the RSC (Wilson Milam, Garrick, 2002); Anna in Watermelon (ITV, 2003); Maggie in Owen McCafferty's Scenes from the Big Picture at the National (Peter Gill, Cottesloe, 2003); Hitler's doomed niece in Uncle Adolf (ITV, 2005); Maud—a tender pairing with the equally flourishing Sally Hawkins—in Fingersmith (BBC, 2005); Amy Harris in The Ghost Squad (Channel Four, 2005); Abigail in The Crucible at the RSC (Dominic Cooke, RST and Gielgud, 2006); Candy in The Truth (2006); Sandra in And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Anand Tucker, 2007); Louise in Frank McGuinness's There Came a Gypsy Riding at the Almeida (Michael Attenborough, 2007); and a beautiful realisation of E.M. Forster's Lucy in A Room With a View (ITV, 2007).
Actress, b. Dublin, 1979
RSC: Joined 2002
Seasons: 2002 (Lond.); 2006 (Strat./Lond.)
     
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