{"id":31229,"date":"2026-07-18T15:59:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=31229"},"modified":"2026-07-18T15:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:59:20","slug":"oscar-winning-actress-dies-at-81-%f0%9f%92%94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=31229","title":{"rendered":"Oscar-Winning Actress Dies at 81 \ud83d\udc94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"16\" data-end=\"142\">Brenda Fricker, the Oscar-winning Irish actress known for <em data-start=\"74\" data-end=\"88\">My Left Foot<\/em> and <em data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"125\">Home Alone 2: Lost in New York<\/em>, has died at 81.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"144\" data-end=\"394\">Her agent confirmed that Fricker passed away in Dublin after a period of ill health. She became the first Irish woman to win an acting Oscar for her role in <em data-start=\"301\" data-end=\"315\">My Left Foot<\/em> and was remembered worldwide as the beloved \u201cPigeon Lady\u201d from <em data-start=\"379\" data-end=\"393\">Home Alone 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"396\" data-end=\"527\">With a career spanning over six decades and more than 90 film and TV appearances, Fricker leaves behind a lasting legacy in cinema.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-0l1UOAhoA8?si=nGOH07DuCmrAlu9u\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brenda Fricker, the Oscar-winning Irish actress known for My Left Foot and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, has died at 81. Her agent confirmed that Fricker passed away in Dublin after a period of ill health. She became the first Irish woman to win an acting Oscar for her role in My Left&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=31229\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Oscar-Winning Actress Dies at 81 \ud83d\udc94&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31231,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31229\/revisions\/31231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}