# @bbcnews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Da5mOcGk6Ls
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- **Posted:** 2026-07-17T16:01:56.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** BBC News (@bbcnews) — https://gondola.cc/bbcnews

## Caption

Actress Brenda Fricker has died at the age of 81.

Fricker won the Oscar for best supporting actress in 1990 for playing Daniel Day-Lewis's on-screen mother in My Left Foot and played nurse Megan Roach in the BBC's Casualty from 1986, making her final appearance in 2010.
 
She also played the much-loved homeless bird lady, befriended by Macaulay Culkin's Kevin in Home Alone 2.
 
In a statement, her agent Phil Belfield said: "We will never see her like again and the world is lesser for the lack of her."

Tap the link in BBCNews’s bio to read more about her career. 

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#BrendaFricker #Casualty #HomeAlone #BBCNews

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