She Died Young

Name: She Died Young
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A Life in Fragments

By Brenda Fricker

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She Died Young is the literary work of an astonishing mind in which intellect, madness, art and raw honesty unite. It is as far from a ‘celebrity memoir’ as you can get. With humour, honesty and a poetic sensibility, Brenda Fricker traces a life-journey in which... Read More

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The harrowing and inspiring memoir of Academy Award-winning actress Brenda Fricker.

The harrowing and inspiring memoir of Academy Award-winning actress Brenda Fricker.

Description

She Died Young is the literary work of an astonishing mind in which intellect, madness, art and raw honesty unite. It is as far from a ‘celebrity memoir’ as you can get.

With humour, honesty and a poetic sensibility, Brenda Fricker traces a life-journey in which her resilience and inner strength shine brightly. With luminous memories of happy summers in Kerry, where she and her sister Gránia got up to hilarious mischief and learned to rebel against Irish orthodoxy, she also explores devastating personal challenges. She talks frankly of her complicated adult relationships. She describes the difficulty of surviving sexual violence and living with mental illness.

Brenda’s contributions to theatre, film and television represent an artistic legacy that few can match. Her work in films like The Field, Swann, The Swallow, Home Alone 2 and My Left Foot is widely acclaimed, and her character, Megan, in the TV series Casualty, was a huge success.

She is the first Irish actress to win an Oscar.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035907465

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 September 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Apollo

Illustration: b/w photographs integrated

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 162.0mm

Height: 238.0mm

Weight: 460g

Pages: 272

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Biography & Memoir Brenda Fricker Non-Fiction

About the Author

Brenda Fricker (born 17 February 1945) is an Irish actor, whose career has spanned six decades on stage and screen. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television roles. In 1990, she became the first Irish actress to win an Oscar, for Best Supporting Actress for the biopic My Left Foot (1989). At the time of writing she remains the only Irish actress to have done so. She also appeared in films and TV series and shows such as Licking Hitler (1978), Casualty (1986–1990), The Field (1990), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993), Angels in the Outfield (1994), A Time to Kill (1996), Swann (1996), Veronica Guerin (2003), Inside I’m Dancing (2004), Albert Nobbs (2011), Cloudburst (2011), Holding (2022) and The Swallow (2024).

Now in her eighties, Brenda is continuing to explore her love of language through the medium of literature.