Niamh Cusack
Biography
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Niamh Cusack (born 20 October 1959) is an Irish actress. Born to a family with deep roots in the performing arts, Cusack has been involved in acting since a young age. She has served with the Royal Shakespeare Company and performed in a long line of major stage productions since the mid-1980s. She has made numerous appearances on television including a long-running role as Dr. Kate Rowan in the UK series Heartbeat (1992–1995). She has often worked as a voice actress on radio, and her film credits include a starring role in In Love with Alma Cogan (2011).
The daughter of the Irish actor Cyril Cusack, she is the sister of Sinéad Cusack and Sorcha Cusack, and half-sister of Catherine Cusack. She has two brothers, Paul Cusack, a television producer, and Pádraig Cusack, Producer for the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain. Cusack's husband is the actor Finbar Lynch; they have a son.
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Full filmography
- Midsomer Murders (1997) as Penny Galsworthy
- Death in Paradise (2011) as Maggie O'Connell
- Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) as Valerie Saintclair
- Heartbeat (1992) as Dr. Kate Rowan
- Father Brown (2013) as Roisin Crayford
- New Tricks (2004) as Joanne Gibson
- Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) as Emma Crackenthorpe
- A Touch of Frost (1992) as Sally Berland
- Screen Two (1985) as Denise Slipper
- Lewis (2007) as Dr Ellen Jacoby
- Jeeves and Wooster (1990) as Bobbie
- Brassic (2019) as Clodagh
- Loose Women (1999) as Self
- The Alan Titchmarsh Show (2007) as Self
- The Hollow Crown (2012) as Lady Northumberland
- We Live in Time (2024) as Sylvia
- The Tower (2021) as Claire Mills
- The Last Detective (2003)
- Rebellion (2016) as Nelly Cosgrove
- Midwinter Break (2026) as Kathy
- I, Jack Wright (2025) as Annie Rouse
- The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (1992) as Beatrix Potter
- Always and Everyone (1999) as Christine Fletcher
- Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant (2023) as Alma Hitchcock