Fionnula Flanagan is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at this year’s Irish Film & Television Awards which will be held in Dublin on February 11th. Flanagan has had by any standards, a remarkable career in film and stage, the actress recently joked that she had checked previous winners of the award and was “encouraged to find that their work lives continue, some even flourishing, so that if I learn my lines and hit my marks and don't bump into the furniture, my own career might just continue on also.” Since starring in her movie debut in 1967’s Ulysses, based on James Joyce’s famous work, alongside Milo O’Sea and TP McKenna.
IFTA chief executive Áine Moriarty described Flanagan as a contribution as “a wonderful representative internationally, of Ireland’s film and television industry.”
Flanagan was born in Dublin 1941 and trained at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre as well as London’s Old Vic, she started her career in 1965 working on stage productions in Ireland and the U.K. before entertaining audiences in America.
