Sorcha Cusack

Who is Sorcha Cusack?

Sorcha Cusack is an Irish actress. She has made many film and television appearances including The Bill, Casualty, the 1973 BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre, and the film Snatch. She has also acted for radio, including a guest appearance in the BBC Radio 4 series Baldi. She played Helen Connor in Coronation Street in 2008, but because of her other acting commitments the role was played by Dearbhla Molloy when the character returned in July 2009.

In 2013-14, she played Mrs. McCarthy, the housekeeper, in the recent BBC adaptation of the "Father Brown" mysteries.

In 2014, she played Mrs. Nicholson in two episodes of the first series of Mrs. Brown's Boys.

Cusack was born in Dublin, Ireland on 9 April 1949. She is the daughter of the actors Cyril Cusack and Mary Margaret "Maureen" Kiely, the sister of actresses Sinéad Cusack, Niamh Cusack and Catherine Cusack, the sister-in-law of actor Jeremy Irons and the aunt of actor Max Irons and his brother, the former child actor Samuel Irons.