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Dateline: 10th March, 2009
Anna Manahan (1924 - 2009) Irish actress Anna Manahan has died at the age of 84. In her long career, which started with training at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin followed by work with Micheal MacLiammoir and Hilton Edwards at the Gate, she performed all over the world, from her native Ireland to the US, where she won the 1998 Tony for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for her performance as Mag in Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane. She had previously been nominated in the same category in 1969 for Brian Friel's Lovers. McDonagh said of her, "To have met and gotten to work with an actress as bright and brilliant as Anna on my very first play was one of the most rewarding experiences of my whole life." She worked closely with Irish playwright John B Keane who wrote the play Big Maggie for her and in 2001 she toured in another Keane play, The Matchmaker, visiting, among other venues, the Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Fringe. Other Irish playwrights with whom she is associated are Sean O'Casey, J. M. Synge and James Joyce. Her television career included The Riordans (1960s), Me Mammy (1970s), Leave it to Mrs O'Brien (1980s) and The Irish R.M. (1980s). Most recently she played Ursula in Fair City.
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