Niamh Cusack

Acting

Niamh Cusack

Born

1959-10-20 (66)

Place of birth

Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland

Known for

Acting

Credits

80 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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,…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 13 titles

We Live in Time poster
7.2

An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.

We Live in Time

2024

In the Land of Saints and Sinners poster
6.4

In a remote Irish village, a damaged Finbar is forced to fight for redemption after a lifetime of sins, but what price is he willing to pay? In the land of saints and sinners, some sins can't be buried.

In the Land of Saints and Sinners

2023

Midwinter Break poster
7.4

Longtime retired couple Stella and Gerry realise that their relationship has reached a crossroads while on holiday in Amsterdam. After so much time and so many memories, long-held promises and deeply concealed wounds threaten to come to light and force them to confront their future.

Midwinter Break

2026

Unwelcome poster
5.8

Londoners Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent, murderous goblins lurking in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden. When heavily pregnant Maya’s relationship with a local family turns sour, who – or what – will come to her rescue and to what extremes will she go to protect her unborn child?

Unwelcome

2023

Four Mothers poster
6.7

Edward, a gay novelist saddled with caring for his elderly mother, finally finds himself on the brink of literary success. With pressure to go on a US book tour mounting, the last thing Edward needs is his friends jetting off to Spain for an impromptu Pride holiday, leaving their mothers on his doorstep! Over a chaotic weekend, he has to juggle his burgeoning career with the care of four eccentric, combative, and wildly different ladies.

Four Mothers

2025

Reawakening poster
6.3

John and Mary have lived with desolating grief and the agony of uncertainty for the past ten years. Their only child, Clare, ran away from home when she was fourteen and no trace of her whereabouts has ever been found. When Clare returns, now a young woman of twenty-four, Mary is overjoyed. But John comes to believe that Clare is not who she claims to be. As old tensions resurface, a gripping search for the truth unfolds.

Reawakening

2024

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema poster
6.7

Earl Clancy, a cinema owner on the edge, battles a series of disasters while juggling personal turmoil and the chaos of a packed Friday night crowd. Told in real time over the course of the movie playing in the cinema (Breathless, starring Richard Gere).

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema

2026

The Three Urns poster
NR

Back in his home country to spread the ashes of his beloved wife, a man races to his destination. In a milk float. Chased by a beautiful French woman in a smart car, plagued with battery issues.

The Three Urns

2026

Hamlet: Bristol Old Vic Live poster
NR

'Must I remember?' Hamlet's father is dead. His mother has remarried. He is alone with his thoughts. Then, he speaks. Haunted by grief, and with his world spinning violently out of control, Hamlet has to make some decisions: forget or remember; live or die.

Hamlet: Bristol Old Vic Live

2023

A Reflection poster
6.0

Cam is brought back to her childhood home with three things to reckon with: her father’s heart attack, her estranged mother and the giant dragon following her around.

A Reflection

2023

Desperate Journey poster
8.3

The true story of Freddie Knoller, a young Jewish man who flees Vienna following the Nazi occupation in 1938 and finds solace in the vibrant world of Paris's burlesque scene.

Desperate Journey

2025

Sally Leapt Out of a Window Last Night poster
NR

In 18th-century Ireland, Sally and Eleanor scandalise society by eloping, to escape the fate that their families have planned for them. Based on a true story. Iris Prize nominee.

Sally Leapt Out of a Window Last Night

2023

Carrot Cake poster
NR

In the Peak District, a birdwatcher grapples with early-onset dementia as her daughter returns, and an unlikely friendship with a troubled young girl helps her make sense of her shifting world.

Carrot Cake

2025

2010s · 10 titles

Hereafter poster
6.2

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.

Hereafter

2010

Testament of Youth poster
7.2

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

Testament of Youth

2015

Departure poster
6.3

An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and, finally, each other.

Departure

2016

The Best of Men poster
6.9

Ludwig Guttmann, a renowned German neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany in the early days of WWII, takes a position at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, England in 1944 and begins to transform the lives of his patients, paralyzed soldiers that have been written-off and who are facing death from neglect. A breakthrough comes when Dr. Guttmann introduces sport into their rehabilitation, a breakthrough that leads to the founding of the Paralympic Games.

The Best of Men

2012

The Ghoul poster
6.0

A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.

The Ghoul

2017

The Kid poster
6.5

Based on the real life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his descent into a life of crime and the way he put his life together again afterwards.

The Kid

2010

National Theatre Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time poster
9.6

Christopher, fifteen years old, has an extraordinary brain – exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under suspicion of killing Mrs Shears' dog Wellington, he records each fact about the event in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of the murder. But his detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a frightening journey that upturns his world.

National Theatre Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

2012

In Love with Alma Cogan poster
7.0

The film revolves around, Norman, a world-weary manager of a pier theatre in a seaside resort. Norman has worked in the theatre for all of his life, but will not accept that the local council, which own the theatre are planning to install more commercial management in an attempt to boost audience numbers. As the story unfolds he realises it may be time to move on and put behind him the ghost of 50s & 60s singer Alma Cogan, who performed at the theatre many years ago. Sandra, his devoted long-suffering assistant and Norman decide to leave the theatre to fulfill her dream of being a professional singer and unexpectedly enjoying a late blossoming romance. From Wikipedia.

In Love with Alma Cogan

2011

RSC Live: Macbeth poster
9.0

Returning home from battle, the victorious Macbeth meets three witches on the heath. Driven by their disturbing prophecies, he sets out on the path to murder. This contemporary production of Shakespeare’s darkest psychological thriller marks both Christopher Eccleston’s RSC debut and the return of Niamh Cusack to the company.

RSC Live: Macbeth

2018

ChickLit poster
5.4

ChickLit is a comedy drama about four guys trying to save their local pub from closing down. They group write a chick lit, or more specifically a 'mummy porn' novel in the style of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and it gets snapped up. The only snag is that the publisher insists that the young woman 'author' does press and publicity. The guys have to keep their involvement a secret and so engage an out of work actress to 'role play' the part of the author. This leads to her becoming the star in the film of the book, the tables are turned on the guys and she is in control - leaving them with the awful prospect of having to secretly churn out sex novels for the foreseeable future.

ChickLit

2016

2000s · 8 titles

Five Minutes of Heaven poster
6.1

The story of former Ulster Volunteer Force member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffin's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.

Five Minutes of Heaven

2009

The Closer You Get poster
5.7

Irish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of 20 and 21, to live in their isolated Donegal village. The whole town knows about the ad, and it sharpens everyone's sense of the opportunities for happiness already at hand. Kate, a publican with a young daughter, is separating from her husband and catches the eye of a bachelor sheep farmer. Kieran the butcher realizes that his assistant Siobhan is comely, and then he discovers she's fiery as well. Ollie sends off for Dutch skin magazines that the village postmistress won't release to him. The men, and women, find counsel in their movie-loving priest. Will anyone answer the ad?

The Closer You Get

2000

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends poster
8.5

Classic tales of Peter Rabbit."Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter." So begins the first of Original Peter Rabbit TalesTM, which have been translated into 35 languages and have achieved international success in more than 117 countries worldwide. The beautiful illustrations are magically brought to life in this captivating series, including a live action introduction featuring Niamh Cusack as Beatrix Potter, specially tailored for each story. This DVD includes three delightful tales: "The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny", "The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs. Tittlemouse", and "The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck", all beautifully animated and featuring the voices of Richard Griffiths (Harry Potter), June Whitfield (Ab Fab) and others!

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

2006

Friends Reunited poster
NR

Two decades after they graduate, dark secrets, jealousies, and long-buried issues of resentment arise with a group of former classmates.

Friends Reunited

2005

Little Bird poster
4.5

A film that searches the dilemma of a middle age couple Ellen and Michael Hall, who have lost their only child tragically in a car accident. They are desperately seeking to adopt. They foster a young girl and after several months the child welfare service decide that in the interests of the young girl, that she should be removed from the care of the Halls.

Little Bird

2000

No artwork available
10.0

Chloe, a divorced schoolteacher, falls in love with educational psychologist Dan, only to be left heartbroken when the police arrest Dan on suspicion of sexually abusing a six-year-old that he has been assessing. Chloe is forced to confront the possibility that Dan may have also sexually abused her two daughters, Alice and Lucy.

Loving You

2003

State of Mind poster
5.8

Reeling from the discovery of her husband's adultery, Grace moves back to her family home with her son. Amidst all this emotional turmoil, forensic psychologist Grace is asked by police to determine the guilt or innocence a man who killed his wife.

State of Mind

2003

Too Good to Be True poster
3.5

A divorced father objects to his former wife's new partner.

Too Good to Be True

2003

1990s · 13 titles

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny poster
7.5

"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 1. The mischievous adventure of Peter Rabbit and his cousin, Benjamin Bunny in Mr. McGregor's garden.

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny

1992

The Playboys poster
6.2

A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).

The Playboys

1992

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mr. Tod poster
NR

"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 9. A sleepy Mr. Bouncer can not stop Tommy Brock from stealing the sleepy Flopsy bunnies, which he takes to Mr. Tod's lodge where he plan to eat them, but the owner comes back.

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mr. Tod

1998

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher poster
NR

"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 5. While searching for her somewhere lost handkerchiefs, little Lucie meets Mrs. Tiggy Winkle, a hedgehog who does laundry, anmd Mr. Jeremy Fisher, who had a bad encounter with a large fish.

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher

1994

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding poster
NR

"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 3. While hiding from his mother Tabitha, Tom Kitten got caught by two rats who wants to turn him into a nice pudding.

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding

1993

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck poster
8.0

"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 2. Tom Kitten and his sisters spoil the tea party of their mother Tabitha, while Jemina Puddle-Duck meets the most peculiar foxy gentleman.

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck

1993

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Two Bad Mice and Johnny Town-Mouse poster
NR

"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 7. Two stories about homes: the first tells about two mice creating havoc in a lovely dollhouse, while the second focuses on the friendship between a country mouse and a town mouse.

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Two Bad Mice and Johnny Town-Mouse

1996

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Pigling Bland poster
NR

"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 6. Pigling Bland is a young pig who is forced to leave home, along with his brother Alexander, when his mother realizes that she is unable to feed all eight of her piglets. Pigling Bland becomes separated from Alexander and gets hopelessly lost.

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Pigling Bland

1994

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester poster
NR

"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 4. An old, ill tailor struggles to finish the beautiful coat he promised to the mayor for his wedding on Christmas Day, but the mice at his workshop gladly help him.

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester

1993

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs. Tittlemouse poster
NR

"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 8. The six fluffy babies of Benjamin Bunny are in great danger when Mr. McGregor put them in a sack, but the rabbit can manage it. At the same time, Mrs. Tittlemouse is in great danger as group of bees installed their hive in her very clean home.

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs. Tittlemouse

1996

Angels poster
5.5

Three guardian angels help three souls evaluate their past lives.

Angels

1992

Fools of Fortune poster
6.5

A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.

Fools of Fortune

1990

Cause of Death poster
NR

A QED drama special, based upon a real-life case of medical negligence. Within four days of being admitted to hospital with minor injuries, Ray Peters' son Mark is in a coma, and two weeks later he is dead. Suspecting critical mistakes by the doctors. Ray vows to find out the truth.

Cause of Death

1997

Series credits

Midsomer Murders poster
7.5

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

Midsomer Murders

1997

Agatha Christie's Poirot poster
8.2

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

Death in Paradise poster
7.4

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie.

Death in Paradise

2011

Father Brown poster
7.7

Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Father Brown

2013

Silent Witness poster
7.6

A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.

Silent Witness

1996

Loose Women poster
3.4

A panel of four women discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs to celebrity gossip.

Loose Women

1999

Heartbeat poster
7.1

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

Heartbeat

1992

Agatha Christie's Marple poster
7.8

The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

A Touch of Frost poster
7.6

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

A Touch of Frost

1992

New Tricks poster
7.3

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.

New Tricks

2004

Screen Two poster
7.1

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

Screen Two

1985

No artwork available
4.5

The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently airs on weekday afternoons. The show's main focus is the "Best of British" theme with many of the shows' segments focusing on fashion, health, nature, cookery and animals.

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

2007

Lewis poster
7.6

Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.

Lewis

2007

Jeeves and Wooster poster
8.1

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.

Jeeves and Wooster

1990

Brassic poster
8.3

A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in suburban northern England. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, their dealing and stealing is catching up with them and a whole load of trouble is heading their way.

Brassic

2019

The Hollow Crown poster
7.4

A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.

The Hollow Crown

2012

The Tower poster
6.8

A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing. Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths.

The Tower

2021

Rebellion poster
7.0

A group of young men and women in Dublin in 1916 are embroiled in a fight for independence during the Easter Rising. The story begins with the outbreak of World War I. As expectations of a short and glorious campaign are dashed, social stability is eroded and Irish nationalism comes to the fore. The tumultuous events that follow are seen through the eyes of a group of friends from Dublin, Belfast and London as they play vital and conflicting roles in the narrative of Ireland's independence.

Rebellion

2016

I, Jack Wright poster
5.3

Explosive events unfold after Wright family patriarch Jack is discovered dead from a supposed suicide, leaving his immediate family utterly devastated.

I, Jack Wright

2025

Falling poster
2.2

A nun and priest, each dedicated to their religious calling, unexpectedly fall in love and must confront what this means for their vows and faith.

Falling

2026

The Last Detective poster
7.8

"Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged determination have won him legions of loyal fans.

The Last Detective

2003

Always and Everyone poster
9.5

A team of doctors are committed to working on the frontline at the Accident and Emergency Department of St Victor's in Manchester. Young, dedicated, and idealistic, they're driven by the desire to give the best service possible. Their reward is neither money nor prestige, but in making a difference.

Always and Everyone

1999

Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again poster
7.0

Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again was a 1989 TV mini-series based on the Judith Krantz novel, Till We Meet Again. It starred Mia Sara, Bruce Boxleitner, Hugh Grant and Courteney Cox.

Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again

1989

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends poster
6.4

Nine animated stories based on the original Peter Rabbit books by Beatrix Potter.

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

1992

Q.E.D poster
6.0

Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum, Latin for "that which was to be demonstrated") was the name of a series of BBC popular science documentary films which aired in the United Kingdom from 1982 to 1999. Running in a half-hour peak-time slot on the BBC's primary mass-audience channel BBC1, the series had a more populist and general interest agenda than the long-running Horizon series which aired on the more specialist channel BBC2. Horizon could often be difficult for a scientific novice, requiring a modicum of background knowledge beyond the reaches of many viewers, so Q.E.D. was a more approachable way of introducing scientific stories.

Q.E.D

1982

The Virtues poster
7.9

Joseph falls into despair when his nine-year-old son Shea leaves for Australia with his ex Debbie. Suffering the hangover from hell, he walks away from his present life and boards a boat bound for Ireland to confront memories from his childhood.

The Virtues

2019

Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant poster
6.1

The four-part drama series will tell the story of Cary Grant’s life, from his humble beginnings as Archie Leach in Bristol, England to the Hollywood leading man he became.

Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant

2023

Big Mood poster
5.8

Maggie and Eddie spent their 20s living in each other's pockets, but the closer they get to the new decade Maggie makes an unwelcome return as Eddie questions their friendship and whether he'll survive in the future.

Big Mood

2024

Fallen Angel poster
4.5

Fallen Angel is an ITV series broadcast on 11–13 March 2007 based on the Roth Trilogy of novels by Andrew Taylor. It tells the story of Rosie Byfield, a clergyman's daughter, who grows up to be a psychopathic killer. It has a unique narrative that moves backwards in time as it uncovers the layers of Rosie's past.

Fallen Angel

2007

No artwork available
NR

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

Heartland

—

No artwork available
NR

Devised by former teacher turned playwright, John Godber, this 10-part BBC2 drama series from Pebble Mill focussed on a collection of staff members working in an impoverished, yet typical comprehensive school – the David Lloyd George School – which was struggling to maintain educational standards.

Chalkface

1991

No artwork available
NR

Two-part psychological drama from ITV1, aired over consecutive nights.

Too Good to Be True

2003

Colour Blind poster
6.3

A gritty period drama set in industrial Tyneside during World War I. Life for the McQueen family is turned upside down when daughter Bridget comes home with a black husband.

Colour Blind

1998