Sinead Cusack: A life
* 1948: Born to actors Maureen Kiely and Cyril Cusack in Dalkey
* 1959: Stage debut at the Olympia in Kafka's The Trial
* 1966: Stars in One for The Grave at The Abbey
* 1968: Gives up first child, Richard, for adoption
* 1975: Moves to London and joins the Royal Shakespeare Co
* 1978: Marries actor Jeremy Irons. Son Samuel is born
* 1984: Broadway debut in Cyrano De Bergerac
* 1985: Son Max is born the same year she gets first Tony nomination for Much Ado About Nothing
* 1992: Stars with Irons in Graham Swift's Waterland
* 1998: Best Actress for Critics Drama Award and Evening Standard Award for Our Lady of Sligo
* 2008: Another Tony nomination for Rock n'Roll
* 2012: News breaks of adoption of son Richard. The pair had already been united long before this.
* 2014: IFTA win for Best Supporting Film Actress for The Sea
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