- Pauline Flanagan
Pauline Flanagan (
June 29 ,1925 –June 28 ,2003 ) was aCounty Sligo ,Irish Free State -bornactress who had a long career on stage.Her family was deeply political and supported the Republican (anti-Treaty) side during the
Irish Civil War . Both of her parents served as Lords Mayor of Sligo. Pauline Flanagan had a brother who supported theIrish Republican Army (IRA) during theIrish Civil War . She was good friends with fellow actressesJoan O'Hara (with whom she attended an Ursuline Convent school in Sligo) and the English-born Irish actressPaddy Croft .Flanagan was close friends with British playwright
Harold Pinter , whom she met while he was a young actor touring with the company of noted Shakespearean actor/managerAnew McMaster .She died one day before her 78th birthday of
heart failure following a battle withlung cancer .She is survived by her husband, George Vogel (whom she had married in 1958) and her two children. She is also survived by one sister, Maura McNally.
Awards
In 1997 she won an award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Jennifer Johnston's "Desert Lullaby", at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
In 2001 she won an
Olivier Award for her performance inFrank McGuinness ' "Dolly West's Kitchen".External links
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*Variety Staff. [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117889880.html?categoryid=25&cs=1 "Pauline Flanagan"] , "Variety (magazine) ",July 24 ,2003 .
*Interview with the Independent. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000531/ai_n14317453 "The Arts Theatre - Debut: Pauline Flanagan] .
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