Her family moved back to Ireland eight years later, whereupon her father found success as the director of My Left Foot,[4] in which Sheridan plays the younger sister of lead actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
Her thesis short film Patterns won several international film festival awards, including Clermont-Ferrand, Cork, Galway, Dresden, Aspen, and Chicago, and her next short, The Case of Majella McGinty, about a little girl who escapes her stressful life by crawling into a suitcase,[6] received festival awards at Foyle, Cork, San Francisco, Cologne, and Worldfest Houston.
[7] The first feature film Sheridan directed was 2001's Disco Pigs, Enda Walsh's screen adaptation of his own play, starring Cillian Murphy and Elaine Cassidy[8] as teenagers in a lifelong, obsessive, antisocial friendship.
film is 2007's August Rush, which stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Keri Russell as star-crossed lovers and musicians, Freddie Highmore as their orphaned musical prodigy offspring, and Robin Williams as a Faginesque character.
The Irish Times criticized the film as "bounc(ing) around between so many forms, moods and genres that it proves impossible to get a handle on,"[10] while Variety called it "utterly predictable, but with moments of genuine charm.