Rosaleen Linehan

Rosaleen Philomena Linehan (née McMenamin;[1] born 1 June 1937) is an Irish stage, screen, and television actress.

She joined UCD Dramsoc on her first day of college and started acting professionally within two years of leaving the university.

She was nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Kate in Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa at the 1992 Tony Awards.

[3] In film, she has appeared as Nurse Callan in Ulysses, May Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977), Aunt Fitzeustace in Fools of Fortune, Mrs. Canning in The Butcher Boy, Peggy Owens in About Adam, Mrs Matson in The Hi-Lo Country, and Millie O'Dowd in The Matchmaker.

In television, she was a voice artist on the Irish language children's TV series Inis Cúil in 2005 and appeared in Hugh Leonard's BBC sitcom Me Mammy.