The Oscar winner, who hails from Dublin s The Liberties, said this week that the festive season is generally quite a lonely time for her - and for many others.
Fricker told Ray D Arcy on RTÉ s Radio 1 how she usually gets through Christmas and the New Year. I would be lying if I said that it would be a nice and happy Christmas because I m one of those people, I m old and I live alone and it can be very dark, she said.
Brenda Fricker received an Oscar alongside Daniel Day-Lewis for her role in My Left Foot (1989). I just turn the phones off, put the blinds down. I pre record some good programmes and films and I have my dog and I get myself through it that way.
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Given this, some viewers might be wondering whether Hunt’s childhood was in any way similar.
This is not the case as Hunt is an American actress who was born in Morriston in New Jersey.
She was born on April 2, 1945, which makes the award-winning star 75-years-old.
Linda Hunt has had a long career on stage and screen so far (Image: GETTY)
Her father Raymond Davy Hunt was the vice president of Harper Fuel Oil while her mother was a piano teacher called Elsie Doying Hunt.
The family then moved to Westport in Connecticut where Hunt was raised along with her older sister.
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