Sinéad Cusack

Sinéad Moira Cusack is an award-winning Irish stage, television and film actress. Her first acting roles were at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, before moving to London in 1975 to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has won the Critic's Circle and Evening Standard Awards for Sebastian Barry's Our Lady of Sligo and has received two Tony Award nominations: once for Best Leading Actress in Much Ado About Nothing, and again for Best Featured Actress in Rock 'n' Roll.

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SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED · S2, E3

The Taming of the Shrew with Morgan Freeman

Freeman first discovered Shakespeare in school in Mississippi. He went on to play the hero of this play – Petruchio – in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production in New York, set in the Wild West. Freeman notes this play has set the template for all of the battle-of-the-sexes comedies that have followed; many a romantic comedy has The Taming of the Shrew running through its veins.