• Tubridy Tonight guest Fionnula Flanagan is Lost star

Fionnuala Flanagan was born on December 10, 1941 in Dublin, Ireland. She is an Irish actress.

With her portrayal of Gerty McDowell in the 1967 film version of Ulysses, Flanagan established herself as one of the foremost interpreters of James Joyce. She made her 1968 Broadway bow in Brian Friel's Lovers then appeared in such Joycean theatrical projects as Ulysses in Nighttown and James Joyce's Women (1977).

The last-named project earned her "Critic's Circle" awards in Los Angeles and San Francisco; it was subsequently committed to film in 1988, with Flanagan repeating her portrayal of Harriet Shaw Weaver. A familiar presence in American television, Flanagan has appeared in several made-for-TV movies, among them The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975), Mary White (1977), The Ewok Adventure (1984) and A Winner Never Quits (1986).

She won an Emmy for her work as Clothilde in the 1976 network miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man. Fionnula Flanagan's weekly-series stints have included Aunt Molly Culhane in How the West Was Won (1977), which earned her a second Emmy nomination; Lt. Guyla Cook in Hard Copy (1987) and Kathleen Meacham, wife of police chief John Mahoney (another transplant from the British Isles) in Help (1990).

Her last movies include Transamerica (2005), Four Brothers (2005) and Slipstream (2007).

Credits by Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Filmography

• Perfection (2008)
• "Brotherhood" (10 episodes, 2006-2007)
• "Lost" (1 episode, 2007)
• Slipstream (2007)
• "Paddywhackery" (2007)
• The Payback (2006)
• Four Brothers (2005)
• "Revelations" (2005)
• Sexual Life (2005)
• Transamerica (2005)
• Man About Dog (2004)
• "Nip/Tuck" (1 episode, 2004)
• Blessed (2004)
• One of the Oldest Con Games (2004)
• "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1 episode, 2003)
• Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle (2003)
• Tears of the Sun (2003)
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
• "Enterprise" (1 episode, 2002)
• The Others (2001)
• For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000)
• A Secret Affair (1999)
• With or Without You (1999)
• Gioco, Il (1999)
• "Poltergeist: The Legacy" (3 episodes, 1998-1999)
• "Chicago Hope" (1 episode, 1999)
• "To Have & to Hold" (13 episodes, 1998)
• Waking Ned (1998)
• "Kings in Grass Castles" (1998)
• "Nothing Sacred" (1 episode, 1998)
• Paperlily (1998)
• Some Mother's Son (1996)
• "Murder, She Wrote" (4 episodes, 1987-1995)
• "Legend" (1 episode, 1995)
• 919 Fifth Avenue (1995)
• White Mile (1994)
• "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" (1 episode, 1994)
• "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1 episode, 1993)
• Money for Nothing (1993)
• "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1 episode, 1993)
• Mad at the Moon (1992)
• Final Verdict (1991)
• Death Dreams (1991)
• "Father Dowling Mysteries" (1 episode, 1990)
• "Beauty and the Beast" (2 episodes, 1990)
• "H.E.L.P." (1990)
• Columbo: Murder, a Self Portrait (1989)
• "Hunter" (1 episode, 1989)
• "Simon & Simon" (2 episodes, 1984-1988)
• "Hard Copy" (1987)
• P.K. and the Kid (1987)
• A State of Emergency (1986)
• A Winner Never Quits (1986)
• Youngblood (1986)
• "Cagney & Lacey" (1 episode, 1985)
• James Joyce's Women (1985)
• "Riptide" (1 episode, 1984)
• The Ewok Adventure (1984)
• Scorned and Swindled (1984)
• Reflections (1984)
• "Fame" (1 episode, 1984)
• Through Naked Eyes (1983)
• "Voyagers!" (1 episode, 1983)
• "Benson" (1 episode, 1982)
• Voyager from the Unknown (1982)
• "Trapper John, M.D." (1 episode, 1981)
• Mr. Patman (1980)
• Young Love, First Love (1979)
• "How the West Was Won" (11 episodes, 1979)
• "How the West Was Won" (1978)
• Mary White (1977)
• Nightmare in Badham County (1976)
• "Serpico" (1 episode, 1976)
• "The Bionic Woman" (1 episode, 1976)
• In the Region of Ice (1976)
• "Kojak" (1 episode, 1976)
• "Marcus Welby, M.D." (3 episodes, 1972-1976)
• "Medical Center" (1 episode, 1976)
• "Rich Man, Poor Man" (1976)
• "The Streets of San Francisco" (1 episode, 1976)
• "Police Story" (1 episode, 1975)
• The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975)
• The Godchild (1974)
• "Hec Ramsey" (1 episode, 1974)
• "Shaft" (1 episode, 1974)
• "The Rookies" (1 episode, 1974)
• "The New Perry Mason" (1 episode, 1973)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973)
• "Gunsmoke" (1 episode, 1972)
• "Mannix" (1 episode, 1972)
• "Bonanza" (1 episode, 1972)
• Sinful Davey (1969)
• Cold Comfort Farm (1968)
• "Callan" (1 episode, 1967)
• A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant (1967)
• "The Wednesday Play" (2 episodes, 1966-1967)
• Ulysses (1967)

Awards

• Emmy Outstanding Single Performance By an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Comedy or Drama Series "Rich Man, Poor Man" 1975 - 1976