Mary Wakefield Mary Wakefield

‘The family didn’t approve of acting’

Mary Wakefield meets Niamh Cusack and finds an actress full of contradictions

issue 28 February 2009

Mary Wakefield meets Niamh Cusack and finds an actress full of contradictions

It’s oddly exciting, upstairs at the Old Vic: there are actresses rushing to rehearsal; the burble of PR ladies schmoozing the press; the sense of a curtain about to rise. A bright new play. I smile, look around hopefully for my interviewee-to-be, the actress Niamh Cusack, but instead a handsome bearded chap appears in front of me.

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