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Maureen O’Hara
American actress
Also known as: Maureen FitzSimons
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- Byname of:
- Maureen FitzSimons
- Born:
- August 17, 1920, Rathmines and Rathgar township, County Dublin, Ireland
- Awards And Honors:
- Academy Award (2015)
- Honorary Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (2015)
Maureen O’Hara (born August 17, 1920, Rathmines and Rathgar township, County Dublin, Ireland—died October 24, 2015, Boise, Idaho, U.S.) Irish-American actress known for her portrayals of willful women. FitzSimons was the second of six children born to the manager of a hat manufacturer and his wife, a fashion designer and sometime opera singer and actress. She began acting as a child, and, after a series of victories in amateur acting contests, she was hired to perform plays on the Irish national radio station. In 1934 she was accepted to the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, where she spent the following three ...(100 of 585 words)