Irish actress Anna Manahan died 8 March 2009 of multiple organ failure. Born 18 October 1924 in County Waterford, Ireland, she won a Tony Award in 1998 for Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for her performance in The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Her only other Tony nomination was in the same category in 1969, for Lovers.
Much of her television work was on Irish television, but she did appear in the States in films and on television. Her genre roles included: Clash of the Titans (1981), All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993).
Manahan was married to Colm O’Kelly, a stage manager in a touring theatrical company, in the 1950s, but he died less than a year after they wed: he contracted polio after swimming in the Nile while the company was on tour in Egypt. She never remarried, and is survived by two brothers, Val and Joe.