Niamh Cusack
Irish actress
Nearly good enough.
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Fairly decent bloke.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗
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Funny, impatient, annoying.
Trying quite hard.
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Working in a bottle factory, which lasted one day, and the Radio 1 breakfast show.
When I changed the toner cartridge in my printer all on my own – that was a day of pure euphoria.
Throat and neck cancer in 2018. They told me six to eight months if it hadn’t been caught.
A drummer in a famous band or an astronaut.
A sense of what’s right, a few quid and some nice paintings.
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