Catherine Cusack

Catherine Cusack (born 21 December 1968) is a British actress.

Cusack was born on 21 December 1968 in London, the half-sister of the actresses Sinéad Cusack, Sorcha Cusack and Niamh Cusack, and the fourth daughter of the Irish actor Cyril Cusack.

Catherine's mother was her father's long-term mistress, Mary Rose Cunningham; Catherine was their only child together.

Her parents married in 1979 after the death of her father's first wife.

She is half-sister to theatre producer Pádraig Cusack and television producer Paul Cusack.

She was accepted to study at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, but became a stage manager at the Tricycle Theatre in London.

She made her professional debut in Brendan Behan's play The Hostage before making her television debut in the Doctor Who serial Paradise Towers (1987).

She performed on stage with her half-sister Sinéad Cusack in Our Lady of Sligo by Sebastian Barry at the National Theatre in London, the Gate Theatre, Dublin and the Irish Arts Centre in New York.

Catherine Cusack is married to the British actor Alex Palmer.

She is best known for portraying Nanny Carmel Finnan in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street in 1992 and 1993.