Maureen O'Hara made a career in film at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Maureen O'Hara as Irish–American actress and singer (1920–2015).
Maureen O'Hara was born at Ranelagh in 1920. Her recorded nationality is Ireland.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Maureen O'Hara is described as writer, autobiographer and singer.
Maureen O'Hara is associated first and foremost with playing passionate but sensible heroines, often in Westerns and adventure films. Cinema keeps its people visible long after the industry that produced them has changed shape.
Her recorded fields of work are acting and singing.
Her work was formally recognised with the Academy Honorary Award, Bambi Award and Golden Boot Awards.
Working from Ireland shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 2015, at 95. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Worked as writer, autobiographer and singer
