Home Alone Pigeon Lady

Ever wondered what the pigeon lady from home alone 2.

Home alone pigeon lady. Eventually he realizes she is harmless after she helps free him when his foot is stuck between two rocks. Brenda received great acclaim for her oscar winning supporting performance as the determined mother of a son afflicted. The woman who played pigeon lady in home alone 2 an irish actress named brenda fricker isn t an american household name and pigeon lady is her most well known role in the states what many who.

The story of christy brown. What most people don t know is that the pigeon lady was played by now 73 year old irish actress brenda fricker who had a long and prolific film and television career both before and after home. Played by brenda fricker the central park pigeon lady taught kevin the real meaning of christmas.

In home alone 2. At first kevin mccallister was scared of her similar to kevin being scared of old man marley at first from the previous film due to seeing the pigeons swarming all over her. It wasn t long before she won over both kevin macaulay culkin and.

At some point in time the woman had a job a family and was in love with a man who eventually fell out of love with her. Over the years she became homeless and would tend to the pigeons in central park. The pigeon lady was a homeless woman who lived in new york city and only appears in the second film.

Like the previous two he even helps save kevin s life by bashing molly over the head before. She was honored with the inaugural maureen o hara award at the. Prescott is initially made out to be a possible villain or antagonist similar to that of old man marley and the pigeon lady only for him to be shown as kind and misunderstood.

In 1990 she became the first irish actress to win an academy award earning the award for best supporting actress for the biopic my left foot 1989. Lost in new york. As a result she refused to fall in love again and stopped trusting others.