Maureen O'Hara



Maureen FitzSimons ( Millwall ( Dublin , Ireland ), August 17​​1920 ) is an Irish film actress. Her mother was a singer and dancer. She herself had been working on her twelfth as a radio announcer.

Maureen's parents for a time co-owners of the Irish Football Club Shamrock Rovers FC and Maureen had since childhood fan of this club and this has remained throughout her life. ==Biography [ edit] == She studied at the Abbey Theatre School in Dublin and made ​​his debut as an actress when she was fifteen. Three years later she made ​​her first film in London where she Charles Laughton was contracted. Her first starring role she played alongside Laughton in the British Hitchcock film " Jamaica Inn ".

She attended Charles Laughton to Hollywood and became famous for her role as his co-star in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939, director William Dieterle ). The turning point in her life was her encounter with John Ford . He had the reputation as a master of Hollywood westerns already established. He left O'Hara play in two western classics. In " Rio Grande "was the legendary pair Maureen O'Hara - John Wayne . seen on the big screen "for the first Big Jake ", the last film in which they played together, the time was the last film of Maureen O'Hara.Since more than thirty years was preceded in Hollywood, where she had played. Undiminished popularity exemplary housewives and ardent lovers, exotic beauties and seductive adventurers In 2000, she made ​​herself a moment bows for the role in " The Last Dance "by Kevin Dowling with Eric Stoltz . ==Filmography [ edit] ==