The Ballroom of Romance is a British-Irish 1982 television film directed by Pat O'Connor based on a short story by William Trevor. It won the British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama.
Cover of the October 1982 RTÉ Guide with image from The Ballroom of Romance
Brenda Fricker is an Irish actress, whose career has spanned six decades on stage and screen. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television roles. 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). She also appeared in films such as The Field (1990), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993), Angels in the Outfield (1994), A Time to Kill (1996), Veronica Guerin (2003), Inside I'm Dancing (2004) and Albert Nobbs (2011).
Fricker at the 62nd Academy Awards in March 1990