Brendan O'Carroll (born 17 September 1955) is an Irish actor, comedian, director, producer and writer. He is best known for portraying foul-mouthed matriarch Agnes Brown on stage and in the BBC and RTÉ television sitcom Mrs. Brown's Boys. In 2015, O'Carroll was awarded the Irish Film and Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Irish television.
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Early life
Brendan O'Carroll was born on 17 September 1955, in Finglas, Dublin, the youngest of 11 children. His mother, Maureen, was a Labour Party TD and his father, Gerard O'Carroll, was a carpenter. His father died in 1962 when O'Carroll was seven, and his mother raised him and his siblings with little money. He attended Saint Gabriel's National School and left at the age of 12. He had a string of occupations, including waiter and milkman.
