Brendan O'Carroll

O'Carroll is an Irish actor, comedian, director, producer and writer, born in 1955, best known for playing Agnes Brown, the foul-mouthed matriarch of the BBC and RTÉ sitcom Mrs. Brown's Boys. The Irish Film and Television Academy gave O'Carroll its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015 for contributions to Irish television. The novels include The Mammy, the first book about Agnes Browne, and The Chisellers, a darkly comic story of small-time hustlers in Dublin's working-class neighbourhoods.