Beloved ‘Home Alone 2’ Star Dead at 81: ‘The World Is Lesser for the Lack of Her’

Brenda Fricker, the actress best known to millions of fans as the Pigeon Lady in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York has died. She was 81.

Fricker’s agent, Phil Belfield, confirmed that the Ireland native died on Friday, July 17.

“We will never see her like again and the world is lesser for the lack of her,” Belfield said in a statement to the U.S. Sun. “I was honored to know, love and work with her and she will always have a place in my heart and in the heart of so many film and TV fans the world over.”

While younger audiences will always remember her performance opposite Macaulay Culkin in the beloved 1992 holiday sequel, Fricker had actually already cemented herself as one of Ireland’s most famous actresses.

In 1990, she made history as the first Irish actress to win an Academy Award, taking home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for the film, My Left Foot, where she starred alongside Daniel Day-Lewis.

Fricker appeared in dozens of film and television projects, including Angels in the Outfield, A Time to Kill, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Veronica Guerin and Albert Nobbs.

However, for most movie lovers, she’ll forever be remembered as the lonely woman who befriends Kevin McCallister in Home Alone 2.