Brenda Blethyn


    Starbirth:
    February 20, 1946
Birthplace:
Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK
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Overview

Brenda Anne Blethyn is an English actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. Blethyn has received two Academy Award nominations, two SAG Award nominations, two Emmy Award nominations and three Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one. In addition, she has won a BAFTA, an Empire Award and a Golden Lion, and has earned a Theater World Award and both a Critics' Circle Theatre Award and a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for her theatrical work. Born into a working class home in Ramsgate, Kent, Blethyn pursued an administrative career until her early 30s before enrolling in the Guildford School of Acting after the dissolution of her marriage in 1973. She subsequently joined the Royal National Theatre and received credits for her performances in Troilus and Cressida (1976) and Mysteries (1979). In 1981, Blethyn earned her first critical acclaim for Steaming. In 1980, Blethyn made her television debut in Mike Leigh's film Grown-Ups; then, after a modest number of guest spots in several productions, in the mid-1980s she garnered leading roles in the short-living sitcoms Chance in a Million and The Labours of Erica. Having followed her big screen debut with smaller supporting roles in films such as The Witches (1990) and A River Runs Through It (1992), she made her real cinema breakthrough with her role in the 1996 dramedy Secrets & Lies, for which she received rave reviews. Blethyn has since appeared in an eclectic range of films, including independent comedies such as Saving Grace (2000), Plots with a View (2002) and Clubland (2007), music-themed films like Little Voice (1998) and Beyond the Sea (2004) and big-budget dramas such as Pride & Prejudice (2005) and Atonement (2007). In addition, Blethyn has appeared in television productions including The Buddha of Suburbia (1993), Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001), Belonging (2004) and War and Peace (2007). Her most recent leading role in TV drama is the title role in Vera (2011), playing Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brenda Blethyn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


MOVIECHARACTERYEAR
Charlotte Grossmama (voice) 2021
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen Narrator 2018
Ethel & Ernest Ethel Briggs (voice) 2016
Two Men in Town Emily Smith 2014
Mary and Martha Martha 2013
My Angel Headmistress 2011
The Many Faces of... Michael Caine 2011
The Calling Sister Ignatious 2010
Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too Mama Heffalump (voice) 2009
London River Elisabeth 2009
Dead Man Running Mother 2009
Atonement Grace Turner 2007
Clubland Jean 2007
Mysterious Creatures Wendy Ainscow 2006
Pride & Prejudice Mrs. Bennet 2005
On a Clear Day Joan 2005
Pooh's Heffalump Movie Mama Heffalump (voice) 2005
Beyond the Sea Polly Cassotto 2004
A Way of Life Annette 2004
Piccadilly Jim Nesta Pett 2004
Belonging Jess Copplestone 2004
Blizzard Aunt Millie 2003
The Sleeping Dictionary Aggie 2003
Undertaking Betty Betty Rhys-Jones 2002
Sonny Jewel 2002
Pumpkin Judy Romanoff 2002
The Yellow Bird Mrs. Louise Tutwiler 2002
Daddy and Them Julia Montgomery 2001
On the Nose Mrs. Delaney 2001
Lovely & Amazing Jane Marks 2001
RKO 281 Louella Parsons 2000
Saving Grace Grace Trevethyn 2000
Little Voice Mari Hoff 1998
In the Winter Dark Ida Stubbs 1998
Girls' Night Dawn Wilkinson 1998
Music from Another Room Grace Swan 1998
Inside the Golden Statue Self 1998
Night Train Alice Mooney 1998
Remember Me? 1997
Secrets & Lies Cynthia Rose Purley 1996
The Bullion Boys Gwen 1993
A River Runs Through It Mrs. Maclean 1992
The Witches Mrs Jenkins 1990
The Shawl Miss A 1989
Claws Sylvia 1987
Henry VI Part 1 Joan La Pucelle 1983
King Lear Cordelia 1982
Mike Leigh: Making Plays Herself 1982
Say No to Strangers 1981
Grown-Ups Gloria 1980
Bedroom Farce Kate 1980
The Imitation Game 1980
Strawberry Fields Forever Grannie Nellie
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The One Show Self - Guest <mt>
Chance in a Million Alison Little <mt>
The New Adventures of Old Christine Angela Kimble <mt>
Yes Minister <blank> <mt>
The Storyteller Storyteller's Wife <mt>
The Labours of Erica <blank> <mt>
The Buddha of Suburbia Margaret Amir <mt>
So Graham Norton Self - Guest <mt>
The Frank Skinner Show Self <mt>
Outside Edge <blank> <mt>
The Oscars Self <mt>
GMTV Self <mt>
Tales of the Unexpected Carol Hutchins <mt>
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Linnie Malcolm <mt>
Rumpole of the Bailey <blank> <mt>
Between The Sheets Hazel Delany <mt>
V Graham Norton Self <mt>
BBC Television Shakespeare <blank> <mt>
Maigret <blank> <mt>
War and Peace Márja Dmitrijewna Achrosímowa <mt>
Downton Abbey Vera <mt>
Vera DCI Vera Stanhope <mt>
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story Ticki Tocquet <mt>
Anne Frank: The Whole Story Auguste Rottgen-van Pels <mt>
Dalgliesh Angela Foley <mt>
The Graham Norton Show Herself <mt>
Kate & Koji Kate <mt>
The Mysteries Mary Magdalene / Mary <mt>
All Good Things Shirley Frame <mt>
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