Brenda Blethyn

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK, 1946-02-20

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1980	The Imitation Game		71
2	1980	Bedroom Farce	Kate	60
3	1980	Grown-Ups	Gloria	67
4	1981	Say No to Strangers	Policewoman	70
5	1982	Mike Leigh: Making Plays	Self	80
6	1982	King Lear	Cordelia	60
7	1983	Henry VI Part 1	Joan La Pucelle	75
8	1983	Floating Off	Janice	0
9	1987	Claws	Sylvia	0
10	1989	The Shawl	Miss A	0
11	1990	The Witches	Mrs Jenkins	69
12	1992	A River Runs Through It	Mrs. Maclean	70
13	1993	The Bullion Boys	Gwen	0
14	1996	Secrets & Lies	Cynthia Rose Purley	76
15	1997	Remember Me?		40
16	1998	Inside the Golden Statue	Self	63
17	1998	Night Train	Alice Mooney	70
18	1998	Music from Another Room	Grace Swan	57
19	1998	Girls' Night	Dawn Wilkinson	68
20	1998	In the Winter Dark	Ida Stubbs	56
21	1998	Little Voice	Mari Hoff	65
22	2000	Saving Grace	Grace Trevethyn	65
23	2000	RKO 281	Louella Parsons	64
24	2001	On the Nose	Mrs. Delaney	55
25	2001	Daddy and Them	Julia Montgomery	54
26	2002	The Yellow Bird	Mrs. Louise Tutwiler	0
27	2002	Pumpkin	Judy Romanoff	58
28	2002	Lovely & Amazing	Jane Marks	61
29	2002	Sonny	Jewel	51
30	2002	Undertaking Betty	Betty Rhys-Jones	61
31	2003	The Sleeping Dictionary	Aggie	65
32	2003	Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot	Dr. Florence Mountfitchet (voice)	69
33	2003	Blizzard	Aunt Millie	58
34	2004	Belonging	Jess Copplestone	56
35	2004	Piccadilly Jim	Nesta Pett	65
36	2004	A Way of Life	Annette	68
37	2004	Beyond the Sea	Polly Cassotto	62
38	2005	Pooh's Heffalump Movie	Mama Heffalump (voice)	68
39	2005	On a Clear Day	Joan	65
40	2005	Pride & Prejudice	Mrs. Bennet	81
41	2006	Mysterious Creatures	Wendy Ainscow	80
42	2007	Atonement	Grace Turner	76
43	2007	Clubland	Jean	52
44	2009	Dead Man Running	Mother	58
45	2009	London River	Elisabeth	67
46	2009	Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too	Mama Heffalump (voice)	67
47	2010	The Calling	Sister Ignatious	0
48	2011	The Many Faces of... Michael Caine		0
49	2011	My Angel	Headmistress	40
50	2013	Mary and Martha	Martha	64
51	2014	Two Men in Town	Emily Smith	55
52		Fools		0
53	2016	Ethel & Ernest	Ethel Briggs (voice)	74
54	2018	Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen	Narrator	0
55		Strawberry Fields Forever	Grannie Nellie	0
56	2022	Charlotte	Grossmama (voice)	65
57		King of the Teds	Nina	0
58	2025	Dragonfly	Elsie	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
3	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
4	1974	Playhouse	Gloria	70
5	1975	Rumpole of the Bailey		71
6	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Cordelia	60
7	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Joan La Pucelle	60
8	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Carol Hutchins	67
9	1980	Yes Minister		83
10	1983	Dalgliesh	Angela Foley	69
11	1984	Who Dares Wins	Various	0
12	1984	Chance in a Million	Alison Little	67
13	1985	The Mysteries	Mary Magdalene / Mary	0
14	1988	The Play on One	Miss A	60
15	1988	The Storyteller	Storyteller's Wife	82
16	1988	This Morning	Self	52
17	1989	The Labours of Erica		0
18	1989	Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story	Ticki Tocquet	45
19	1991	All Good Things	Shirley Frame	0
20	1992	Maigret		69
21	1993	GMTV	Self	56
22	1993	The Buddha of Suburbia	Margaret Amir	62
23	1994	Outside Edge		80
24	1995	The Frank Skinner Show	Self	75
25	1998	So Graham Norton	Self - Guest	63
26	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Linnie Malcolm	79
27	2001	Anne Frank: The Whole Story	Auguste Rottgen-van Pels	74
28	2002	V Graham Norton	Self	50
29	2003	Between The Sheets	Hazel Delany	53
30	2006	The New Adventures of Old Christine	Angela Kimble	70
31	2006	The One Show	Self - Guest	45
32	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
33	2007	War and Peace	Márja Dmitrijewna Achrosímowa	63
34	2011	Vera	DCI Vera Stanhope	74
35	2020	Kate & Koji	Kate	59

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