Brenda Blethyn
Born February 20, 1946 (Age: 80)
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Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK
Biography
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.
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.
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Filmography
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The Many Faces of... Michael Caine
2011
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as
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Age: 65
Atonement
2007
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as Grace Turner
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Age: 61
Pride & Prejudice
2005
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as Mrs. Bennet
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Age: 59
On a Clear Day
2005
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as Joan
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Age: 59
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
2005
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as Mama Heffalump (voice)
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Age: 58
Beyond the Sea
2004
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as Polly Cassotto
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Age: 58
The Sleeping Dictionary
2003
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as Aggie
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Age: 56
Undertaking Betty
2002
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as Betty Rhys-Jones
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Age: 56
Sonny
2002
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as Jewel
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Age: 56
Lovely & Amazing
2002
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as Jane Marks
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Age: 56
Pumpkin
2002
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as Judy Romanoff
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Age: 56
The Yellow Bird
2002
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as Mrs. Louise Tutwiler
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Age: 56
Daddy and Them
2001
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as Julia Montgomery
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Age: 55
Saving Grace
2000
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as Grace Trevethyn
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Age: 53
Little Voice
1998
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as Mari Hoff
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Age: 52
In the Winter Dark
1998
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as Ida Stubbs
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Age: 52
Girls' Night
1998
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as Dawn Wilkinson
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Age: 52
Music from Another Room
1998
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as Grace Swan
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Age: 52
Inside the Golden Statue
1998
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as Self
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Age: 51
Night Train
1998
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as Alice Mooney
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Age: 51
Remember Me?
1997
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as Shirley
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Age: 50
Secrets & Lies
1996
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as Cynthia Rose Purley
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Age: 50
The Bullion Boys
1993
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as Gwen
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Age: 47
A River Runs Through It
1992
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as Mrs. Maclean
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Age: 46
The Witches
1990
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as Mrs Jenkins
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Age: 44
The Shawl
1989
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as Miss A
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Age: 43
The Storyteller: A Story Short
1988
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as The Storyteller's Wife
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Age: 42
Claws
1987
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as Sylvia
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Age: 41
Floating Off
1983
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as Janice
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Age: 37
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Say No to Strangers
1981
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as Policewoman
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Age: 34
Grown-Ups
1980
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as Gloria
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Age: 34
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Bedroom Farce
1980
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as Kate
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Age: 34
The Imitation Game
1980
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Age: 34