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.
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Strawberry Fields Forever
as Grannie Nellie
King of the Teds
as Nina
A Woman of Substance
as Older Emma Harte
Dragonfly
as Elsie
Vera, Farewell Pet
as Herself / Vera
Charlotte
as Grossmama (voice)
Kate & Koji
as Kate Abbott
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
as Narrator
Ethel & Ernest
as Ethel Briggs (voice)
Two Men in Town
as Emily Smith
Mary and Martha
as Martha
Playhouse Presents
as Nina
My Angel
as Headmistress
Vera
as DCI Vera Stanhope
The Calling
as Sister Ignatious
My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Super Duper Super Sleuths
as Mama Heffalump (voice)
Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too
as Mama Heffalump (voice)
London River
as Elisabeth
Dead Man Running
as Mother
War and Peace
as Márja Dmitrijewna Achrosímowa
Clubland
as Jean
Atonement
as Grace Turner
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
Mysterious Creatures
as Wendy Ainscow
The One Show
as Self - Guest
The New Adventures of Old Christine
as Angela Kimble
Pride & Prejudice
as Mrs. Bennet
On a Clear Day
as Joan
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
as Mama Heffalump (voice)
Beyond the Sea
as Polly Cassotto
A Way of Life
as Annette
Piccadilly Jim
as Nesta Pett
The Best of So Graham Norton
as Self (archive footage)
Belonging
as Jess Copplestone
Between The Sheets
as Hazel Delany
Blizzard
as Aunt Millie
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
as Dr. Florence Mountfitchet (voice)
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
as Mrs. Fairgood (voice)
Undertaking Betty
as Betty Rhys-Jones
Sonny
as Jewel
Lovely & Amazing
as Jane Marks
Pumpkin
as Judy Romanoff
The Yellow Bird
as Mrs. Louise Tutwiler
V Graham Norton
as Self
Daddy and Them
as Julia Montgomery
On the Nose
as Mrs. Delaney
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
as Auguste Rottgen-van Pels
Saving Grace
as Grace Trevethyn
RKO 281
as Louella Parsons
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Linnie Malcolm
Little Voice
as Mari Hoff
In the Winter Dark
as Ida Stubbs
So Graham Norton
as Self - Guest
Girls' Night
as Dawn Wilkinson
Music from Another Room
as Grace Swan
Inside the Golden Statue
as Self
Night Train
as Alice Mooney
Remember Me?
as Shirley
Secrets & Lies
as Cynthia Rose Purley
The Frank Skinner Show
as Self
Outside Edge
as Miriam Dervish
The Buddha of Suburbia
as Margaret Amir
The Bullion Boys
as Gwen
GMTV
as Self
A River Runs Through It
as Mrs. Maclean
HBO First Look
as self
Maigret
as Unknown
All Good Things
as Shirley Frame
The Witches
as Mrs Jenkins
Screen One
as Gwen
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
as Ticki Tocquet
The Shawl
as Miss A
This Morning
as Self
The Storyteller: A Story Short
as The Storyteller's Wife
The Storyteller
as Storyteller's Wife
The Play on One
as Miss A
Claws
as Sylvia
The Mysteries
as Mary Magdalene / Mary
Chance in a Million
as Alison Little
Floating Off
as Janice
Dalgliesh
as Angela Foley
Death of an Expert Witness
as Angela Foley
Henry VI Part 1
as Joan La Pucelle
King Lear
as Cordelia
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
as Self
Grown-Ups
as Gloria
The Imitation Game
as Unknown
Yes Minister
as Unknown
Tales of the Unexpected
as Carol Hutchins
Rumpole of the Bailey
as Pauline
Playhouse
as Gloria
The Oscars
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner