Brenda Blethyn

DOB: 1946-02-20

DOD: -

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.

Starred In

1990
Movie

The Witches

2000
Movie

Saving Grace

2002
Movie

Undertaking Betty

2007
Movie

Atonement

2005
Movie

Pride & Prejudice

1996
Movie

Secrets & Lies

1998
Movie

Girls' Night

2004
Movie

Beyond the Sea

1998
Movie

Little Voice

2002
Movie

Pumpkin

2009
Movie

Dead Man Running

2002
Movie

Sonny

2004
Movie

Belonging

2005
Movie

On a Clear Day

2007
Movie

Clubland

2009
Movie

London River

1989
Movie

The Shawl

2000
Movie

RKO 281

2002
Movie

Lovely & Amazing

2001
Movie

On the Nose

2002
Movie

The Yellow Bird

1998
Movie

In the Winter Dark

1980
Movie

Grown-Ups

2013
Movie

Mary and Martha

1980
Movie

Bedroom Farce

2011
Movie

My Angel

2010
Movie

The Calling

2014
Movie

Two Men in Town

1983
Movie

Henry VI Part 1

1998
Movie

Night Train

1980
Movie

The Imitation Game

NaN
Movie

Fools

1993
Movie

The Bullion Boys

1997
Movie

Remember Me?

2016
Movie

Ethel & Ernest

1983
Movie

Floating Off

1987
Movie

Claws

2004
Movie

Piccadilly Jim

1982
Movie

King Lear

2001
Movie

Daddy and Them

2003
Movie

Blizzard

2004
Movie

A Way of Life

2022
Movie

Charlotte

NaN
Movie

King of the Teds

2025
Movie

Dragonfly

2006
Tv

The One Show

1980
Tv

Yes Minister

1992
Tv

Maigret

1953
Tv

The Oscars

1994
Tv

Outside Edge

1993
Tv

GMTV

2007
Tv

War and Peace

2011
Tv

Vera

1985
Tv

The Mysteries

1983
Tv

Dalgliesh

2020
Tv

Kate & Koji

1988
Tv

This Morning