Brenda Blethyn
Actor
Born February 20, 1946 in Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Strawberry Fields Forever
Grannie Nellie
King of the Teds
Nina
A Woman of Substance
Older Emma Harle
Dragonfly
Elsie
Vera, Farewell Pet
Herself / Vera
Charlotte
Grossmama (voice)
Kate & Koji
Kate Abbott
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
Narrator
Ethel & Ernest
Ethel Briggs (voice)
Two Men in Town
Emily Smith
Mary and Martha
Martha
Playhouse Presents
Nina
My Angel
Headmistress
Vera
DCI Vera Stanhope
The Calling
Sister Ignatious
My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Super Duper Super Sleuths
Mama Heffalump (voice)
Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too
Mama Heffalump (voice)
London River
Elisabeth
Dead Man Running
Mother
War and Peace
Márja Dmitrijewna Achrosímowa
Clubland
Jean
Atonement
Grace Turner
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Mysterious Creatures
Wendy Ainscow
The One Show
Self - Guest
The New Adventures of Old Christine
Angela Kimble
Pride & Prejudice
Mrs. Bennet
On a Clear Day
Joan
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
Mama Heffalump (voice)
Beyond the Sea
Polly Cassotto
A Way of Life
Annette
Piccadilly Jim
Nesta Pett
Belonging
Jess Copplestone
Between The Sheets
Hazel Delany
Blizzard
Aunt Millie
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
Dr. Florence Mountfitchet (voice)
The Sleeping Dictionary
Aggie
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
Mrs. Fairgood (voice)
Undertaking Betty
Betty Rhys-Jones
Sonny
Jewel
Lovely & Amazing
Jane Marks
Pumpkin
Judy Romanoff
The Yellow Bird
Mrs. Louise Tutwiler
V Graham Norton
Self
Daddy and Them
Julia Montgomery
On the Nose
Mrs. Delaney
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
Auguste Rottgen-van Pels
Saving Grace
Grace Trevethyn
RKO 281
Louella Parsons
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Linnie Malcolm
Little Voice
Mari Hoff
In the Winter Dark
Ida Stubbs
So Graham Norton
Self - Guest
Girls' Night
Dawn Wilkinson
Music from Another Room
Grace Swan
Inside the Golden Statue
Self
Night Train
Alice Mooney
Remember Me?
Shirley
Secrets & Lies
Cynthia Rose Purley
The Frank Skinner Show
Self
Outside Edge
Miriam Dervish
The Buddha of Suburbia
Margaret Amir
The Bullion Boys
Gwen
GMTV
Self
A River Runs Through It
Mrs. Maclean
HBO First Look
self
Maigret
All Good Things
Shirley Frame
The Witches
Mrs Jenkins
Screen One
Gwen
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Ticki Tocquet
The Shawl
Miss A
This Morning
Self
The Storyteller: A Story Short
The Storyteller's Wife
The Storyteller
Storyteller's Wife
The Play on One
Miss A
Claws
Sylvia
The Mysteries
Mary Magdalene / Mary
Chance in a Million
Alison Little
Floating Off
Janice
Dalgliesh
Angela Foley
Death of an Expert Witness
Angela Foley
Henry VI Part 1
Joan La Pucelle
King Lear
Cordelia
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Self
Grown-Ups
Gloria
The Imitation Game
Yes Minister
Tales of the Unexpected
Carol Hutchins
Rumpole of the Bailey
Pauline
Playhouse
Gloria
The Oscars
Self
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee