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Brenda Blethyn

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  • 1946 - Present Day

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Brenda Anne Blethyn, OBE (born 20 February 1946) 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.

Birthday: 1946-02-20

Born At: Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK

Casted In:

A River Runs Through It
293
Saving Grace
2360
Atonement
4347
Pride & Prejudice
4348
War and Peace
5654
Beyond the Sea
6478
Little Voice
8545
Pumpkin
9719
The Witches
10166
Undertaking Betty
10918
Secrets & Lies
11159
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
13682
Clubland
18425
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
21485
Blizzard
22081
The Sleeping Dictionary
25988
Sonny
28028
Girls' Night
30003
Dead Man Running
32678
On a Clear Day
38344
London River
39358
Music from Another Room
39424
Belonging
41429
RKO 281
50008
Lovely & Amazing
50035
On the Nose
95669
Henry VI Part 1
106856
King Lear
119840
The Yellow Bird
122809
In The Winter Dark
125764
Mary and Martha
176339
Grown-Ups
187565
The Calling
228215
Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too
236833
My Angel
239285
Two Men in Town
254772
Remember Me?
265171
Mysterious Creatures
270558
Night Train
281224
Say No to Strangers
297638
The Imitation Game
324555
The Bullion Boys
366614
Between the Sheets
381016
Ethel & Ernest
413770
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
436012
Claws
455053
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
572460

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Clubland
18425
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