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.
Movie | Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen | Narrator | 2018-12-31 |
Movie | Ethel & Ernest | Ethel Briggs (voice) | 2016-10-15 |
Movie | Two Men in Town | Emily Smith | 2014-05-07 |
Movie | Mary and Martha | Martha | 2013-03-01 |
Series | Vera | DCI Vera Stanhope | 2011-05-01 |
Movie | My Angel | Headmistress | 2011-12-09 |
Series | Downton Abbey | Vera | 2010-09-26 |
Movie | The Calling | Sister Ignatious | 2010-04-23 |
Movie | Dead Man Running | Mother | 2009-01-29 |
Movie | Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too | Mama Heffalump (voice) | 2009-04-07 |
Movie | London River | Elisabeth | 2009-02-09 |
Movie | Clubland | Jean | 2007-06-28 |
Movie | Atonement | Grace Turner | 2007-02-27 |
Series | War and Peace | Márja Dmitrijewna Achrosímowa | 2007-10-21 |
Series | The New Adventures of Old Christine | Unknown | 2006-03-13 |
Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
Movie | Mysterious Creatures | Wendy Ainscow | 2006-10-29 |
Movie | Pooh's Heffalump Movie | Mama Heffalump (voice) | 2005-02-11 |
Movie | Pride & Prejudice | Mrs. Bennet | 2005-09-16 |
Movie | On a Clear Day | Joan | 2005-08-18 |
Movie | Piccadilly Jim | Nesta Pett | 2004-11-01 |
Movie | Belonging | Jess Copplestone | 2004-09-12 |
Movie | A Way of Life | Annette | 2004-11-12 |
Movie | Beyond the Sea | Polly Cassotto | 2004-11-16 |
Movie | The Sleeping Dictionary | Aggie | 2003-01-31 |
Movie | Blizzard | Aunt Millie | 2003-05-15 |
Series | Between The Sheets | Hazel Delany | 2003-11-17 |
Movie | The Yellow Bird | Mrs. Louise Tutwiler | 2002-06-06 |
Movie | Pumpkin | Judy Romanoff | 2002-06-28 |
Movie | Undertaking Betty | Betty Rhys-Jones | 2002-12-04 |
Movie | Sonny | Jewel | 2002-10-26 |
Series | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | Auguste Rottgen-van Pels | 2001-05-20 |
Movie | Lovely & Amazing | Jane Marks | 2001-08-31 |
Movie | On the Nose | Mrs. Delaney | 2001-10-23 |
Movie | Daddy and Them | Julia Montgomery | 2001-10-26 |
Movie | Saving Grace | Grace Trevethyn | 2000-01-24 |
Movie | RKO 281 | Louella Parsons | 2000-04-07 |
Series | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Unknown | 1999-09-20 |
Movie | Music from Another Room | Grace Swan | 1998-04-24 |
Movie | Night Train | Alice Mooney | 1998-01-01 |
Movie | Girls' Night | Dawn Wilkinson | 1998-06-26 |
Movie | Inside the Golden Statue | Self | 1998-01-01 |
Movie | Little Voice | Mari Hoff | 1998-11-05 |
Movie | In the Winter Dark | Ida Stubbs | 1998-09-10 |
Series | So Graham Norton | Unknown | 1998-07-03 |
Movie | Remember Me? | 1997-01-02 | |
Movie | Secrets & Lies | Cynthia Rose Purley | 1996-05-24 |
Series | The Frank Skinner Show | Unknown | 1995-09-10 |
Series | Outside Edge | 1994-03-24 | |
Series | GMTV | Unknown | 1993-01-01 |
Series | The Buddha of Suburbia | Margaret Amir | 1993-11-03 |
Movie | The Bullion Boys | Gwen | 1993-10-24 |
Series | Maigret | Unknown | 1992-02-09 |
Movie | A River Runs Through It | Mrs. Maclean | 1992-10-09 |
Movie | The Witches | Mrs Jenkins | 1990-05-25 |
Series | The Labours of Erica | 1989-03-13 | |
Series | Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story | Ticki Tocquet | 1989-04-30 |
Series | The Storyteller | Unknown | 1988-05-15 |
Movie | Claws | Sylvia | 1987-10-04 |
Series | The Mysteries | Mary Magdalene / Mary | 1985-12-22 |
Series | Chance in a Million | Alison Little | 1984-09-10 |
Movie | Henry VI Part 1 | Joan La Pucelle | 1983-01-02 |
Movie | King Lear | Cordelia | 1982-09-19 |
Movie | Mike Leigh: Making Plays | Self | 1982-09-04 |
Movie | Say No to Strangers | 1981-01-01 | |
Series | Yes Minister | Unknown | 1980-02-25 |
Movie | The Imitation Game | 1980-04-24 | |
Movie | Grown-Ups | Gloria | 1980-11-27 |
Series | Tales of the Unexpected | Unknown | 1979-03-24 |
Series | Rumpole of the Bailey | Unknown | 1975-12-17 |
Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |