Brenda Blethyn

Acting · Born 1946-02-20 in Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK

Biography

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)…

Filmography

• A River Runs Through It as Mrs. Maclean
• The Witches as Mrs Jenkins
• Pride & Prejudice as Mrs. Bennet
• Atonement as Grace Turner
• Secrets & Lies as Cynthia Rose Purley
• Saving Grace as Grace Trevethyn
• Undertaking Betty as Betty Rhys-Jones
• Girls' Night as Dawn Wilkinson
• Beyond the Sea as Polly Cassotto
• Little Voice as Mari Hoff

TV

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Linnie Malcolm
• Yes Minister
• The Storyteller as Storyteller's Wife
• The One Show as Self - Guest
• Tales of the Unexpected as Carol Hutchins
• Chance in a Million as Alison Little
• Rumpole of the Bailey as Pauline
• The New Adventures of Old Christine as Angela Kimble
• Between The Sheets as Hazel Delany
• The Buddha of Suburbia as Margaret Amir