Brenda Blethyn
Born in Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK — Feb 20 1946
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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 unti…
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Linnie Malcolm
Vera
DCI Vera Stanhope
Playhouse
Gloria
Tales of the Unexpected
Carol Hutchins
The New Adventures of Old Christine
Angela Kimble
Rumpole of the Bailey
Pauline
The Oscars
Self
Pride & Prejudice
Mrs. Bennet
The Storyteller
Storyteller's Wife
HBO First Look
self
Atonement
Grace Turner
Yes Minister
Playhouse Presents
Nina
The Play on One
Miss A
Maigret
Dalgliesh
Angela Foley
War and Peace
Márja Dmitrijewna Achrosímowa
A River Runs Through It
Mrs. Maclean
A Woman of Substance
Older Emma Harle
Outside Edge
Miriam Dervish
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Ticki Tocquet
Chance in a Million
Alison Little
Music from Another Room
Grace Swan
The Witches
Mrs Jenkins
Between The Sheets
Hazel Delany
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
Auguste Rottgen-van Pels
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
Mama Heffalump (voice)
Secrets & Lies
Cynthia Rose Purley
The Buddha of Suburbia
Margaret Amir
The Sleeping Dictionary
Aggie
Charlotte
Grossmama (voice)
All Good Things
Shirley Frame
RKO 281
Louella Parsons
Little Voice
Mari Hoff
Blizzard
Aunt Millie
Beyond the Sea
Polly Cassotto
Pumpkin
Judy Romanoff
Lovely & Amazing
Jane Marks
Daddy and Them
Julia Montgomery
The Mysteries
Mary Magdalene / Mary
Mary and Martha
Martha
Ethel & Ernest
Ethel Briggs (voice)
Who Dares Wins
Various
Saving Grace
Grace Trevethyn
Inside the Golden Statue
Self
Kate & Koji
Kate
Dragonfly
Elsie
Piccadilly Jim
Nesta Pett
London River
Elisabeth
Belonging
Jess Copplestone
Girls' Night
Dawn Wilkinson
Sonny
Jewel
Remember Me?
Shirley
The Calling
Sister Ignatious
Fools
My Angel
Headmistress
Dead Man Running
Mother
The Yellow Bird
Mrs. Louise Tutwiler
On a Clear Day
Joan
The Bullion Boys
Gwen
Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too
Mama Heffalump (voice)
Clubland
Jean
A Way of Life
Annette
Undertaking Betty
Betty Rhys-Jones
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Self
King Lear
Cordelia
On the Nose
Mrs. Delaney
The Labours of Erica
My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Super Duper Super Sleuths
Mama Heffalump (voice)
Mysterious Creatures
Wendy Ainscow
Night Train
Alice Mooney
Henry VI Part 1
Joan La Pucelle
Two Men in Town
Emily Smith
In the Winter Dark
Ida Stubbs
Bedroom Farce
Kate
Grown-Ups
Gloria
The Many Faces of... Michael Caine
The Shawl
Miss A
Floating Off
Janice
Claws
Sylvia
The Imitation Game
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
Dr. Florence Mountfitchet (voice)
Say No to Strangers
Policewoman
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
Narrator
Vera, Farewell Pet
Herself / Vera
The Storyteller: A Story Short
The Storyteller's Wife
Strawberry Fields Forever
Grannie Nellie
King of the Teds
Nina