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