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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 20, 1946
Place of Birth
Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK
Also Known As
- Brenda Anne Bottle
- 布蘭達·布蕾辛
- برندا بلثین
Brenda Blethyn
1.5 Popularity
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) 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.
Known For
7.0
Elsie
Dragonfly
2025
0.0
Herself / Vera
Vera, Farewell Pet
2025
6.3
Grossmama (voice)
Charlotte
2022
6.0
Kate
Kate & Koji
2020
0.0
Narrator
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
2018
7.4
Ethel Briggs (voice)
Ethel & Ernest
2016
5.5
Emily Smith
Two Men in Town
2014
6.3
Martha
Mary and Martha
2013
4.0
Headmistress
My Angel
2011
🎬
0.0
The Many Faces of... Michael Caine
2011
Credits
Dragonfly
as Elsie
2025
7.0
Vera, Farewell Pet
as Herself / Vera
2025
0.0
Charlotte
as Grossmama (voice)
2022
6.3
Kate & Koji
as Kate
2020
6.0
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
as Narrator
2018
0.0
Ethel & Ernest
as Ethel Briggs (voice)
2016
7.4
Two Men in Town
as Emily Smith
2014
5.5
Mary and Martha
as Martha
2013
6.3
My Angel
as Headmistress
2011
4.0
🎬
The Many Faces of... Michael Caine
2011
0.0
Vera
as Vera Stanhope
2011
7.4
The Calling
as Sister Ignatious
2010
0.0
My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Super Duper Super Sleuths
as Mama Heffalump (voice)
2010
8.0
Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too
as Mama Heffalump (voice)
2009
6.6
London River
as Elisabeth
2009
6.7
Dead Man Running
as Mother
2009
5.8
War and Peace
as Márja Dmitrijewna Achrosímowa
2007
6.2
Clubland
as Jean
2007
5.1
Atonement
as Grace Turner
2007
7.6
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Mysterious Creatures
as Wendy Ainscow
2006
8.0
The One Show
as Self - Guest
2006
4.4
The New Adventures of Old Christine
as Angela Kimble
2006
7.1
Pride & Prejudice
as Mrs. Bennet
2005
8.1
On a Clear Day
as Joan
2005
6.3
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
as Mama Heffalump (voice)
2005
6.8
Beyond the Sea
as Polly Cassotto
2004
6.3
A Way of Life
as Annette
2004
6.4
Piccadilly Jim
as Nesta Pett
2004
6.5
Belonging
as Jess Copplestone
2004
5.6
Between The Sheets
as Hazel Delany
2003
4.5
Blizzard
as Aunt Millie
2003
5.9
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot
as Dr. Florence Mountfitchet (voice)
2003
6.9
The Sleeping Dictionary
as Aggie
2003
6.4
Undertaking Betty
as Betty Rhys-Jones
2002
6.1
Sonny
as Jewel
2002
5.0
Lovely & Amazing
as Jane Marks
2002
6.0
Pumpkin
as Judy Romanoff
2002
5.8
The Yellow Bird
as Mrs. Louise Tutwiler
2002
0.0
V Graham Norton
as Self
2002
5.0
Daddy and Them
as Julia Montgomery
2001
5.3
On the Nose
as Mrs. Delaney
2001
5.3
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
as Auguste Rottgen-van Pels
2001
7.4
RKO 281
as Louella Parsons
2000
6.4
Saving Grace
as Grace Trevethyn
2000
6.5
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Linnie Malcolm
1999
7.9
Little Voice
as Mari Hoff
1998
6.5
In the Winter Dark
as Ida Stubbs
1998
5.3
So Graham Norton
as Self - Guest
1998
6.3
🎬
Girls' Night
as Dawn Wilkinson
1998
6.8
Music from Another Room
as Grace Swan
1998
5.6
Night Train
as Alice Mooney
1998
7.0
Inside the Golden Statue
as Self
1998
6.3
Remember Me?
as Shirley
1997
4.0
Secrets & Lies
as Cynthia Rose Purley
1996
7.6
The Frank Skinner Show
as Self
1995
7.5
Outside Edge
1994
8.0
The Buddha of Suburbia
as Margaret Amir
1993
5.8
The Bullion Boys
as Gwen
1993
0.0
GMTV
as Self
1993
5.6
A River Runs Through It
as Mrs. Maclean
1992
7.0
HBO First Look
as self
1992
4.9
Maigret
1992
7.1
All Good Things
as Shirley Frame
1991
0.0
The Witches
as Mrs Jenkins
1990
6.9
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
as Ticki Tocquet
1989
4.5
The Shawl
as Miss A
1989
0.0
🎬
The Labours of Erica
1989
0.0
This Morning
as Self
1988
5.2
The Storyteller
as Storyteller's Wife
1988
8.2
The Play on One
as Miss A
1988
6.0
Claws
as Sylvia
1987
0.0
The Mysteries
as Mary Magdalene / Mary
1985
0.0
Chance in a Million
as Alison Little
1984
6.7
🎬
Who Dares Wins
as Various
1984
0.0
Floating Off
as Janice
1983
0.0
Dalgliesh
as Angela Foley
1983
6.9
Henry VI Part 1
as Joan La Pucelle
1983
7.5
King Lear
as Cordelia
1982
6.0
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
as Self
1982
8.0
🎬
Say No to Strangers
as Policewoman
1981
7.0
Grown-Ups
as Gloria
1980
6.7
🎬
Bedroom Farce
as Kate
1980
6.0
The Imitation Game
1980
7.1
Yes Minister
1980
8.3
Tales of the Unexpected
as Carol Hutchins
1979
6.7
Rumpole of the Bailey
as Pauline
1975
6.9
Playhouse
as Gloria
1974
7.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner
1944
7.2
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Fools
N/A
0.0
King of the Teds
as Nina
N/A
0.0
Strawberry Fields Forever
as Grannie Nellie
N/A
0.0
🎬
A Woman of Substance
as Emma Harle
N/A
0.0