Born
20 February 1946 (80)
Place of Birth
Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK
Also known as
Brenda Anne Bottle
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 R...
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.
Dragonfly
2025
Vera, Farewell Pet
2025
Charlotte
2022
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
2018
Ethel & Ernest
2016
Two Men in Town
2014
Mary and Martha
2013
My Angel
2011
The Many Faces of... Michael Caine
2011
The Calling
2010
My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Super Duper Super Sleuths
2010
Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too
2009
London River
2009
Dead Man Running
2009
Clubland
2007
Atonement
2007
Mysterious Creatures
2006
Pride & Prejudice
2005
On a Clear Day
2005
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
2005
Beyond the Sea
2004
A Way of Life
2004
Piccadilly Jim
2004
Belonging
2004
Blizzard
2003
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
2003
The Sleeping Dictionary
2003
Undertaking Betty
2002
Sonny
2002
Lovely & Amazing
2002
Pumpkin
2002
The Yellow Bird
2002
Daddy and Them
2001
On the Nose
2001
Saving Grace
2000
RKO 281
1999
Little Voice
1998
In the Winter Dark
1998
Girls' Night
1998
Music from Another Room
1998