
Brenda Blethyn
Biografía
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.
Filmografía
A Woman of Substance
Older Emma Harle (2026)
Dragonfly
Elsie (2025)
Vera, Farewell Pet
Herself / Vera (2025)
Charlotte
Grossmama (voice) (2022)
Kate & Koji
Kate (2020)
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
Narrator (2018)
Ethel & Ernest
Ethel Briggs (voice) (2016)
Two Men in Town
Emily Smith (2014)
Mary y Martha
Martha (2013)
My Angel
Headmistress (2011)
The Many Faces of... Michael Caine
(2011)
Vera
DCI Vera Stanhope (2011)
The Calling
Sister Ignatious (2010)
My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Super Duper Super Sleuths
Mama Heffalump (voice) (2010)
Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too
Mama Heffalump (voice) (2009)
London River
Elisabeth (2009)
Dead Man Running
Mother (2009)
Guerra y paz
Márja Dmitrijewna Achrosímowa (2007)
Clubland
Jean (2007)
Expiación, más allá de la pasión
Grace Turner (2007)
The Graham Norton Show
Self (2007)
Mysterious Creatures
Wendy Ainscow (2006)
The One Show
Self - Guest (2006)
The New Adventures of Old Christine
Angela Kimble (2006)
Orgullo y prejuicio
Mrs. Bennet (2005)
On a Clear Day
Joan (2005)
La película de Heffalump
Mama Heffalump (voice) (2005)
Beyond the Sea
Polly Cassotto (2004)
A Way of Life
Annette (2004)
Piccadilly Jim (...o cómo atrapar a un playboy)
Nesta Pett (2004)
Belonging
Jess Copplestone (2004)
Between The Sheets
Hazel Delany (2003)
Blizzard: el reno mágico
Aunt Millie (2003)
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
Dr. Florence Mountfitchet (voice) (2003)
El lenguaje de los sueños
Aggie (2003)
Funerarias S.A.
Betty Rhys-Jones (2002)
Sonny
Jewel (2002)
Lovely & Amazing
Jane Marks (2002)
Pumpkin
Judy Romanoff (2002)
The Yellow Bird
Mrs. Louise Tutwiler (2002)
V Graham Norton
Self (2002)
Daddy and Them
Julia Montgomery (2001)
On the Nose
Mrs. Delaney (2001)
La Historia de Ana Frank
Auguste Rottgen-van Pels (2001)
El jardín de la alegría
Grace Trevethyn (2000)
RKO 281: la batalla por «Ciudadano Kane»
Louella Parsons (1999)
Ley y orden: Unidad de Víctimas Especiales
Linnie Malcolm (1999)
Little Voice
Mari Hoff (1998)
In the Winter Dark
Ida Stubbs (1998)
So Graham Norton
Self - Guest (1998)
Girls' Night
Dawn Wilkinson (1998)
Con los ojos del corazón
Grace Swan (1998)
Pesel Ha'Zahav
Self (1998)
Night Train
Alice Mooney (1998)
Remember Me?
Shirley (1997)
Secretos y mentiras
Cynthia Rose Purley (1996)
The Frank Skinner Show
Self (1995)
Outside Edge
Miriam Dervish (1994)
The Buddha of Suburbia
Margaret Amir (1993)
The Bullion Boys
Gwen (1993)
El río de la vida
Mrs. Maclean (1992)
HBO First Look
self (1992)
Maigret
(1992)
All Good Things
Shirley Frame (1991)
La maldición de las brujas
Mrs Jenkins (1990)
Pobre niña rica
Ticki Tocquet (1989)
The Shawl
Miss A (1989)
The Labours of Erica
(1989)
This Morning
Self (1988)
The Storyteller: A Story Short
The Storyteller's Wife (1988)
El Cuentacuentos
Storyteller's Wife (1988)
The Play on One
Miss A (1988)
Claws
Sylvia (1987)
The Mysteries
Mary Magdalene / Mary (1985)
Chance in a Million
Alison Little (1984)
Who Dares Wins
Various (1984)
Floating Off
Janice (1983)
Dalgliesh
Angela Foley (1983)
Henry VI Part 1
Joan La Pucelle (1983)
King Lear
Cordelia (1982)
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Self (1982)
Say No to Strangers
Policewoman (1981)
Grown-Ups
Gloria (1980)
Bedroom Farce
Kate (1980)
Descifrando el enigma
(1980)
Sí, ministro
(1980)
Tales of the Unexpected
Carol Hutchins (1979)
Rumpole of the Bailey
Pauline (1975)
Playhouse
Gloria (1974)
The Oscars
Self (1953)
Premios Globo de Oro
Self - Winner (1944)
Strawberry Fields Forever
Grannie Nellie
Fools
GMTV
Self
King of the Teds
Nina