Brenda Blethyn
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday20 February 1946 (80 years old)
Place of birthRamsgate, Kent, England, UK
Known credits103
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 …
A Woman of Substance
2026 · Older Emma Harte
Dragonfly
2025 · Elsie
Vera, Farewell Pet
2025 · Herself / Vera
Charlotte
2022 · Grossmama (voice)
Kate & Koji
2020 · Kate Abbott
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
2018 · Narrator
Ethel & Ernest
2016 · Ethel Briggs (voice)
Two Men in Town
2014 · Emily Smith
Mary and Martha
2013 · Martha
Playhouse Presents
2012 · Nina
My Angel
2011 · Headmistress
The Many Faces of... Michael Caine
2011
Vera
2011 · DCI Vera Stanhope
The Calling
2010 · Sister Ignatious
My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Super Duper Super Sleuths
2010 · Mama Heffalump (voice)
Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too
2009 · Mama Heffalump (voice)
London River
2009 · Elisabeth
Dead Man Running
2009 · Mother
War and Peace
2007 · Márja Dmitrijewna Achrosímowa
Clubland
2007 · Jean
Clubland
2007 · Writer
Atonement
2007 · Grace Turner
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Self
Mysterious Creatures
2006 · Wendy Ainscow
The One Show
2006 · Self - Guest
The New Adventures of Old Christine
2006 · Angela Kimble
Pride & Prejudice
2005 · Mrs. Bennet
On a Clear Day
2005 · Joan
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
2005 · Mama Heffalump (voice)
Beyond the Sea
2004 · Polly Cassotto
A Way of Life
2004 · Annette
Piccadilly Jim
2004 · Nesta Pett
The Best of So Graham Norton
2004 · Self (archive footage)
Belonging
2004 · Jess Copplestone
Between The Sheets
2003 · Hazel Delany
Blizzard
2003 · Aunt Millie
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
2003 · Dr. Florence Mountfitchet (voice)
The Sleeping Dictionary
2003 · Aggie
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
2002 · Mrs. Fairgood (voice)
Undertaking Betty
2002 · Betty Rhys-Jones
Sonny
2002 · Jewel
Lovely & Amazing
2002 · Jane Marks
Pumpkin
2002 · Judy Romanoff
The Yellow Bird
2002 · Mrs. Louise Tutwiler
V Graham Norton
2002 · Self
Daddy and Them
2001 · Julia Montgomery
On the Nose
2001 · Mrs. Delaney
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
2001 · Auguste Rottgen-van Pels
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